{"id":7149,"date":"2024-12-17T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:50:49","slug":"control-charts-are-100-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/control-charts-are-100-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Charts are 100 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Control charts have been around for 100 years. Why isn&#8217;t everyone using them?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/994563422?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/asq.org\/conferences\/wcqi\">American Society for Quality World Conference on Quality and Improvement<\/a> and some guy came up to me and started wanting to argue with me about how you can&#8217;t use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/\">control charts<\/a> for non-normal data. He was ranting about that\u2026 and by the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualitydigest.com\/inside\/healthcare-column\/transforming-data-can-be-fatal-your-analysis-090309.html\">Donald Wheeler has already answered that question: Yes you can<\/a>; shut up. All right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;But, you know, control charts have been around for 100 years. My problem is not worrying about non-normal data, my problem is I can&#8217;t get people to use control charts to track things. They&#8217;re still using line charts and bar charts\u2026 no! I&#8217;m sorry, grow up, come into this century, all right? It&#8217;s so easy to draw control charts with QI Macros, I don&#8217;t know why people are hesitating, right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I think everybody thinks everything&#8217;s too hard. Or they&#8217;ve tried a software and it was too complicated and they don&#8217;t want to learn another software that must be as complicated as that one. Not true. Select some data, click a button, get a chart: That&#8217;s QI Macros.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s honor the legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_A._Shewhart\">Shewhart<\/a>, who invented this stuff, and let&#8217;s start using it to maintain, sustain and improve what we&#8217;re doing. Reduce defects, increase customer satisfaction so we can track it and prove to ourselves that we&#8217;re actually getting the results we want in a consistent stable fashion.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week\u2026 like how we chart stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Control charts have been around for 100 years. 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