Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In process improvement efforts, the process performance index is an estimate of the process capability of a process during its initial set-up, before it has been brought into a state of statistical control. From a management standpoint, when an organization is under pressure to set ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In process improvement efforts, the process performance index is an estimate of the process capability of a process during its initial set-up, before it has been brought into a state of statistical control. From a management standpoint, when an organization is under pressure to set up a new process quickly and economically, Ppk is a convenient metric to gauge how set-up is progressing (increasing Ppk being interpreted as "the process capability is improving"). The risk is that Ppk is taken to mean a process is ready for production before all the kinks have been worked out of it. Once a process is put into a state of statistical control, process capability is described using process capability indices, which are formulaically identical to Ppk (and Pp). The indices are named differently to call attention to whether the process under study is believed to be in control or not.