Capability Analysis

Seminar participants and technical support callers often have questions about capability. This excerpt from Practical Tools for Continuous Improvement Volume 1 Statistical Tools explains capability analysis, including Cp and Cpk indices.

>1.0 Capability analysis: What is it?
>2.0 Capability analysis: What does it look like?
>3.0 Capability analysis: When is it used?
>4.0 Capability analysis: How is it made?

The full chapter in Practical Tools for Continuous Improvement discusses other capability indices, applications in manufacturing, service, and administration, variations such as capability analysis for one-sided specifications, trial runs, attributes data, and nonnormal data. For more information on this reference, see Practical Tools for Continuous Improvement.