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IATF 16949 - When to conduct SPC study ?

Discussion in 'IATF 16949:2016 - Automotive Quality Systems' started by leyladonmez, Feb 27, 2019.

  1. leyladonmez

    leyladonmez Member

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    Hello everyone,

    I am not sure if IATF book explains that: in which conditions we have to make SPC study? In which period? Or when we have to repeat the SPC study?
     
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    Andy Nichols Moderator Staff Member

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    Are you using the "APQP" blue book? Does your customer require you do adopt this approach to development of your process? IF so, that will tell you when, in your process development, that capability and statistical controls will be developed.
     
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    SPC is intended to establish a state of statistical control and to improve process capability. It helps organizations to understand the behavior of processes to reduce variation. If you will check the IATF 16949 standard for words like "variation", "stability", "capability" particularly in clauses 8 to 9, it is likely that SPC studies are required. The Goal of the standard even mention the phrase "reduction of variation" so statistical studies (e.g. SPC, MSA) could help organizations to fulfill this.
     
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    Thank you. Yes I looked after your answer. In APQP item 4.1 directs to customer or company quality team. I looked to Ford CSR couldn't find SPC frequency yet. MAybe I couldn't see. Thank you.
     
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    Please see Ford CSR section 9.1.1 for ongoing SPC requirements. Basically you should be doing it in production continuously and performing at 1.33Ppk or better.
     
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    I'm troubled by the actual question "When do we conduct an SPC study?"

    SPC is not a study you do. It is a method you employ to control your process. (It's Statistical Process Control). It's not intended to be done, then stopped, like an experiment. It is an option you choose to run your process. Other options being:
    1) 100% inspect everything (SPC then not needed)
    2) Run and just hope (Easy control plan, for sure. Hard to sell to customer.)

    If you are talking "Initial Process Study" sometimes called a "Capability Study" this is certainly done when a process is new and you are trying to understand how it performs. Other times it is done is if you change the process, move the process, duplicate the process. All of which is negotiable with your customer to an extent. But there really is no need to do ANOTHER Initial Process Study later on if you are doing actual SPC. Anything you'd learn from a follow on study is described better and more reliably in your SPC data from the process.

    The point of the (often misused) Initial Process Study is to predict how your process will behave when you don't have historical knowledge. Actual historical knowledge, from storing your SPC data, will always be better than results obtained from an Initial Process Study.
     
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