Processes with several streams in parallel are very common in industry. Filling operations, such as the ones found in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, or food and beverage industries are a typical example. The classical scheme for the statistical control of multiple-stream processes (MSP) is the group chart (Boyd, 1950). Its efficiency is impaired by its underlying model of the process not considering that part of the variation in MSP is common to all streams. In 1995, Mortell and Runger (M&R) proposed an alternative scheme which takes this fact into account. In the next year, Runger, Alt and Montgomery proposed another scheme. This dissertation proposes a third scheme for statistical control of MSP. The detailed mathematical model, the expressions for establishing the control limits, and the performance analysis here are original contributions. The probabilities of a signal and average run lengths in the case of shifts in the mean of one individual stream were obtained either analytically or by simulation and compared with the ones of M&R´s scheme. The results show the superiority of the proposed scheme for signaling shifts greater or equal to one standard deviation. For smaller shifts, neither scheme can be said to be really efficient. As to the scheme proposed by Runger et al. (1996), it is in some cases slower and in some cases just as fast as M&R`s, so the proposed scheme is the fastest of all. A number of extensions and open issues are indicated for future research.