Course Objectives

The aim is that by the end of the course, a participant will understand:

• How to navigate within Minitab and perform basic operations
• A variety of Minitab statistical tools
• Set-up of dialogue boxes
• Interpretation of Minitab output
• Formatting of data and graphs for reporting and presentation

Target Audience

This course is appropriate for improvement practitioners, facilitators, managers, analysts, team leaders, quality personnel and administrative staff, who are involved in process management, problem-solving and improvement activities.

Agenda Day 1

• Start 09:00 – Introductions and Review of Agenda
• Minitab General Guidance
  Managing worksheets and graphs
  Useful commands and shortcuts
  Minitab Assistant
• Basic Data Analysis
  Descriptive statistics
  Pareto chart
  Run chart
  Boxplot
  Multi-Vari chart
  Histogram
  Normal distribution and probability plot
  Scatterplot
  Cause & effect diagram
  Pie chart
• Variables Control Charts
  Xbar & R chart
  Xbar & S chart
  I-MR chart
• End 16:30 – End of Day 1

Agenda Day 2

• Start 09:00 – Attributes Control Charts
  p chart
  np chart
  c chart
  u chart
• Process Capability
  Cp & Cpk indices
  Pp & Ppk indices
  Non-normal capability
• Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
  Gauge R&R study
  Attribute agreement study
• Hypothesis Testing
  z test
  t test
  Test of proportions
  Equivalence test
• Reporting and Presentation of Minitab Results
• Finish 16:30 – Review & closing summary