Using Process Control Charts


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Course Number: V20C_23



The usual responsibilities of an engineer or manager include data collection, analysis, process troubleshooting and process improvement. Using established and logical methodology can improve problem-solving and troubleshooting skills while guiding process improvement strategies and efforts. Identifying and implementing process improvements enable us to become more effective engineers or managers and increases our value to an organization.

To adequately control any repetitive operation requires continuous monitoring.  The control chart is a graphical representation of this monitoring process. “Using Process Control Charts” focuses on the simple analytical tools of Shewhart Control Charts, or Statistical Process Control (SPC). The simple tools presented will be a review for many engineers and for others it will be an ‘eye-opening’ approach to using control charts to improve process performance. 

The control chart is primarily a tool used to analyze data which is generated over a period of time.  Developed by Dr. Walter A. Shewhart in 1924, the control chart remains one of the most important tools in the SPC arsenal.  Although simple to use, they are very powerful for process analysis. “Using Process Control Charts” is intended to provide practical information that will enable you and your organization develop and implement an effective, logical and organized approach to process improvement based on data and using process control charts correctly.

“Using Process Control Charts” is a practical course that uses real world examples. It is intended to provide an understanding of using the simple statistical tools of SPC for process improvement by looking into several scenarios and using control charting to lead to solutions. This is not a theoretical statistics course, or series of courses. It is intended to be practical and a such is not a comprehensive statistics course, either. Don’t be ‘scared off’ by the idea of statistical methods. This course is about simple common-sense tools to use for process improvement.

The instructor for “Using Process Control Charts,” Davis M. Woodruff, PE has over three decades of real-world experience with clients on 3 continents and in 35 states. He uses a practical approach based on ‘real world’ experiences.

The learning objectives are for participants to:

  1. Review/Understand the fundamentals of statistical methods for process improvement
  2. Learn to select the techniques or tools to answer the questions
  3. Understand the concepts and foundations of Statistical Process Control Charts
  4. Be able to select the correct control chart and interpret the information correctly
  5. Understand, calculate and correctly report process capability
  6. Become a more effective problem solver while improving processes


Course Length: 2 Hours, ( 0. 2CEUs or 2PDHs or 2CPCs )

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