Running Your Machines with SPC: A Shop Floor Guide for Manufacturing

by James C. Abbott

After 30+ years of working with and teaching plant managers, author James Abbott has identified the qualities that set apart the most successful and promotable of this group. These managers have an intricate understanding of their machines, they are expert at assessing each component of their operation, and everyone at their facility has explicitly defined duties. These qualities are achieved by learning a specific set of holistic skills. This book provides a unique opportunity for managers to study the interrelationships necessary to take full advantage of Statistical Process Control. RUNNING YOUR MACHINES WITH SPC explains how and why to use control charts. In addition to the conventional control charts and capability studies, you will be introduced to bonus tools like the Walkabout(R) Dependency Diagram. You will practice plotting readings on a control chart, and learn what the data is saying about the process. Finally, you will follow along as a fictional company tries to implement SPC, but misuses some good tools. When the company correctly uses SPC, the results are immediately evident.

Hardcover

First published January 31, 2001