What will you achieve?
At the end of the course, you will
- Understand data types and the importance of appropriate data collection methods
- Understand the nature and relevance of descriptive statistics in process performance measurement
- Understand how to establish and review statistical process control charts for variable and attribute data
- Be able to define process capability and understand the difference between control and capability
- Understand when and where each tool is best applied
- Be able to use Minitab as an everyday tool in support of data analysis and control.
How will you be supported?
During this onsite course, you will
- Be able to listen to and interact with the course tutor and other participants
- Be able to ask questions and complete in-course quizzes to self-assess your understanding of the topic
- Be able to download soft copy presentation files, with data sets and case studies, for your own future use.
In addition, Lean Ireland tutors will be available online to answer any data analysis questions that arise after the workshops, as and when required.
Workshop agenda
- Data collection & graphing, descriptive statistics
- Introductions
- Introduction to Minitab, worksheets & displays, data entry and column and cell updating, sorting, Stat & Graph menu features, importing from Excel, changing data types, Minitab Assistant, layout tool, help.
- Data types & data collection
- Graphing techniques: run, Pareto, box plot & histogram
- Layout tool & exporting graphs
- Introduction to descriptive statistics, measures of location – mean mode & median, data sets & interactive exercises
- Measures of spread – range, standard deviation & variance
- Properties of the normal distribution, Z scores and prediction
- Statistical Process Control & Process Capability Analysis
- Data collection & graphing, descriptive statistics
- Statistical process control for individuals & samples: ImR, XbarR, c, u, p and np charts
- The meaning of control, Nelson’s rules for out-of-control conditions
- Introduction to process capability analysis (PCA)
- Capability indices Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk, capability for individuals, capability for samples, Control vs. capability
- PCA for non-normal data
Who is the course for:
This course is designed for those who need an introduction to data analysis in Minitab. The course is paced to meet the needs of beginner to intermediate data analysis practitioners. Typical participants include supervisors, line leads, project managers, financial accountants, supply chain analysts, process engineers and laboratory quality analysts.