Mastering Statistical Quality Control with Minitab

Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement

Created by: László Bognár
Professor of Applied Statistics

What Will I Learn?

• Get familiar with those chapters of Statistics, which are intensively used in Statistical Quality Control or in Six Sigma projects.
• Be the master of Minitab.
• Learn how to analyze and evaluate your Measurement System or how to use different Capability measures in the MEASURE phase to quantify the actual and the potential capability of your process. Learn how to conduct a Minitab session when you analyze your experiment with One- or Multifactor ANOVA in the ANALYSE phase and learn how to interpret the session outputs of the analysis properly.
• Get familiar with the concepts of Statistical Process Control and the technics of using Control Charts in the CONTROL phase for quality improvement either in the manufacturing or in the service sectors.

Requirements

• Download and install Minitab. Version 17.1 is used in the video lectures but earlier or later versions can also be used since little changes have been made in the way of manipulating data.
• Download the dataset used throughout the course. The dataset downloadable from the “Lecture 1. Introduction.”
• If you have never met Minitab software before take the free short course of “Getting Familiar with Minitab” where the screens and the most basic commands of Minitab are introduced.
• To complete this course you should be familiar with the basic concepts of Statistics. If you need help in this field or you want to polish your knowledge take my other course “Foundation of Statistics with Minitab”, here on Udemy and use the relevant chapters whenever you need.

Target audience

• The course is ideal for two groups of audiences.
• - For undergraduate or graduate students who have been studying Quality Management at their universities and who need help in understanding the concepts of statistical methods for quality improvement and want to get skill of using Minitab for problem solving in that area.
• - For professionals in the field of quality working on Lean Six Sigma projects and occasionally they need support in the proper use of statistical methods in the different phases of the project.