Scenario 3: Hiding Symbols on Your Control Charts You could set this to be the default behavior under Tools > Options >Control Charts and Quality Tools > Other: This change can be made in the Xbar-R Options sub-menu, under the Display tab:Īfter checking this box and hitting OK a few times, your Xbar-R Chart will show the control limits for all stages. You'll notice that only the last stage’s control limits are displayed, but you really want the first stage's to be displayed as well. Let’s piggyback off of our first scenario and look at an Xbar-R chart with stages: Scenario 2: Showing Control Limits for Different Stages The resulting Xbar-R chart will set the standard deviation to 2 for the first stage, leaving the second stage unaffected. You’ll need to add an asterisk to represent the stage that is not affected by the historical estimate: You may be inclined to enter in 2 into the second box and hit OK, but that will set the standard deviation to 2 for both stages. You can enter historical estimates for the standard deviation under the Parameters tab under the Xbar-R Options sub-menu: For the second stage, you’ll let Minitab calculate the standard deviation. However, you want to use a historical standard deviation of 2 for the first stage, as opposed to letting Minitab calculate it for you. At each stage, Minitab Statistical Software recalculates the center line and control limits on the chart by default. Stages show how a process changes over specific time periods. Suppose you want to create an XBar-R Chart with stages. Scenario 1: Create a Control Chart with Stages
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For these scenarios, I used the XBar-R chart as my template, but you could easily apply them to many of the other control charts in Minitab. I wanted to share these potential scenarios with you in hopes that you will find them informative and useful. Ĭreated on by the reprex package (v2.0.Hi everyone! Over the past month, I fielded some interesting customer calls regarding control chart creation and editing. #> $ call : language qcc(data = dfdata3_grp, type = "xbar.one")
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#> Type 'citation("qcc")' for citing this R package in publications. dfdata3 Warning: package 'qcc' was built under R version 4.1.2 You only have one measurement per Batch.Name. I changed the order of the arguments in qcc.groups and I changed the type of plot from xbar to xbar.one.