Six Sigma SPC - Statistical Process Control

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A

ALT - Accelerated life test

Acceptance sampling plan

Accuracy

Active Redundancy

Affinity chart or diagram

Allocation

Analyze

ANOVA - Analysis of variance

Appraisal cost

AQL - Acceptable Quality Level

Area chart (per FMEA description)

B

Baseline measures

Bathtub curve

Benchmarking or Benchmark

Black Belt or Blackbelt

Block Diagram

BSC - Balanced scorecard

Burn In

C

Cause and Effect diagram

Champion / Sponsor

Chi-Square

Common cause

CDR - Concept Design Review

Concept Selection

Complex Block Diagram

Contingency Table

Control

Control chart

Control Plan

Controlled Variation

COPQ - Cost of Poor Quality

Correlation

Correlation Coefficient - Scatter plot

Cp - Inherent process capability

Cpk - Process capability

Critical Characteristic

Criteria matrix

Critical Path Method

Customer requirement

Cycle time

D

Defect

Defective

Design Life

Design Review

Detection (per FMEA description)

DFSS - Design for Six Sigma

Discrete data

Disposition

Distribution Chart

DMAIC - Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control

DO - Defect opportunity

DOE - Design of Experiments

Downstream

Downtime

DPMO - Defects per Million Opportunities

DPO - Defects per Opportunity

Durability

E

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Expected life

External failure

F

FMEA - Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

Failure rate

Fishbone Diagram

Flow Chart

Force field analysis

Frequency Plot

FTA - Fault Tree Analysis

G

Gantt Chart

Gauge R & R/Gage R & R/GR&R

Green Belt or Greenbelt

H

Histogram Plot

Hypothesis statement

I

Improve

Ishikawa Diagram

ISO-9000 or ISO9000

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J

Juran Diagram

K

k Factor

L

Linear Graph

Loss Function

LASP - Lot acceptance sampling plan

LTPD - Lot tolerance percent defective

LCL - Lower Control Limit

LSL - Lower Specification Limit

M

MDR - Manufacturing Design Review

Master Black Belt

Mean

MTBF - Mean Time Between Failure

MTTF - Mean Time To Failure

Measure

Multivoting

N

Non-value adding activity

O

Operational definition

P

Parameter

Parameter Design

Pareto Chart

Pareto Principal

Pc - Consumer's risk

Pilot

PDCA � Plan Do Check Act

PDR - Prototype Design Review

PPDR - Post Production Design Review

Precision

Preliminary plan

Prevention Cost

Probability

Process

Process design

Process improvement

Process management

Process map (flowchart)

PQ - Process Performance Qualification

Proportion defective

Pugh Model

Q

Quality

QA - Quality assurance

QFD - Quality Function Deployment

Quality inspection

R

Random sampling

Range - R Bar

R � Reliability

RPN - Risk Priority Number

RQL - Rejectable quality level

R & R Repeatability and Reproducibility

Rework

RTY - Rolled throughput yield

Run chart / time plot

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S

Sample

Sampling bias

Scrap

Sigma

Six Sigma or 6 Sigma

Special cause

Standard Deviation

Stratification

Stratified sampling

SPC - Statistical Process Control

Supplier

SIPOC - Suppliers Inputs Process Outputs Customer

Systematic sampling

T

Tolerance Design

U

UCL - Upper Control Limit

Uncontrolled Variation

USL - Upper Specification Limit

V

Value-adding activities

Variable data

Variation

VOC - Voice of the Customer

W

Weibull Plot

Weibull Distribution

X

X Bar

Y

Yield

Z

Z-Score - Z-Ratio - Z-Value

Zero Defects

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 07-Jun-06 21:46:52 PDT

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