Automated Data Analysis and Report Generation of Key Characteristics (KC) Measurements

Abstract

Key characteristics are the features whose measurements must be held to nominal through process control, in order to minimise what Taguchi called the loss. Ken Vakil's subject is what happens to that data after the laser tracker has collected it: importing it, comparing actuals to nominals, and generating the analysis and the report automatically rather than by hand, so that the measurement effort turns into a decision instead of a spreadsheet.