ABSTRACT

Training is quickly forgotten if not used soon after the training is provided. For those that used the training methods in conjunction with the installation of a statistical process control (SPC) system, start entering your data. It takes a lot of data to start to get a good picture of a process. Those that read this book and those that are trained by the methods in this book should get access to SPC software. Even if one has to start out using fictitious data, or data that is not part of a real process, put it into the software and start processing the data. The most important thing to do is to start using the knowledge. With a new SPC system you will start to establish a baseline as you enter data. Monitor the process or processes and watch the control chart pictures evolve.