Quality management · The capability measure · Element

The stability

Whether the process behaves consistently over time.

The part

What it is

Capability calculated on an unstable process is meaningless, because the next period will differ.

Stability comes first: a stable but incapable process can be improved predictably, while an unstable one cannot be assessed at all.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.