4.11 Multivariate Statistical Process Control and Process Control, Using Latent Variables ☆

Databases containing process data collected in industry are becoming increasingly large. Practitioners frequently turn to these data to gain process understanding with the aim to improve the process, to establish procedures for process monitoring, and if possible to establish procedures for some form of process control in real time. The types of data required to address each one of these objectives as well as the types of models and procedures …