Modern Time Series Approaches for Quality in Manufacturing: Moving Beyond Run Rules and Control Charts

Featured Speaker:
J. Stuart Hunter, Ph. D.
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Date: Friday, July 7, 2006
Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm (Lunch included)
Session: "Using JMP® 6 to Get from Data to Discovery," 1:00 - 4:00pm
Cost: FREE

Location: Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village
201 Village Boulevard, Princeton, NJ

Most students of Quality learn to use the Shewhart chart and run rules along with the Cusum and EWMA charts. These charting methods are based on the assumption that the successively plotted points are stochastically independent. The charts are known to be "robust" to many violations of assumptions, but in modern manufacturing being "robust" is not enough when it results in ignoring information resting in a data trace. The good news is that it is easy with today’s software to fit stochastic models to time sequenced data and then to forecast, adjust and minimize variability about a target. The quick identification of special causes of poor performance is also assured. In today’s world of quality challenges, the time series aspects of process data should no longer be ignored.

This presentation will exposit the use of autocorrelations in process modeling, emphasize forecasting for control, elucidate the bounded control chart and describe the remarkable time series qualities of the EWMA (Exponentially Weighted Moving Average). The influence of changing time intervals between observations will also be discussed. The intersecting roles of the classical quality engineer with that of the engineering process control engineer will become obvious.

Dr. Hunter, recipient of the Shewhart and Deming Medals, will help you move beyond today's commonly used control chart methodology and on to improve your processes using modern time series approaches.

Agenda*

Time	Event
8:00 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast	Register
8:30 am	Introduction to JMP
9:00 am	Modern Time Series Approaches for Quality in Manufacturing: Moving Beyond Run Rules and Control Charts J. Stuart Hunter, Ph. D., Princeton University
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Featured Presentation Continued
Noon	Lunch
1:00 pm	Using JMP 6 to Get from Data to Discovery
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Time

Event

8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Introduction to JMP

9:00 am

Modern Time Series Approaches for Quality in Manufacturing: Moving Beyond Run Rules and Control Charts
J. Stuart Hunter, Ph. D., Princeton University

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Featured Presentation Continued

Noon

Lunch

1:00 pm

Using JMP 6 to Get from Data to Discovery

4:00 pm

Adjourn

* Agenda subject to change without notice.