Calculating dppm

In my last post I introduced the idea of using the JSL script editor as a simple command line calculator; and prior to that I discussed how process capability indices (Cp,Cpk) are a convenient shorthand notation but suffer from lack of transparency.  Today I will bring these two themes together by showing how I can use the JSL script editor to calculate defective parts per million (dppm) for a given set of capability indices Cp and Cpk.

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