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Dear Prakash,
Positional variation is also known as “within part” variation.
In manufacturing processes it would normally be the
variation across a part (eg surface finish) or the variation
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across a unit containing many parts or by position in a batch
@Iain-Hastings process. Without knowing the service industry that you had
in mind it is a bit diffficult to come up with a relevent
example. But anywhere that you are processing multiple
items at the same time or in the same equipment would
allow for positional variance (baking cookies? – variation
due to position in the oven, washing dishes?- does
cleanliness depend on where the dish is in the dishwasher)
Cyclical or part-to-part variation is the variation between
consecutive units or the batch to batch average differences
(again consecutive). So if you are in the hotel industry and it
takes you 2 minutes to check-in Guest A and 3 minutes to
check in Guest B…you get the picture.
Temporal would be related to shift-to-shift or day-to-day. Or
more generally anything that you did not include in the other
2 categories. Any seasonal variations might also be
considered here. An example would be if a process
dependent on the day of the month.
Regards,
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mjones,
Good post and an excellent example…. I was going to reply
with a database example but yours is better… Nicely done…
Best Regards,
Bob J
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