A chart showing how a process is operating over time, with time or successive items or batches as the x-axis. On the y-axis are plotted key measures of the process and the limits (upper and lower control limits) in which the process is expected to operate. Applicable to all types of process: manufacturing, transactional and services. Used to highlight out of control behavior due to special cause variation. See Statistical Process Control.
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