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Communication & influence · Simplifying the complex

A line supervisor keeps reacting to every single out-of-spec reading by stopping the line and re-tooling. In two minutes at the SPC chart, how do you get across the difference between common-cause and special-cause variation so it changes what he does?

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A line supervisor keeps reacting to every single out-of-spec reading by stopping the line and re-tooling. In two minutes at the SPC chart, how do you get across the difference between common-cause and special-cause variation so it changes what he does?

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