Overview
- Comprehend the differences between Traditional versus Statistical Quality Control
- Describe SPC and associated terminology
- Distinguish the AspenTech application from other SPC products
- Differentiate between Statistical and Specification limits
- Define BatchSPC
- Develop a working knowledge of Aspen SPC tools and functionality
- Summarize a flow for generating Quality products
- Workshop: Getting to Know Aspen Real-time SPC - Experiment with various Context menu options
Using aspenONE Process Explorer
- Overview of aspenONE Process Explorer
- Create plots in aspenONE Process Explorer
- Understand plot settings and aspenONE Process Explorer user interface
Control Charts
- Describe the purpose of Control Charts
- Organize/Format data for SPC using Samples and Subgroups, and discuss Ad-Hoc versus Pre-Configured records.
- Use different options that are available within Control Charts
- View the various types of aspenONE Process Explorer Control Charts
- Workshop: Control Charts - Experiment with various chart options
Viewing Alarms
- Use many features like Subgroup Details, Subgroup Comments, and Alarms that are part of standard control charts
- Identify different ways of viewing SPC Alarms
- Describe the meanings of the different AspenTech SPC Alarms
- Discuss patterns that do not show up as SPC Alarms
- Workshop: Viewing Alarms - Experiment with Subgroup Details, Free & Fixed Comments.and standard SPC Alarms
Other Types of Control Charts
- Define some of the formulae used for XBAR, RANGE and STANDARD DEVIATION Control Charts
- View and Explain how to use the following Charts
- CUSUM
- EWMA
- FREQUENCY PLOTS
- Workshop: Other Control Charts - Use aspenONE Process Explorer to examine different types of SPC charts
Creating Aspen SPC Records
- Create an Aspen InfoPlus.21 database SPC record directly from an Aspen Process Explorer Control Chart
- Assess the benefits and limitations of using the Aspen Process Explorer method of creating SPC records
- Evaluate the result of using the Mean Square Successive Difference (MSSD) algorithm for calculating Standard Deviation.
- Workshop: Create an Aspen SPC record using the Ad Hoc to SPC Utility
Aspen SPC Configuration Utility
- Create an Aspen InfoPlus.21 database SPC record using the Real-time SPC Configuration Utility.
- Assess the benefits of using this method over the one described in the previous lesson directly from Aspen Process Explorer
- Workshop: Create an Aspen SPC Record using the Aspen SPC Configuration Utility
Creating Aspen SPC Records with IP.21 Administrator
- Create an Aspen InfoPlus.21 database SPC record using the Aspen InfoPlus.21 Administrator.
- Assess the benefits and limitations of using the Aspen IP.21 Administrator method versus the Aspen Process Explorer and SPC Configuration Utility methods
- Interpret the different fields within an Aspen InfoPlus.21 SPC record
- Modify Aspen InfoPlus.21 SPC Records
- Workshop: Examine an existing Aspen SPC record. Create a new Aspen SPC record for a given criteria
Configuring Aspen SPC Records for Alarms, Comments
- Configure a new SPC alarm rule using the Aspen InfoPlus.21 Administrator
- Understand more about the meaning of the different SPC Alarm rules
- View the effect of the new alarm rule in aspenONE Process Explorer, and in an SPC record
- Create and configure the overhead records needed to support SPC Comments
- Workshop: Configuring Alarm - Create and configure an alarm with associated records and comments
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