Lab No: 4

Calculate the Capability ratio CP and Cpk Using Minitab

Introduction:
The two statistics have a lot in common. The smaller the standard deviation, the greater both
statistics are. In fact, under the right conditions, Cp and Cpk have exactly the same value..The
equation for Cp is often written ET / NT. ET stands for Engineering Tolerance, which is the
width between the specification limits. NT stands for Natural Tolerance, which is the width that
should contain almost all of the data from the process. Traditionally, NT is 6 times the standard
deviation. We often describe Cp as the capability the process could achieve if the process was
perfectly centered between the specification limits. Often we describe Cpk as the capability the
process is achieving whether or not the mean is centered between the specification limits.

Objectives:
The purpose of this lab report is to check the process is capable or not for product according to costumer’s
requirements and to calculate the CP an CPK values of a given data using Minitab.

Procedure:
 First of all Open Minitab and type all the data in column wise as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1
 Click on
(stat> Quality tools> capability analysis> normal) so you will get a window where you select the
columns and sub groups As shown in figure 2.

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Figure 2

 After a window appear then select the column of data and also here have 4 subgroups.Then give
some costumer’s specification LSL is 6.11 and USL is 6.72. as shown in figure 3.

Figure 3

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 Then click on the ok so the required graph will show having CP and CPk values.

Figure 4

Result and Discussions:

The specification limits here are define, The sample mean of this data is 6,Cp= 1.78 and Cpk = 1.63.It is
capable because Cp is greater than 1.

Conclusion:
Frome this lab we conclude that the cp and cpk values can easily be find on minitab.

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