Minitab Real-Time SPC

Minitab Real-Time SPC

For manufacturers, maximizing efficiency is crucial, making quality and process monitoring a top priority. Real-Time SPC, powered by Minitab®, provides a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for quality analysis and improvement. With real-time monitoring and alerts, immediate action can be taken when quality fluctuates, resulting in time and cost savings.

Minitab Real-Time SPC helps in visual process monitoring

Access easily digestible, centralized quality data through real-time control charts and dashboards, featuring a blend of essential monitoring tools such as:

  • I-MR (Individuals-Moving Range)
  • Xbar-R (Xbar-Range)
  • Xbar-S (Xbar-Standard Deviation)
  • I-MR-R/S (Individuals-Moving Range-Range/Standard Deviation)
  • P, NP, Laney P' (Proportion, Nonconformance, Laney P Prime)
  • C, U, Laney U' (Count, Nonconformities, Laney U Prime)

These control charts and dashboards, generated by Minitab's reliable cloud-based software, are automatically updated, ensuring optimized reporting and seamless sharing of insights.

Minitab Real-Time SPC helps in customizable, direct and immediate alerts

Identify quality issues promptly and minimize waste through real-time process feedback, alerts, warnings, and notifications. Efficiently notify the appropriate individuals and teams with customized and valuable alerts delivered via email or text messages. This enables teams to respond swiftly as soon as issues arise, ensuring timely resolution and preventing any further impact.

Minitab Real-Time SPC helps in empowering operators & engineers alike

Real-Time SPC, powered by Minitab, empowers every individual involved in a process, including operators, supervisors, engineers, and management. By assigning access permissions, individuals or teams can effectively collect data, monitor machines, identify issues, and review performance at each step of the process. This ensures that the right people have the necessary access and authority to perform their respective roles and responsibilities.

Minitab Real-Time SPC helps in easy configuration & data collection

Minitab's reliable cloud-based software provides centralized, blended quality data for effortless and comprehensive monitoring. Real-time control charts and dashboards are available, including:

  • I-MR (Individuals-Moving Range)
  • Xbar-R (Xbar-Range)
  • Xbar-S (Xbar-Standard Deviation)
  • I-MR-R/S (Individuals-Moving Range-Range/Standard Deviation)
  • P, NP, Laney P' (Proportion, Nonconformance, Laney P Prime)
  • C, U, Laney U' (Count, Nonconformities, Laney U Prime)

These control charts and dashboards are automatically updated, ensuring optimized reporting and facilitating the sharing of valuable insights.

Minitab Real-Time SPC helps in integrated ecosystem with robust analytics

With Real-Time SPC, powered by Minitab, tackling your most challenging problems and conducting in-depth root cause analysis becomes effortless. This solution incorporates statistical analysis, including predictive analytics and machine learning, to provide comprehensive insights. By leveraging these advanced techniques, you can unlock deeper understanding and uncover valuable insights, enabling you to deliver enhanced value and optimize your manufacturing processes.

Features of Minitab Real-Time SPC

It helps in monitoring the process variables with the use of control charts like I-MR, XBar-R, XBar-S, and I-MR-R/S. These charts help track and analyze the variables to ensure the process is running smoothly. Additionally, there are control charts specifically designed for monitoring attributes, including P, NP, C, U, and Laney P' and U'. These charts provide insights into attribute-related data. Quality tools play a crucial role in assessing the process capability. They include capability analysis for both normal and non-normal distributions, Pareto charts for identifying significant factors, and dashboards that offer a quick overview of current performance and process quality. To stay informed about critical events, alerts and notifications can be set up to receive email or text notifications. These alerts cover scenarios like detecting out-of-control processes, violations of specification or action limits, and even station shutdowns. User portals cater to different roles within the organization, such as operations, engineering, and administration, granting them easy access to Minitab Connect® with a single click, facilitating efficient collaboration and workflow.

Process MonitoringVariables control chartsI-MR
XBar-R
XBar-S
I-MR-R/S
Attributes control chartsP
NP
C
U
Laney P’ and U’
Quality ToolsCapability analysisNormal capability
Non-normal capability
Pareto chart
DashboardsCurrent Performance Summary
Process Quality Snapshot
Alerts & NotificationsReceive alerts via email or text
AlertsOut of control process
Specification limit violation
Action limit violation
Station shutdown
User PortalsOperations for Operators and Supervisors
Engineering
Administration
Single-click access to Minitab Connect®