Have you ever wished your control charts were better? More effective and user-friendly? Easier to understand and act on? I’ll share some simple ways to make statistical process control (SPC) monitoring more effective in Minitab.

I worked for several years in a large manufacturing plant in which control charts played an important role. Virtually thousands of SPC charts were used to monitor processes, contamination in clean rooms, monitor product thicknesses and shapes, and equipment process parameters. Process engineers regularly checked the control charts of the processes they were responsible for. Operators were expected to stop using equipment as soon as an out-of-control alert appeared and report this incident back to their team leader.

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