“…However, the empirical distribution of PIwas not normal, which is an assumption commonly recommended in the literature [1,3,4,5,8], once it can cause serious errors in the calculation of I charts triggering false alarms (Type I errors) or misses (Type II errors).An adequate Box-Cox transformation (BCT) for normalization [2] is considered in some simulation studies that prove the efficiency and robustness of statistical estimators drivingto more robust control charts, in what regards the false alarm rate and the time required to detect the occurred changes [1,4,5,10,11].According to other studies the estimated control limits, under non-normality, may not be a serious problem (especially when we have light tails, moderate outliers and asymmetry), which made these type of Shewhart charts a robust tool [6,7,12,13,14,15].Despite the controversy of this assumption, we decided to obtain and compare I and MR charts for PI, before and after an adequate BCT, and also computing the limits based on average and on median of MR [12].…”