Acceptance sampling plans are practical tools for quality control applications, which involve quality contracting on product orders between the vendor and the buyer. Those
sampling plans provide the vendor and the buyer rules for lot sentencing while meeting their preset requirements on product quality. In this paper, we introduce a variables
sampling plan for unilateral processes based on the one-sided process capability indices
CPU (or
CPL), to deal with lot sentencing problem with very low fraction of defectives. The proposed new
sampling plan is developed based on the exact
sampling distribution rather than approximation. Practitioners can use the proposed
sampling plan to determine accurate number of product items to be inspected and the corresponding critical
acceptance value, to make reliable decisions. We also tabulate the required sample size
n and the corresponding critical
acceptance value
C0 for various
α-risks,
β-risks, and the levels of lot or process fraction of defectives that correspond to acceptable and rejecting quality levels.