{"id":8446,"date":"2026-09-15T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:20:07","slug":"if-you-can-type-you-can-do-spc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/if-you-can-type-you-can-do-spc\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can Type, You Can Do SPC"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don&#8217;t have to be a statistician or Six Sigma Belt to do SPC. If you can type numbers into an Excel spreadsheet, you can do SPC.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Download my free ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation &#8211; Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1207421311?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If you can type, you can do SPC. That&#8217;s right, Statistical Process Control. 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 find so many people are afraid; like they have to know formulas, they have to be a statistician, they have to do something mystical, lots of training and in-depth whatever, threatening with how they feel about their own thing about math and statistics and everything else. Not true. Just not true.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;The QI Macros have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-template\/\">fill-in-the-blank templates<\/a>: you type the data into each column and your chart grows automatically. So, you can actually do real-time SPC. We have people with digital gauges who just click [the gauge] and it drops a new number into the spreadsheet and the chart grows. That&#8217;s how hard that is.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need to be a statistician, a Black Belt, a Green Belt; you don&#8217;t even need a belt, all right? (Unless you want your pants to fall down.) I believe that this is simple. Get our QI Macros, use our templates, drop data into it whenever, and you&#8217;re doing SPC.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week like using SPC easily.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&rsquo;t have to be a statistician or Six Sigma Belt to do SPC. If you can type numbers into an Excel spreadsheet, you can do SPC. Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation &ndash; Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results. &#65279; &ldquo;If you can type, you can do SPC. That&rsquo;s right, Statistical Process Control. 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