Rakitzis, Athanasios C.Chakraborti, SubhabrataShongwe, Sandile CharlesGraham, Marien AletKhoo, Michael Boon Chong2020-08-262019-11Rakitzis, A.C., Chakraborti, S., Shongwe, S.C. et al. 2019, 'An overview of synthetic-type control charts : techniques and methodology', Quality and Reliability Engineering International, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 2081-2096.0748-8017 (print)1099-1638 (online)10.1002/qre.2491http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75915In this paper, we provide an overview of a class of control charts called the synthetic charts. Synthetic charts are a combination of a traditional chart (such as a Shewhart, CUSUM, or EWMA chart) and a conforming run‐length (CRL) chart. These charts have been considered in order to maintain the simplicity and improve the performance of small and medium‐sized shift detection of the traditional Shewhart charts. We distinguish between different types of synthetic‐type charts currently available in the literature and highlight how each is designed and implemented in practice. More than 100 publications on univariate and multivariate synthetic‐type charts are reviewed here. We end with some concluding remarks and a list of some future research ideas.en© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: 'An overview of synthetic-type control charts : techniques and methodology', Quality and Reliability Engineering International, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 2081-2096, 2019. doi : 10.1002/qre.2491. The definite version is available at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/qre.Markov chainShewhart chartSide‐sensitiveSteady‐state average run‐lengthSynthetic chartZero‐state average run‐lengthConforming run‐length (CRL)An overview of synthetic-type control charts : techniques and methodologyPostprint Article