Statistical Quality Control

                    STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL

This program delves into the planning, implementation and maintenance of
techniques and programs to help reduce costs, and determine machine &
process capabilities.

We study the various charting methods for data collection, plotting and
interpretation, and determination of appropriate corrective action to improve
those processes and increase productivity.

• Planning - product & process

• Basic steps in establishing control

• Training your people

• Records & reports

• Pareto Analysis

• Cause & Effect diagrams

• Responsibility for control - operator or inspector

• Analysis of Process Capability

• Collecting, plotting and analyzing the data

• Calculating average (X bar) and range (R)

• Standard Deviation & 6 sigma limits

• Charting for attributes using accept/reject criteria

• Charts for defectives (p & np charts)

• Charts for defects ( c & u charts)

• Short run SPC

• Precontrol

• GR&R studies

                                     SHORT RUN SPC

This seminar reviews conventional SPC techniques and discusses how
SPC can improve productivity and reduce total manufacturing costs in
your short run environment. The emphasis is on techniques designed for
short production runs and batch processes. Process capability measurements
will be explored along with other statistical tools.

Elements studied will be:

• Introduction to SPC

• Relationship of conventional SPC
  techniques and short run SPC

• Basic Statistical Techniques

• Data Collection

• Variables charting

• Attribute charting

• Chart interpretation

• Measuring capability

• Process Improvement

• GR&R Studies

                                                PRECONTROL

One popular tool available to industry today in their quest for maintaining stable
processes is Precontrol. Precontrol provides the operator with an easy-to-use
and easy-to-understand method of tracking their process.

Just a few years ago, the ratio of control chart users to precontrol practitioners
was 99:1, now that ratio has changed to 85:15 and growing. Major companies
such as Ford Motor Corp. are now accepting precontrol as a viable process
control tool.