STATISTICAL = Numbers and Data PROCESS = manufacturing processes that we can collect data (usually from the outputs) CONTROL = predictable behavior; with SPC results from a maintained process, the future outputs can be predicted within some boundaries NOTE: SPC can also tell us if a process outputs are “capable” and that means can meet requirements

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