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Quality Analytics with Python Training Course

Shows how to analyze inspection and production data in Python, quantify variation, automate calculations and build repeatable quality workflows.

SPC · Statistical Process Control & Quality AnalyticsAll Levels#2919ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Course Overview

Quality analytics enables organizations to transform inspection, production, and operational data into actionable insights that support informed decisions, reduce defects, and improve process consistency. Python provides a flexible environment for analyzing quality data, identifying variation, automating calculations, and developing repeatable analytical workflows that strengthen quality management and continuous improvement. This course focuses on practical applications of Python in quality analytics, covering data preparation, exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, visualization, statistical testing, process capability analysis, and Statistical Process Control (SPC). Participants will work with specialized Python libraries, including pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, and SciPy, to organize datasets, calculate quality indicators, evaluate process performance, and identify patterns that may signal emerging quality problems. Through hands-on exercises and realistic quality datasets, participants will develop the skills to automate routine calculations, analyze defect trends, evaluate process variation, and communicate findings through clear visualizations and reports. The course emphasizes practical techniques that can be integrated into quality assurance, manufacturing, inspection, supplier quality, and continuous improvement activities.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the role of Python-based analytics in quality management and process improvement.
  • Prepare, clean, validate, and organize quality datasets using Python.
  • Use pandas and NumPy to automate data processing and statistical calculations.
  • Calculate descriptive statistics and identify patterns in quality performance.
  • Create visualizations that reveal defects, variation, and process trends.
  • Apply statistical tests to investigate differences in quality performance.
  • Calculate and interpret process capability indices, including Cp and Cpk, where applicable.
  • Develop control charts and assess process stability using appropriate methods.
  • Identify recurring defects, unusual observations, and potential sources of variation.
  • Produce reproducible analytical reports that support evidence-based quality decisions.

Who Should Attend

Quality assurance and quality control managers and engineers. Quality analysts and professionals responsible for quality reporting. Manufacturing, production, and process engineers. Data analysts working with inspection, production, and performance data. Continuous improvement and operational excellence specialists. Six Sigma practitioners and process improvement professionals. Supplier quality and incoming inspection specialists. Laboratory and testing professionals handling measurement data. Reliability and maintenance engineers analyzing operational performance. Professionals seeking to develop practical Python skills for quality analysis.

Learning Outcomes

  • Import quality datasets from common file formats and organize them for analysis.
  • Clean datasets by addressing missing values, duplicate records, inconsistent entries, and formatting issues.
  • Use pandas and NumPy to perform calculations and manipulate quality data efficiently.
  • Summarize quality performance using descriptive statistics and grouped analysis.
  • Create charts to identify trends, outliers, defect patterns, and variation.
  • Apply suitable statistical tests to compare quality results across groups or time periods.
  • Calculate and interpret Cp and Cpk when the required statistical assumptions are satisfied.
  • Generate and interpret control charts using appropriate process data and methods.
  • Automate recurring quality calculations and analytical tasks using reusable Python scripts.
  • Present findings through clear visualizations, analytical summaries, and actionable recommendations.

Course Outline

Day 1

Python Fundamentals and Quality Data Preparation

  • Introduction to Python and its applications in quality analytics.
  • Working with development environments and interactive notebooks.
  • Variables, data types, operators, conditional statements, and basic functions.
  • Importing quality data from CSV and Excel files.
  • Using pandas DataFrames and NumPy arrays for data manipulation.
  • Cleaning data by handling missing values, duplicates, inconsistent entries, and formatting issues.
  • Practical Exercise: Import and clean an inspection dataset containing product measurements, defect classifications, and production records.
Day 2

Exploratory Data Analysis and Quality Visualization

  • Structuring and summarizing quality datasets using pandas.
  • Calculating mean, median, range, variance, and standard deviation.
  • Grouping and comparing quality performance by product, production line, shift, or supplier.
  • Identifying missing information, outliers, and unusual data patterns.
  • Creating histograms, box plots, scatterplots, and trend charts using Matplotlib.
  • Analyzing defect frequencies, rejection rates, and Pareto distributions.
  • Practical Exercise: Analyze a production quality dataset and develop visualizations highlighting major defect categories and performance trends.
Day 3

Statistical Analysis and Process Capability

  • Applying probability and statistical concepts to quality datasets.
  • Using SciPy for statistical analysis and hypothesis testing.
  • Comparing process measurements and defect rates across different groups.
  • Interpreting statistical significance and confidence intervals.
  • Understanding process stability and the prerequisites for capability analysis.
  • Calculating and interpreting Cp and Cpk using suitable process data.
  • Practical Exercise: Use Python to compare process performance, test a quality improvement hypothesis, and calculate capability indices where appropriate.
Day 4

Statistical Process Control and Defect Analysis

  • Principles of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and its application in quality monitoring.
  • Preparing process data for control chart analysis.
  • Developing and interpreting appropriate control charts for variables and attributes.
  • Detecting unusual variation, trends, and potential process instability.
  • Analyzing recurring defects and identifying patterns across operational categories.
  • Using structured data analysis to support root cause investigations.
  • Practical Exercise: Build a Python-based quality monitoring analysis and investigate process variation signals in a simulated production dataset.
Day 5

Automation, Reporting, and Quality Improvement Applications

  • Automating recurring quality calculations using reusable Python functions.
  • Combining data preparation, statistical analysis, and visualization in a repeatable workflow.
  • Creating summary tables and charts for quality performance reporting.
  • Analyzing before-and-after results to evaluate improvement initiatives.
  • Documenting analytical assumptions, limitations, and findings.
  • Developing practical recommendations based on quality data and statistical evidence.
  • Practical Exercise: Complete an end-to-end quality analytics project using Python and present a report with key findings, visualizations, and improvement recommendations.

Upcoming Dates

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Baku · 1 – 5 Mar 2027 · Classroom

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