Average run length (ARL)

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In sampling it is the average number of times a process is sampled and evaluated before a observing a shift in a process characteristic level. In item-to-item production it is the number of items produced before observing a shift in a characteristic level.

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I am the reliability expert at FMS Reliability, a reliability engineering and management consulting firm I founded in 2004. I left Hewlett Packard (HP)’s Reliability Team, where I helped create a culture of reliability across the corporation, to assist other organizations.

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