Houston ASQ Meeting Presentation Slides and Recording: Variable Control Chart Failures and How to Make Them Work for You

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This March 20, 2025, Houston ASQ meeting presentation shows how variable control charts can give false signals and what to do to address the problem.

 

Provided below is a summary of the meeting’s agenda, a PDF copy of the presentation slides, and a recording of the meeting’s content.

 

Have you ever struggled with unexplained out-of-control signals on a variable control chart, only to find no apparent reason for the fluctuations? If so, you’re not the only one!

 

Variable Control Charts Can Give False Signals: The Hidden Flaws of Traditional Control Charting

Despite being around for over a century, conventional variable control charts have some mathematical properties that can mislead organizations into making poor decisions—wasting time, resources, and effort on unnecessary actions.

 

variable control charts can give false signals

 

Topics Covered in the March 20, 2025 ASQ Meeting that Address Variable Control Charts Can Give False Signals

✅ How traditional control charts can drive firefighting behaviors—mistaking common-cause variation for special-cause issues—and how to avoid this costly trap.

✅ How to assess process stability from a customer’s perspective, ensuring your quality measures align with real-world expectations.

✅ How to generate forward-looking performance insights, such as predicting non-conformance rates for stable processes.

✅ The right time to launch process improvement initiatives, like Lean Six Sigma projects, to drive meaningful change.

✅ A free, next-generation metric reporting app that eliminates the common pitfalls of variable control charting—so you can focus on real improvements, not chasing noise.

✅ A smarter approach to real-time, predictive performance reporting, enabling your organization to stay ahead with automatically updated, insightful metrics.

 

Copy of the Presentation Slides

2025-03-20 ASQ Houston Meeting, Why Variable Charts Fail and How to Make them Work for You

 

Meeting Recording

Because of technical meeting recording problems, I am providing a previous ASQ Austin webinar link covering the same topic.

 

2 thoughts on “Houston ASQ Meeting Presentation Slides and Recording: Variable Control Chart Failures and How to Make Them Work for You”

    1. Forrest Breyfogle

      Sorry you could not attend my presentation. A recording of the meeting content and a PDF of my presentation slides is available at https://smartersolutions.com/houston-asq-meeting-variable-control-chart-failures-and-how-to-make-them-work-for-you.html/.

      I suggest that we meet to discuss benefits and application of the described methods.

      You can schedule a video meeting session with me through the link https://smartersolutions.com/schedule-zoom-session/

      Forrest

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