What’s a three-way chart, and why would I need one?

Annie Dudley Zangi
Annie Dudley Zangi|April 18, 2012

When I was at the JMP Discovery Summit last year, several people asked me, “What’s a three-way chart and why would I need one?” Not everyone needs one, but some might. In this blog post, I’ll tell you more about them and why you might want to use them. The [...]

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Three-way charts, an evolution of the Presummarize Control Chart

Annie Dudley Zangi
Annie Dudley Zangi|April 11, 2012

Many years ago, we added the Presummarized control charts to JMP version 5 at the request of folks in the semiconductor industry. While there are many types of Presummarized control charts, one of the most common is the chart called, “Individuals on Group Means,” which plots the subgroup average just [...]

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Nesting variables in the Control Chart Builder

Annie Dudley Zangi
Annie Dudley Zangi|April 4, 2012

In my first Control Chart Builder blog post “Control Charts are easy in JMP 10,” I used a column named “Date” on the X-axis. When I downloaded the data, it didn’t arrive as a date; I had to create the date column from the original month and year columns. Traditionally, [...]

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Custom Tests in the Control Chart Builder in JMP 10

Annie Dudley Zangi
Annie Dudley Zangi|March 28, 2012

In my last blog post, I noted that the Control Chart Builder is an overhaul of the older Control Chart platform. One of the most requested features for Control Charts was to offer a way to customize the tests that flag out-of-control samples. I’m happy to report that the new [...]

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Control Charts are easy in JMP 10

Annie Dudley Zangi
Annie Dudley Zangi|March 21, 2012

  JMP 10 introduces a snazzy way to create control charts with a new platform called Control Chart Builder. JMP’s prior Control Charts were designed over two decades ago for the classic process engineer in manufacturing and were past due for an overhaul. The more we listened to which customers [...]

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Process control charts with drag & drop in JMP 10

Daniel Valente
Daniel Valente|March 13, 2012

Sometimes you don’t know what kind of hidden information is within your process measures, and feeding your data to a control chart chosen from a library can hide as much as it reveals. In contrast, Control Chart Builder in JMP 10 lets you dive deeper into your process control data [...]

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Bradley Jones wins ASQ Brumbaugh Award again

Arati Korwar
Arati Korwar|January 19, 2012

For the second time in three years, the American Society for Quality has named Bradley Jones, Principal Research Fellow at JMP, a recipient of the ASQ Brumbaugh Award. Jones and his co-author, Chris Nachtsheim of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, won the award for their [...]

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New topics for Mastering JMP webcasts this autumn

Gail Massari
Gail Massari|September 9, 2011

The autumn lineup of live Mastering JMP webcasts is set. And if you are one of the 2,000+ JMP users who attended a live webcast during the first half of 2011, you’ll notice some new topics: • Sept. 29: Finding the Best Predictive Model for Your Data • Oct. 6: [...]

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3 steps to using data and Lean Six Sigma to drive decisions

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Rachel Alt-Simmons|July 12, 2011

In these long, hot (and wet! at least in the Northeast) days of summer, while people are off on vacation and doing other summer-type stuff, I’ve decided to use the “down” time to do something new. I’m working on a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project around increasing the effectiveness [...]

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Bradley Jones appointed as new editor of Journal of Quality Technology

John Sall
John Sall|June 29, 2011

Journal of Quality Technology has appointed Bradley Jones as its new editor starting next year. JQT is a journal published by ASQ that emphasizes applied techniques in industrial statistics, including experimental design, Brad’s specialty. Brad’s current role at SAS is Principal Research Fellow at JMP, where he develops software for [...]

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