The standards that ask for control charts
One page per document, written for the person who has just been handed a clause and needs to know what it actually requires before deciding what to buy. We are not a standards body: each page links the source and says which parts are our reading of it.
ISO 7870 — the control chart standard, part by part
The international framework for control charts, prepared by ISO/TC 69/SC 4. What each of the six parts covers, which one you actually need, and which of them this platform implements.
Read → AIAG & VDAThe AIAG & VDA SPC manual (2026)
The harmonised automotive SPC manual published on 1 July 2026 replaces the 2005 AIAG SPC 2nd edition and the parallel VDA guidance. What changed, what it now expects of your charts, and what that means for tooling.
Read → NHS EnglandNHS Making Data Count and the NHS SPC tool
NHS England's programme for replacing RAG-rated board reports with control charts. What it teaches, how its conventions differ from industrial SPC, and the free tools that implement it.
Read → FDA / EU GMPFDA continued process verification (Stage 3) and EU GMP
Pharmaceutical SPC has a regulatory name. What the FDA's 2011 process validation guidance and EU GMP Annex 15 ask for in Stage 3, and what a charting tool can honestly contribute inside a GMP quality system.
Read → SAE / IAQGAS9103 — variation management of key characteristics
The aerospace standard that asks for the variation of key characteristics to be managed rather than inspected. What that means in practice on a low-volume line.
Read → SEMISEMI E10, E79 and SPC in the fab
The SEMI standards that define equipment reliability and productivity metrics, how they relate to statistical process control, and where univariate charts stop being enough in a fab.
Read → Codex / BRCGS / IFS / FSSCHACCP and SPC — critical limits are not control limits
Where statistical process control fits inside HACCP monitoring, why a critical limit and a control limit must never share an axis, and what the food audit standards actually ask for.
Read →Or start from your industry
- The industry pages — how SPC is actually run in automotive, pharmaceutical, healthcare, semiconductor, food and aerospace, each with a worked chart from that sector.