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Home » LMS » Statistical Process Control & Process Capability Course » Course Introduction » Course Introduction

by Steven Wachs 3 Comments

Course Introduction

Course Introduction

Section 1 Course Introduction

Lesson S01-01

Text: Section 1 pages 2

Duration: 4 minutes

Welcome to the SPC/Process Capability Training course!

The information presented here provides an important opportunity to strengthen our individual and collective knowledge, skills, and work processes to enable us to thrive in the global competitive arena.

Customers demand that we engineer, manufacture, and supply components and systems that are of world-class quality and reliability. To achieve this, products must be optimally designed to meet all performance requirements and maintain robustness in the wide variety of use environments they encounter.

Additionally, customers expect and demand absolute consistent performance from every unit we ship. This is best accomplished by an intense focus on understanding and minimizing variation in our products and the processes that produce them.

Traditional inspection procedures are no longer sufficient and do not drive us hard enough toward minimizing variation in important product characteristics. The methods that do drive us toward achieving high levels of process capability, supported by stable and consistent processes, are critical and are the focus of this program.

Introduction to the Course

Welcome and a little background and motivation for the material in this course.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/courses-accendoreliability-com/spc-process-capability/s01/spc-pc-s01a.mp4

Training Objectives

The key training objectives are summarized below:

  • Understand the importance of reducing variation in key characteristics
  • Implement control charting to assess process stability
  • Select appropriate control charts for a given application
  • Determine appropriate sampling plans and sample sizes
  • Interpret control chart signals and implement appropriate reaction plans
  • Assess process capability for new processes, relocations, process changes, and continuous improvement
  • Apply specialized charts when needed

Brief Course Overview

A quick rundown of what is included in the course.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/courses-accendoreliability-com/spc-process-capability/s01/spc-pc-s01b.mp4

 

Recommendations to Get the Most from this Course

With a little effort, you can master SPC & Process Capability

https://s3.amazonaws.com/courses-accendoreliability-com/spc-process-capability/s01/spc-pc-s01c.mp4

The course text is a 425 page PDF document and available for download here for registered students.

About Steven Wachs

Steven Wachs has 25 years of wide-ranging industry experience in both technical and management positions. Steve has worked as a statistician at Ford Motor Company where he has extensive experience in the development of statistical models, reliability analysis, designed experimentation, and statistical process control.

Comments

  1. Maja Mindoseva says

    February 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM

    Can I get the videos from this course ?

    Reply
    • Fred Schenkelberg says

      February 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM

      Hi Maja, the videos are available for the duration of the course, 6 months at the moment. They are not set up for downloading, yet you may download and keep referring to the participant’s guide and associated documents. cheers, Fred

      Reply
      • Maja Mindoseva says

        February 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM

        Thank you for the answer, Fred.
        All the best, Maja

        Reply

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  • Statistical Process Control & Process Capability Course
    • Module 1:Course Introduction
      • Lesson 1:Course Introduction
      • Contact Steven
    • Module 2:Variation Fundamentals
      • Introduction to Variation Fundamentals
      • Common Cause Variation & Normal Distribution
      • Control Chart Concept
      • In and Out of Control Concepts
      • What is Quality?
      • Viewing Data
      • Central Limit Theorem
      • Sources of Variation
      • Introduction to Process Capability
      • Exercise 1
      • Basic Statistics
      • Minitab Intro & Exercise 2
    • Module 3:Control Charts
      • Introduction to Control Charts
      • Constructing XÌ„ & R Charts
      • The Purpose of Charts
      • Minitab tutorial & Exercises 3 & 4
      • XÌ„ & S Charts and Individuals & Moving Range Charts
      • Exercise 5
      • Decisions
      • More Out of Control Signals
      • Reaction to Chart Signals
      • Sampling Considerations
      • Sample Size
      • Calculating Sample Sizes
      • Exercise 6
      • Control Charts Wrap-up
    • Module 4:Process Capability
      • Introduction to Process Capability
      • Proportion Nonconforming
      • Exercise 7
      • Capability Indices — Cp
      • Capability Indices — Cpk
      • Exercises 8 & 9
      • Normality
      • Data Transformations and Minitab
      • Distribution Fitting and Minitab
      • Exercise 10
      • Section 4 Summary
    • Module 5:Short Run Charts
      • Short Run Charts
      • Standardized DNOM Charts
      • DNOM Using Minitab
      • Exercise 11
    • Module 6:Charts for Multiple Locations
      • Multiple Locations Charts
      • Xbar, Rb, and S Charts
      • Xbar, Rb, and D Charts
      • Testing Two Locations
      • Exercise 12
      • Two Way ANOVA
      • Exercise 13
    • Module 7:CUSUM Charts
      • CUSUM Charts
      • Tabular CUSUM
      • CUSUM Final Notes
      • Exercise 14
    • Module 8:Trending Charts
      • Trending Charts
      • Constructing Trending Charts
      • Exercise 15
    • Module 9:Attribute Charts
      • Attribute Charts
      • p Chart
      • np Chart
      • c Chart
      • u Chart
      • Standardized Charts
      • Exercise
      • Laney’s p Chart
    • Course Summary

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