Objectives

• Understand the statistical tools relevant to auditing and the fundamental concepts behind them.
• Practice with follow-along exercises, using Minitab™ statistical software to apply statistical tools. Course exercises show what impact the tools have on the full range of audit activities.
• Enhance your ability to prepare for an audit, conduct an audit, and verify the effectiveness of corrective actions initiated by process owners.

Topics

• Basic descriptive statistics
• The normal distribution, including assessing normality and transforming to normality
• Data collection, sampling, and sampling approaches
• Measurement system analysis (gage R&R and attribute agreement analysis)
• Statistical process control (SPC)
• Process capability analysis (discrete data and continuous data)
• Linear regression applied to verify cause-and-effect relationships
• Introduction to regression analysis

Who Should Attend

This course is aimed at lead auditors, experienced internal auditors, supplier auditors, certification body auditors, audit program managers, quality managers, quality engineers, and management representatives. It will be of particular interest to those who have successfully completed the Oriel STAT A MATRIX Advanced Lead Auditor training.