A PC-BASED ANALYSIS PACKAGE FOR MEASUREMENT CONTROL

Systematic measurements of standards for measurement-control purposes can generate large volumes of data for analysis. Hand charting is tedious and error-prone, so automated computer analysis is one solution. Commercial software packages are available for such tasks, but licenses for these packages can be expensive and some packages are not available for the personal computers used at most sites. The Safeguards Systems Group at Los Alamos developed two simple measurement-control packages to meet the needs described. Users can execute two versions of MCCAT (Measurement Control Charts and Tests) from source code and in the BASIC or dBase III languages. The analytical tools in this package are described and their use is explained.