Effective applications of control charts using SAS® software

This short course presents methods for constructing control charts that use the SHEWHART procedure in the SAS System. The course highlights techniques for improving the visual clarity of control charts and for implementing statistical modifications that are broadly applicable, such as analysis of means and control charts for short runs. The course also demonstrates the use of the SHEWHART procedure in tandem with SAS procedures for statistical modeling as a flexible approach to special problems such as autocorrelation in process data. The audience should understand the principles of statistical process control (SPC) and have basic familiarity with SAS programming.