Statistical Process Control (SPC) allows to track trends and monitor the very heartbeat of production processes. This technique helps to determine the stability, predict the performance and support the capability assessment of a process.
The primary SPC tool is the control chart. It is a graphical tracking of a process input or an output over time. In a control chart, the visual comparison allows you to detect any abnormal variation in the process — variation that may indicate a problem or fundamental change in the process.
What gets measured, gets managed. As part of process excellence journey, SPC is essential to understand process behaviour and continually discover insights for process improvement.
Now, with the aid of Minitab software, the control charts can be set up faster and enable easier output analysis.