Assigning a Cause, Action, or Comment

Click the Cause button, Action button, or Comment button on the Brushing tab of the Results dialog box to display the Assigning a Cause, Assigning an Action, or Assigning a Comment dialog box, respectively. These dialog boxes will also be displayed when you request automatic prompting for causes (actions/comments) after certain out-of-control conditions occur.

Cause (Action/Comment)

From this drop-down box, select the cause (action/comment) that you want to assign to the respective sample identified at the top of the dialog box.

Specify a new cause (action/comment)

Click the Specify a new cause (action/comment) button to define a new cause (action/comment).

Assign cause (action/comment) to

Select which graph to assign the cause (action/comment) to. For Attribute charts (when sigma is estimated from within-sample standard deviations), the options under Assign action to are not available.
  

For information on how to set up variables and specifications for causes and actions, see Causes, Actions, Comments, and Data Brushing Setup.