Process and Equipment Monitoring & Control

Once you have your process equipment running, there are convenient statistical methods that can be used to analyze your process monitoring data and make decisions about control. Statistical Process Control (SPC) tells whether or not your processes are running properly. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) practices organize your process operators and equipment technicians into a team that keeps your process tools running. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a method to measure how well your equipment is running.

MBTS experts can set up quality systems to keep your processes running efficiently.

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While there are many books about a myriad of statistical methods, there are only a few basic principles that equipment operators and engineers need to comprehend. First one needs to observe the amount, quantity or size of the object being observed. This typically the mean (average) of a number of repeated measurements of a parameter. Then must observe how much uncertainty there is that observation.

This is typically quantifies with the standard deviation. Knowing these two values, which is generally not too difficult, is all that you need to keep your process in control and running productively. These values can often be generated by your process monitoring instruments. Your staff does is required to extensive training in statistics to be capable of running your process in tight control.