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Regression and Advanced Process Control

Regression plot

Regression analysis can uncover information where you thought none existed.

  • Three-day course
  • Taught at your facilities
  • Option to combine it with projects
  • Use statistical software (such as MinitabTM) to run regressions and analyze non-stationary processes
  • For technical and senior supervisory staff in the process industries
  • Analyse data from your on-line data collection systems
  • Find trends and relationships between process parameters

Regression and advanced process control. Course Agenda

Module 1: Regression

Regression in process improvement

Relationships between outputs and inputs

Do the data fit the model? Residual plots.

Regression with more than one input

Analysis of covariance

Interpretation of regression analyses

Logistic regression for pass/fail data

Module 2: Introduction to advanced statistical process control techniques.

The Cusum chart

EWMA charts
Adjustment charts

Module 3: Understanding Dynamic Processes

Properties of dynamic processes

Properties of time series from industrial processes

Stationary models

Non-stationary models

Tools for understanding stationary and non-stationary processes

Some pointers on autocorrelation.

Fitting ARIMA models

Implications for process control

Module 4: Multivariate tools

Fundamentals of multivariate analysis

Principal components analysis

Applications in the process industries.



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