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Article: Understanding the hierarchy of process control
- Article from:
- Quality Progress
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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CopyrightCopyright American Society for Quality Oct 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Using a combination map to formulate an action plan
WE HAVE ALL HEARD MANAGERS say, "We must implement process control!" This is not new advice-- Walter Shewhart and every guru since have told us to do so. But what constitutes a state of process control? How do we want our manufacturing system to operate when we get there? Where is "there"? Where are we now?
This article provides a simple yet comprehensive way to answer such questions. It explains how to characterize your current operating environment (and target environment) through a diagram of process control variables. There are thousands of possible combinations of variables, and you are at one of them now, regardless of the ...