Process Report
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Six Sigma > Process Report

Produces six process capability reports for a single quality characteristic of a product. A companion to this report is the Product Report which combines measures from many characteristics into a product capability, or many products' capabilities into a "business capability."

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All observations are in one column: Choose if data are in one column, then enter the column. See Entering the Process Data for examples.

Subgroup sizes: Enter a number (for equal-size subgroups) or enter a column of subscripts (for unequal-size subgroups).

Observations for a subgroup are in one row of columns: Choose if subgroups are arranged in rows across several columns, then enter the columns.

Enter process demographics data individually: Choose to enter process specifications in the dialog box and other demographic information using the Demographics subdialog.

Lower spec: Enter the lower specification limit. You must specify either an upper or lower specification limit. Check Boundary to define the number as a "hard" limit, meaning that no measurement is supposed to fall outside the limit.

Upper spec: Enter the upper specification limit. You must specify either an upper or lower specification limit. Check Boundary to define the number as a "hard" limit, meaning that no measurement is supposed to fall outside the limit.  

Target (optional): Enter number for a target or nominal specification. The target value must fall between the lower and upper specifications. To see how calculations change based on targets and specifications, see Centering values for short term statistics.

Obtain demographics data from a column in worksheet: Choose to use demographic information from a worksheet column, then enter the column. See Structure of the demographics column.

Check Lower spec is the lower bound to define the lower specification as a "hard" limit, meaning that no measurement is supposed to fall outside the limit.

Check Upper spec is the upper bound to define the upper specification as a "hard" limit, meaning that no measurement is supposed to fall outside the limit.

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