India, May 5 -- Manufacturing remains one of India's economic cornerstones, contributing nearly 17% to GDP and targeting to add more than Rs. 43,43,500 crore annually to the global economy by 2030. As the sector expands across automotive, electronics, and industrial production, expectations around quality, efficiency, and global competitiveness are rising in parallel. This is further reinforced by policy, with the Union Budget 2026-27 increasing the outlay for the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) to Rs. 40,000 crore to strengthen domestic production ecosystems.

Manufacturing operations heavily rely on statistical process control (SPC) to optimise production processes, but face limitations from sampling data. Sampling-ba...