is being presented by Steven Walfish, Statistician, with GE Healthcare and airs on Wednesday, December 8th, 2010. For more details or to register, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com
There are several methods to trend data to highlight both the preventative and corrective nature of the system. Plotting data over time is a good visual method to identify trends. Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques such as control charts give an objective method to identify trends. The intention of trending is two-fold, first it is to identify before the system goes out of control the potential for problems. Secondly, it helps to show improvement after a change to the system. Trending analysis can be applied to complaints, process data, nonconformances, CAPA and other quality system data.
Participants in this audio conference gain an increase in their awareness of how trending analysis can be used to report systematic data to management. Beyond graphical methods, the presentation covers statistical methods such as weighted moving averages and low occurrence trending.
