Process Capability Analysis

A Powerful Tool Set for Understanding your Manufacturing Process Relative to Your Customers' Quality Expectations

Created by: Ray Harkins, The Manufacturing Academy
Senior Manufacturing Professional, Online Educator

What Will I Learn?

• Learn to build histograms and compute the capability statistics in Microsoft Excel
• Calculate and interpret process capability indices like Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk and Cpm.
• Understand the exact differences between Cpk and Ppk
• How to apply Process Capability Analysis to manufacturing improvement projects or new parts
• Interpret the results of a capability study to drive process improvement
• Advanced topics such as one-sided targets, estimating % defective using capability indices, skew, and kurtosis

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of manufacturing
• Basic knowledge of print reading and mathematics
• Eagerness to expand quality knowledge base

Target audience

• Quality inspectors, technicians, engineers and managers
• Manufacturing professionals
• Industrial engineers
• Continuous improvement professionals
• Six Sigma practitioners