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World Class Quality: Using Design of Experiments to Make It Happen
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World Class Quality: Using Design of Experiments to Make It Happen

by Keki R. Bhote, Adi K. Bhote
November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
10h 37m
English
AMACOM
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Chapter 9. The Concentration Chart: Pinpointing Locations of Repetitive Problems

Purpose

If the Multi-Vari shows that the largest major family of variation is within-unit, the next step would be to plot the exact location of the problem within the unit. This is best done with a concentration chart—or, as it is popularly termed—a ''measles chart.'' Find its place in the problem solving roadmap of Figure 7-1.

A concentration chart can show either that: (1) there is no one specific location with repetitive problems (i.e., it is a random distribution) or (2) there does appear to be a concentration of defects in a particular location. Experience tells us, following the universal Pareto's Law, that the many causes of an effect are never equal. In similar ...

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ISBN: 0814404278