Minitab Cookbook

Creating Pareto charts

A Pareto chart is a bar chart that is displayed in descending order by default. It is typically used to display the largest defect types. Here, we will create a Pareto defect chart with a frequency column. The data used in this example will look at manufacturing defects for textiles.

Column 1 contains the nature of the defect and column 2 contains the number of defects recorded.

How to do it…

The following instructions will create a Pareto chart from a table of defect and frequency:

1. Go to the File menu and select Open Worksheet….
2. Click on the button labeled Look in Minitab Sample Data folder and then open the ClothingDefect.MTW worksheet.
3. Go to the Stat menu and select Quality Tools… and then select Pareto Chart….
4. In the Defects ...