Process Control
Process Control
Capability
Prakash Awasthy
TQM review
• Highlight the problem
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or
customer gets out of it”
-Peter Drucker
Process Variability
• It’s everywhere
• Dimensions
• Causes
Causes of Variability
• Normal
• Common
• Random/Chance
• Inherent
• Abnormal
• Assignable
• External
• Special
Process Control
• The goal of process control is to identify if the variability is assignable
or random
• And, take appropriate action
• How to identify?
• Control charts
Control chart
• If variability is too much (beyond a band), it could be due to
assignable reasons
• Range, R
• Proportion of defects, p
• Number of defects, c
𝑋 𝐶h𝑎𝑟𝑡
• Process average (centre line),
500.91
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𝑋
– An example
Sample Observations in each sub-group (in ml)
number (day
number)
Observation 1 Observation 2 Observation 3 Observation 4 Average () Range (R)
Day 1 500.5 500.7 500.1 498.5 499.95 2.2
Day 2 505.3 501.4 502.3 500.6 502.4 4.7
Day 3 498.1 498.3 500.3 503.2 499.975 5.1
Day 4 502.3 497.8 496.9 504.6 500.4 7.7
Day 5 504.2 502.1 505.1 495.9 501.825 9.2
500.91 5.78
´
𝑋 𝑅
– An example
Sample Observations in each sub-group (in ml)
number (day
number)
Observation 1 Observation 2 Observation 3 Observation 4 Average () Range (R)
Day 1 500.5 500.7 500.1 498.5 499.95 2.2
Day 2 505.3 501.4 502.3 500.6 502.4 4.7
Day 3 498.1 498.3 500.3 503.2 499.975 5.1
Day 4 502.3 497.8 496.9 504.6 500.4 7.7
Day 5 504.2 502.1 505.1 495.9 501.825 9.2
500.91 5.78
UCL =
Sample number
𝑅 𝐶h𝑎𝑟𝑡
• Process average, centre line
• UCL =
• LCL =
p charts
• Proportion of defects
• Binomial distribution
• UCL =
• LCL =
c charts
• Number of defects
• UCL =
• LCL =
Process Capability
Process Capability
• USL & LSL
• The range of performance which customer is ready to accept (acceptable
variation)
1 1.33 1.667 2
• Define
• Measure
• Analyze
• Improve
• Control
Define
• Define the problem
• Its context- Identify stakeholders, create process map
• Scope