Control Charts and Capability Analysis

Current business conversation often focuses on data and big data. Data are the raw information from which statistics are created and provide an interpretation and summary of data.
Current business conversation often focuses on data and big data. Data are the raw information from which statistics are created and provide an interpretation and summary of data.
Anthony Chirico1 describes how narrow-limit gauging (NLG, aka compressed limit plans) can reduce enormously the required sample size, and therefore the inspection cost, of a traditional attribute sampling plan.
Within maintenance management, the term MTBF (mean time between failures) is the most important key performance indicator after physical availability.
‘Process Capability: What It Is and How It Helps,” parts one,
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If Fyodor Dostoyevsky had been a mathematician, he might have written a book called Crime and Statistics. However, since “statistics” doesn’t have quite the same ring as “punishment,” it wouldn’t have sold as well.
This is part three of a three-part series.
Annalise Suzuki, director of technology and engagement at software provider Elysium Inc., spoke to Quality Digest about the importance of model-based definitions (MBD) for data quality, validation, and engineering
Everybody wants to design and conduct a great experiment! To find enlightenment by the discovery of the big red X and perhaps a few smaller pink x’s along the way.
Walter Shewhart, father of statistical process control and creator of the control chart, put a premium on the time order sequence of data.
Machine learning as a tool in your analytical toolkit can help accelerate the discovery of insights in data that can create a more efficient manufacturing process and drive innovation.
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