Analyzing Process Capability


Overview/Description
Target Audience
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Overview/Description
Process capability is determined by a range of variables including people, machines, materials and measurements. The cumulative result must be quantified numerically to determine current performance and project future potential. To do so requires a knowledge of control limits, specification limits, capability indices, and the difference between short- and long-term variability. This course teaches Six Sigma® Black Belts the process capability techniques to analyze current output and project expected value. Six Sigma is a registered Trademark of Motorola Corporation, and all rights, title and interest in Six Sigma belongs to Motorola.

Target Audience
Candidates for Black Belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the implementation of Six Sigma in their organization; consultants involved in implementing a Six Sigma proposal; and organizations implementing a Six Sigma project

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Process Capability Studies

  • recognize the benefits of analyzing process capability.
  • sequence examples of the steps of a process capability study.
  • decide whether a process capability index has been correctly determined and Six Sigma capability is shown.
  • determine the process capability index (Cp) given a set of data, and analyze the results.
  • determine whether Cpk has been correctly calculated and interpreted.
  • determine the center of the data (Cpk) relative to customer specifications, and analyze results.
  • Calculating Process Performance

  • recognize the value of knowing process performance (Pp) and process specification (Ppk).
  • determine whether Pp has been correctly calculated and analyzed.
  • calculate the correct figure for Ppk, given a set of data, and analyze the results.
  • match analysis use of attribute data to examples.
  • select examples of the ways that attribute data has been used to improve process performance.
  • Course Number:
    OPER0196