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Rare Events in Manufacturing |
by Guy W. March, Professional Services
Director, MIDAS+ Statit Solutions Group
As I travel around to
different manufacturing sites, I often see signs that
say something like "45 days without a lost time
accident". But what do these signs tell us? From the
standpoint of improving our accident rate, not a lot.
There is no history and no idea if we are improving or
getting worse. But what happens if we can monitor
this process with a Statistical Process Control Chart?
If we did, we would be on the road to process
improvement!
What
charts are best to use?
Once you've read Guy's
article, you may want to view
our webinar recording on Rare Events in Manufacturing.
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| One Click to All Your Quality
Resources |
Statit has been in the business of helping
organizations improve their business processes, process
quality and bottom line results for more than 25 years.
Whether it's providing software solutions, training and
consulting services, or quality resources on our
website, Statit has helped thousands of customers along
their performance improvement journey. One
of the more widely-used areas on the Statit website is
the Quality Resource section: an area that includes many
helpful tips, videos and links for quality
professionals. We've highlighted some of the more
popular links below.
Recordings to many of the SPC seminars presented
by Statit are available in our Library
of Manufacturing Webinars. Most are 30
minutes to an hour in length and cover such topics
as Rational Subgrouping, Pareto and Paynter Chart
Analysis, First Pass Yield, just to name a few.
You can access this library at: http://www.statit.com/webinars/index_mfg.shtml.
The SPC Chart Guide provides
tips on the type of charts you should use depending
upon the type of data you've collected and your
sample size. Included is a decision matrix for
both attribute and variable data to aid you in
selecting the most appropriate chart type for
your data. http://www.statit.com/chartguides/chartguides_mfg.shtml
The SPC Overview provides the
downloadable PDF document, An Introduction to
Statistical Process Control Techniques. The preface
is written by Drs. Robert and Marilyn Hart, authors
of several books on Statistical Process Control.
http://www.statit.com/services/SPCOverview_mfg.pdf
Quality Practice Tips includes
dozens of articles written by industry experts,
statisticians and product experts. Articles cover
some of the hottest topics in the industry about
control charts, process capability studies, and
many more quality topics. http://www.statit.com/support/quality_practice_tips/sup_qptindex_mfg.shtml
If you can't find it on our web site, the Quality
Links page provides a quick access to
a comprehensive list of popular industry websites
including: American Society for Quality (ASQ),
On-line Statistics Handbook, the SPC Reading Room
and many more. http://www.statit.com/services/links_mfg.shtml
Let us know if you'd like to see something else in
our Quality Resources by sending email to info@statit.com.
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We are very excited to welcome two new staff
members: Steve Fullerton and Brian
Bergeron.
Steve has more than 25 years of experience with
the Statit products, ranging from the system internals
to application development. He was the technical lead
for the Statit technology at Statware and
Electroglas.
Steve has a broad technical
background including data analysis, system architecture,
data acquisition and integration. His education includes
a B.S. in Mathematics and a Master of Statistics from
the University of Utah.
Steve can be
contacted at sfullerton@statit.com.
His phone number is (541)
368-7409.
Brian has a B.S. from Portland State University
and has been involved in software sales for the last 22
years. He was with Intersolv/Serena software for
11 years selling application development tools and prior
to that he was with Instromedix, Inc. a medical
hardware/software company specializing in
transtelephonic medicine.
Brian can be
contacted at bbergeron@statit.com. His phone number is (503)
537-4060.
Both Steve and Brian are looking forward to
working with new and existing customers to help you
along your Quality Improvement
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Have a process improvement question? If so, submit a topic
request and we'll see that your topic
gets covered in an upcoming edition of the Statit Bulletin.
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| Adding Cpm to a Process Capability
Chart |
Q: How is Cpm calculated and what's
the best use for it?
A: Drawing charts and
graphs with process data helps the audience to visualize
the behavior of the process. Visual representations
may be insufficient to make decisions about whether
the process generating the data is performing in a way
that meets various requirements.
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