SPC Training - Revamping our current SPC course which I teach - Suggestions?

[ISOPete]

I need some help/direction. I have been assigned the task of revamping our current SPC course. I teach it now. We have a large amount of basic calculations in this course that most of the employees will never use again making the class very burdensome.
Are there any packaged courses you all can recommend?

Pete

 

[Bill Ryan - 2007]

I don't know of any "canned packages" but JSW started a thread which might give you some ideas to be able to just revamp your current teaching.

Control Chart Interpretation - General "Rules"

 

[reynald]

I need some help/direction. I have been assigned the task of revamping our current SPC course. I teach it now. We have a large amount of basic calculations in this course that most of the employees will never use again making the class very burdensome.
Are there any packaged courses you all can recommend?

Pete

I faced the same problem. I was assigned to develop an SPC course/package for non-technical people,and use it to train our QA staffs.I used a modules approach to make the package more flexible. the contents are:

Basic Satistical Concepts: mean, median,mode, range, variation, std. dev, histogram, probability distributions, Normal distributions, practical applications.

Process Capability: Histograms, Capability Indices, Practical Applications

Control charts: Philosophy, methodology,Statistical basis, control charting, interpretation, practical applications

Curve Fitting and Linear Regression - methodology and parctical application

Design of Experiments/ANOVA -- Philosophy, methodology, practical application

Measurement Capability Studies - Range method and ANOVA method, variables and attributes measurements, practical applications

It was tough though to "train" people with all of these for such a limited time.

Hope that helps...

 

[Miner]

Consider developing two different levels of SPC training.

The first as a very basic awareness level course. The object being to understand basic variation and the use of a control chart. Skip all of the math in this course, and focus on application. Wait to train the person until they will actually be using it, or they will forget.

The second level would contain the math and how to calculate control limits. This would only be provided to those that would actually need to do that.

 

[Bill Baker]

works for me

Look @ Resource Engineering in CT on the web...... they have great training materials!!

wingman