An Excel Add-In for Statistical Process Control Charts

t shifts in processes in, for example, manufacturing. Among these are control charts".Control charts and other SPC techniques have been in use since at least the 1950s, and,because they are comparatively unsophisticated, are often used by management or op-erations personnel without formal stati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuel E. Buttrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2009-06-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v30/i13/paper
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Summary:t shifts in processes in, for example, manufacturing. Among these are control charts".Control charts and other SPC techniques have been in use since at least the 1950s, and,because they are comparatively unsophisticated, are often used by management or op-erations personnel without formal statistical training. These personnel will often haveexperience with the popular spreadsheet program Excel, but may have less training on amainstream statistical package. Base Excel does not provide the ability to draw controlcharts directly, although add-ins for that purpose are available for purchase.We present a free add-in for Excel that draws the most common sorts of control charts.It follows the development of the textbook of Montgomery (2005), so it may be well-suited for instructional purposes.
ISSN:1548-7660