The Station Dashboard is available through the Operations portal. This dashboard displays the station status, quality charts, and sampling plans.

The Station Dashboard has the following main areas.

Station settings

The station settings are in a pane that can be expanded to change settings and collapsed to view the control charts more easily.

The station is online.

The station is offline.

When the station is on, you can do the following.
Product/Process
Select which product and process to monitor. Many products and processes can use the same station, and each combination has its own sampling plans and control charts.
Status
Select whether the online station is Running, Idle, or Shutdown.
Sampling Plans
Lists the sampling plans for the current product, process, and station.

For on-demand and scheduled collections, select Start to open the data collection form. Open the Settings to skip the next collection.

Chart and date selector

Toggle between the control charts, data tables, and Pareto charts for each measure of the station.

Specify the start time for this dashboard. Generally, this view is for the last 4 hours of data, but can show up to 7 days of data.

Pause or resume data collection

Select Pause Data to pause the station data at any time. Select Resume Data to continue collecting data at this station.

Open the Settings to the change the control chart display options.

Export data

You can export the data from the selected time range to a Minitab worksheet (MWX) or to a CSV file.

Control charts, data tables, and Pareto charts

Control Charts
Displays control charts for each measure. The control charts also indicate the percentage of plotted points that are out-of-specification, out-of-action, or out-of-control. For more information on these calculations, go to Current Performance Summary.
Engineers can hide control charts by measure on the station dashboard. This setting is on the Components page in the process step on the product. For each control chart, you can display all the charts, only the first chart, or no charts. For more information, go to Control chart settings for each measure, then select Display on station dashboard.
Note

Real-Time SPC may limit the amount of data that is shown in the control charts to ensure optimum readability. To display more data, if available, select the link in the footer of the chart.

Data
View and edit chart data on a spreadsheet. Each row includes appropriate descriptors, tags, and specification limits. To edit, select a row and then select Edit Subgroup or Edit Observation. For more information on interpreting the data tables, go to View data for each measure.

You can also edit the data from the control chart view. For more information, go to Edit observations.

Defect Types
Pareto charts identify the most frequent defect types. Use Pareto charts to focus improvement efforts on areas where the largest gains can be made. Real-Time SPC creates a separate Pareto chart for each defect severity.
Defective Types
Real-Time SPC creates a separate Pareto chart for individual defective types and grouped defective types.

Use Pareto charts to investigate the types of defectives and the assignable causes and corrective actions. For more information, go to Pareto charts for defects and defectives.