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Current version: Statit Express QC 5.4.1

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Statit Express QC Features


Process Management Charts
Additional Graphs
Graphic Capabilities
Statistics
Output Options
Data Access

Process Management Charts

[View a guide to selecting the most appropriate chart for your data]

Attribute Charts

Attribute charts help you begin your quality improvement process by presenting information on defect rates. These analyses help you understand which products and processes to prioritize for more detailed investigation with variable charts.

p Chart—Shows either the fraction or percent of nonconforming units in a sample.
np Chart—Shows the number of nonconforming units in each sample.
c Chart—Shows the number of nonconformities per inspection unit.
u Chart—Shows the number of nonconformities per inspection unit when the inspection unit changes.
Pareto—Displays a bar chart of discrete characteristics with the cumulative percentage of total superimposed (such as different types of defect categories.)

Variable Charts

Variable charts provide the investigative tools essential for continuous quality improvement. Rather than assessing only failure or nonconformance rates as with attribute charts, with variable charts both the data collection and analysis are refined to measure variability of parts and processes, even while they remain within defined acceptance ranges.

X-Bar—Used to assess the process mean. Each point on the chart represents the average of a subgroup.
X-Bar / Range—Subgroups of 2-30 can be used with X-Bar charts when limits are calculated based on range.
X-bar / S—There is no limit to subgroup size when limits are based on sigma. If the subgroup size varies, the computed limits will vary accordingly.
Individual—Individual observations are plotted directly on the chart.
Individual / Moving Range—The moving range chart is used to assess variability of processes which do not conform to natural subgroups.
Moving Range—The moving range chart is used to assess variability of processes which do not conform to natural subgroups.
Process Capability—This graph superimposes a normal curve over a histogram of the data, and displays numerous values such as Cp, Pp, Cpk, Ppk, CPU, CPL, both actual and estimated percent beyond specification, etc.
Phase Charting—Phase charting uses a categorical variable (such as machine operator, time, lot number of components) which can be helpful in identifying sources of variation.

Charts can display the following additional information:

  • Data Tips–point-and-click 'drill down' capabilities to explore charted results in more detail;
  • Data Table below the graph; and
  • Summary Information at bottom of page (single charts only).

Additional Graphs

The following graphs are provided in addition to attribute and variable charts:

  • Pie
  • Bars–clustered or stacked
  • Histogram
  • Probability Plot
  • Scatter Plot
  • XY Plot

Graphic Capabilities

Process management and other graphs can be interactively customized. Operations include:

  • Additional text, arrows, lines, boxes and circles can be interactively placed/edited;
  • Graphs can be moved/resized;
  • Text fonts, colors and styles can be modified;
  • Curve/Bar/Marker colors and styles can be specified; and
  • Legends can be moved and customized.

Graphs can be saved in the following formats:

  • Windows bitmap format (.BMP);
  • Windows metafile format (.WMF); and
  • Placed onto the clipboard in Windows metafile format.

Statistics

Descriptive Statistics
[View example]

Minimum
Maximum
Range
Mean
Median
Standard deviation
Standard error of the mean
Variance

Coefficient of Variation
Interquartile range
First Quartile
Third quartile
Skewness
Kurtosis
Percentiles

Frequency Tables

Statit Express QC can produce 1-way to n-way frequency and crosstabulation tables and multiple response tables.

Frequency tables show the distribution of the values of a variable with the number of occurrences of each unique value of the variable. Crosstabulation tables show combined frequencies for two or more variables.

Grouped Statistics
[View example]

Statit Express QC can display various statistics for dependent or analysis variables among various groupings in a sample or population. The groupings are determined by using categorical class variables; e.g., group the dependent variable Diameter by Operator and Machine.

The following statistics may be computed:

Minimum
Maximum
Range
Mean
Midrange

Coefficient of Variation
Standard deviation
Standard error of the mean
Variance
Sum

Output Options

Statit Express QC utilizes a Report window to facilitate the development and printing of reports which can contain text and graphics. Statistics output is directed to the Report window and users can enter/modify text and formatting interactively. The report window is very similar to the WordPad editor supplied with MS Windows.

Statit Express QC can read and save to following file formats:

  • Rich Text format files (.RTF)
  • MS Word 6.0 (*.doc)
  • Text files (.txt)–Graphs will not be saved.

Data, graphs and reports can all be previewed and printed.

Data Access

ODBC Data Sources

Users can use Statit Express QC's interactive Query Builder to read data from any ODBC Data Source. No knowledge of SQL is required.

Data Files

In addition to its ability to access data though ODBC, Statit Express QC can read and write data files in the following formats:

  • Statit Workspace (*.stw)
  • Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
  • Lotus 1-2-3 (*.wk*)
  • dBase, FoxPro, Clipper (*.dbf)
  • QuattroPro (*.wq*, *.wb*)
  • SAS (*.sd2, *.xpt)
  • SPSS (*.sav, *.por)
  • Stata (*.dta)
  • Comma Separated Values (*.csv)
  • Tab Delimited (*.txt)

Keyboard Entry

Data can be interactively entered and modified using the data grid built into Statit Express QC.

If you would like additional information, please call our Sales staff at (800) 478-2892 or send email to .