SPC Chart Defaults

GainSeeker allows you to specify several default options for use with the SPC Charts and Reports module. Customizing these default options to suit your needs will make routine analysis and charting activities even faster and more convenient.

Some of these settings are also applied when using the Enterprise Dashboard and Dynamic Reports modules.

To configure default settings for SPC charts, expand the SPC tree.

 

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Control, Time Axis and Scatter charts

To configure default settings for these charts, expand the Control, Time Axis and Scatter charts tree.

Control chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on the X-bar (or X) portion of these charts, expand the Control chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

Range chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on the Range (or Moving Range) portion of these charts, expand the Range chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

Show sigma stripes

To display sigma stripes (e.g., red, yellow and green zones) on these charts, select the Show sigma stripes check box.

To display these charts without the sigma stripes, clear this check box.

CuSum/Control charts

To configure default settings for these charts, expand the CuSum/Control charts tree.

For more details on the calculations used for CuSum/Control charts, see CuSum statistics.

Acceptance limit based on

The Acceptance limit is used to calculate the upper and lower CuSum values for each data subgroup. When performing real-time CuSum checks, the upper and lower CuSum values for the data subgroup are checked against the Acceptance limit. The Acceptance limit can be based on the Upper Ind. Gate, the Upper Gate, or the Upper Spec from the standard for which data is being charted.

To select the limit from which the Acceptance limit will be calculated, expand the Acceptance limit based on tree. Then click Upper Gate, Upper Ind. Gate or Upper Spec.

CuSum chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on the X-bar (or X) portion of these charts, expand the CuSum chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

Decision interval value

This value is used to calculate the upper and lower CuSum value for data subgroups.

To configure this value, right-click the Decision interval value node on the tree, and then enter the desired value. The Decision interval value must be greater than 0 but no greater than 10.

Range chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on the Range (or Moving Range) portion of these charts, expand the Range chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

Show C1/C2 zone

The C1/C2 zone is the area between C1 and C2.

To display this zone as a shaded area on the chart, select this check box.

Show sigma stripes

To display sigma stripes (e.g., red, yellow and green zones) on these charts, select the Show sigma stripes check box.

To display these charts without the sigma stripes, clear this check box.

Start value constant

This value is used to calculate the upper and lower CuSum value for a data subgroup when that subgroup is the first in the data set retrieved. It is also used in the upper or lower CuSum calculation when the previous CuSum value exceeded the Acceptance limit.

To configure this value, right-click the Start value constant node on the tree, and then enter the desired value. The minimum Start value constant is 0, and the maximum is 1.

Data grouped on control and CuSum charts

This check box configures the default setting for whether or not to automatically create data groups.

If this check box is selected (and no other data grouping is applied to a chart or a dynamic report), then data will be automatically grouped as follows:

  1. If data is retrieved with a filter that sorts the data in order by a traceability field, then the data will be automatically grouped and sorted by that traceability field.

  2. Otherwise, a new data group will be created each time an Anchor point is encountered, and the data will be sorted in order by date/time stamp. (If the data does not contain any Anchor points, then all of the data will be analyzed together in a single group.)

Draw vertical lines marking each anchor point or data group divider

This check box configures the default setting for whether or not to display a vertical line on charts (such as control charts) each time a new anchor point or data group is encountered.

Draw vertical lines separating part numbers on Short Run charts

Choose whether SPC should draw vertical lines to show every part number change on Short Run control charts. If you change parts very frequently and put many points on a chart, the vertical lines can be placed very close together and make the chart difficult to read.

EWMA charts

To configure default settings for these charts, expand the EWMA charts tree.

For more details on the calculations used for EWMA charts, see EWMA statistics.

EWMA chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on these charts, expand the EWMA chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

EWMA weight

This is the weighting factor for EWMA charts. A typical factor is 0.1.

To configure this value, right-click the EWMA weight node on the tree, and then enter the desired value.

Show sigma stripes

To display sigma stripes (e.g., red, yellow and green zones) on these charts, select the Show sigma stripes check box.

To display these charts without the sigma stripes, clear this check box.

Histograms

To configure default settings for these charts, expand the Histograms tree.

Histogram limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on these charts, expand the Histogram limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

Histogram outliers

Select how or if you want to display outliers on histograms. You may include the outliers with the rest of the data, distinguish the outliers from the rest of the date by displaying them with a different color and pattern, or exclude the outliers from the histogram.

To configure the way that outliers should be handled on histograms, expand the Histogram outliers tree. Then click Exclude from chart, Include on chart or Mark as outliers.

Moving Average charts

To configure default settings for these charts, expand the Moving Average charts tree.

Moving average chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on the X-bar (or X) portion of these charts, expand the Moving average chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

Moving average span

This is the number of data points that will be averaged for Moving Average charts.

To configure this value, right-click the Moving average span node on the tree, and then enter the desired value.

Range chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on the Moving Range portion of these charts, expand the Range chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include:

Show sigma stripes

To display sigma stripes (e.g., red, yellow and green zones) on these charts, select the Show sigma stripes check box.

To display these charts without the sigma stripes, clear this check box.

Multiple Charts

To configure default settings for Multiple Charts, Process Capability Charts and Multiple Data Tables, expand the Multiple Charts tree.

Multiple chart type

To set the default chart type for Multiple Charts, expand the Multiple chart type tree and then click Histograms, Range charts, X-bar and range charts or X-bar charts.

Process capability chart options

To configure default options for Multiple Capability / Box & Whisker charts, expand the Process capability chart options tree.

Prompt for display columns before multiple data table is shown

When this check box is selected, the user is prompted to select which columns to display and how data should be grouped before a Multiple Data Table or Combined Control Chart is drawn.

For more information, see Defining the "Shared Traceability" columns, Matching and sorting data records in a Combined Control Chart or Retrieval group columns in a Multiple Data Table.

Sigma stripes based on

If you select the Show sigma stripes check box for Control, EWMA, Moving Average, or CuSum charts, then GainSeeker will display that chart with green, yellow, and red zones.

The green zone represents the chart area that is within 2 sigma of the chart's midline. (On Range charts, the low side of the green zone will automatically extend to the zero point.) The yellow zone represents the area between 2 sigma and 3 sigma from the midline. And the red zone represents the area beyond 3 sigma from the midline.

You can choose to base the midline for Sigma stripes on Control, Spec, or Gate limits. To do so, expand the Sigma stripes based on tree and then choose Control, Gate or Spec.

This setting does not affect calculated statistics or real-time checks.

Trend chart limits

To choose which limits and lines to display by default on Trend charts, expand the Trend chart limits tree. Then select the check boxes for the lines and limits you want to display by default. Your options include: