Introduction to Process Capability

Section 2 Variation Fundamentals

Lesson S02-09

Text: Section 2 pages 68 – 71

Duration: 10 minutes

Assessing Process Capability is a major component of this training program. We introduce the concept of Process Capability here.

Process Capability refers to the ability of the process to meet specification. Typically we quantitatively evaluate the capability by estimating the number of defective parts per million (or another similar statistic) or utilize common process capability indices (such as Cp or Cpk).

In section 4 we will focus on quantitative assessment of process capability. Here, we simply aim to introduce the concept.

Introduction

Process Stable and/or Capable Exercise (continued)

Process Stable and/or Capable Exercise (continued)

Process Stable and/or Capable Exercise (continued)

Process Stable and/or Capable Exercise (continued) and Summary