Control Charts -

SigmaXL® Version 6.1

Control Charts: Overview

Individuals & Moving Range Charts

X-Bar & R/S Charts

I-MR-R/S Charts (Between/Within)

Control Chart Selection Tool

Use Historical Limits; Flag Special Causes

Add Comments as Data Labels

Summary Report on Test for Special Causes

Use Historical Groups to Display Before VS After Improvement

Scroll Through Charts

Process Capability Report (Long Term/Short Term)

Individuals Charts for Non-normal Data: Johnson Transformation

Box-Cox Power Transformation

Reliability/Weilbull Analysis

Training Opportunities

Control Charts

Individuals

Individuals & Moving Range

X-bar & R

X-bar & S

P, NP, C, U

P’ and U’ (Laney) to handle overdispersion

I-MR-R (Between/Within)

I-MR-S (Between/Within) Back to Index

Control Charts

Tests for Special Causes

Special causes are also labeled on the control chart data point.

Set defaults to apply any or all of Tests 1-8

Control Chart Selection Tool

Simplifies the selection of appropriate control chart based on data type

Process Capability report

Pp, Ppk, Cp, Cpk

Available for I, I-MR, X-Bar & R, X-bar & S charts. Back to Index

Control Charts

Add data to existing charts – ideal for

operator ease of use!

Scroll through charts with user defined

window size

Advanced Control Limit options: Subgroup

Start and End; Historical Groups (e.g. split

control limits to demonstrate before and after

improvement) Back to Index

Control Charts

Exclude data points for control limit calculation

Add comment to data point for assignable cause

± 1, 2 Sigma Zone Lines

Control Charts for Nonnormal data

Box-Cox and Johnson Transformations

16 Nonnormal distributions supported (see Capability

Combination Report for Nonnormal Data)

Individuals chart of original data with percentile based

control limits

Individuals/Moving Range chart for normalized data with

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Control Charts:

Individuals &

Moving Range Charts

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Control Charts:

X-bar & R/S Charts

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Control Charts: I-MR-R/S

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Control Chart Selection

Tool

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Control Charts:

Use Historical Limits;

Flag Special Causes

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Control Charts:

Add Comments as Data Labels

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Control Charts:

Summary Report on

Tests for Special Causes

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Control Charts:

Use Historical Groups to

Display Before Versus

After Improvement

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Control Charts:

Scroll Through Charts With

User Defined Window Size

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Control Charts:

Process Capability Report

(Long Term/Short Term)

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Individuals Chart for

Nonnormal Data:

Johnson Transformation

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Individuals/Moving Range

Chart for Nonnormal Data:

Johnson Transformation

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Control Charts:

Box-Cox Power

Transformation

Normality Test is

automatically applied

to transformed data!

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Reliability/Weibull

Analysis

Weibull Analysis

Complete and Right Censored data

Least Squares and Maximum Likelihood

methods

Output includes percentiles with confidence

intervals, survival probabilities, and Weibull

probability plot.

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SigmaXL® Training

We now offer On-Site Training in SigmaXL.

Course Duration: 4.5 Days.

Instructor is John Noguera, SigmaXL co-founder,

Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Motorola University

Senior Instructor.

Hands-on exercises with catapult.

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SigmaXL® Training

Course Contents:

Day 1: Introduction to SigmaXL, Basic Graphical Tools and Descriptive Statistics

Day 2: Measurement Systems Analysis, Process Capability

Day 3: Comparative Methods, Multi-Vari Analysis

Day 4: Correlation, Regression and Introduction to DOE

Day 5: Statistical Process Control Back to Index