SPC

SPC can refer to:La Palma Airport (IATA Airport Code SPC)Samurai Pizza Cats, a cult classic anime show (known in Japan as Kyattou Ninden Teyandee)Secretariat of the Pacific Community, a Pacific Islands regional intergovernmental organisationSecure multiparty computation, a cryptography problem introduced in 1982.Segregated portfolio company, a specialised form of offshore companySerbian Orthodox Church - an Eastern Orthodox Christian Church Shepparton Preserving Company, a brand of jams and tinned goods founded in Shepparton, Victoria, AustraliaSingapore Petroleum Company Limited, a Singapore area oil companySingle photon counting, a light measurement technique used in many digital analysis physics-related disciplinesSocialist Party of Canada, Socialist Party of British Columbia, others - national and provincial political parties of CanadaSolid phase crystallisation, a crystallisation process used in semiconductor physicsSony Pictures Classics, speciality division of Sony Pictures EntertainmentSouth Park Coalition - a rap group from Houston, TexasSouthern Presbyterian Church (Australia)the Southwest Preparatory Conference, an interscholastic athletic league consisting of 19 elite private schools in Texas and OklahomaSPC Corporation, a Korean food company from Samlip Group.SPC700 sound format, the sound format used on the Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemSpecialist, a rank in the U.S. ArmySpecial police constableSpecial purpose companyStage pin connector a standard power cable connector.State Plane Coordinate System, a style of geographical coordinates relating to the United States. Statistical process control, a method for achieving quality control in manufacturing processesStorm Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service that deals with strong to severe weather eventsStored Program Control exchange, a type of telephone exchangeStudent Price Card, a loyalty card program in CanadaSubsidy Provider Code, a mechanism used by many telecommunications providers to restrict access to some configuration features of mobile phones, also known as a Service Provider Lock.Summary of Product Characteristics, Physician's information document used in the EU. Supplementary protection certificate, a sui generis intellectual property right.SPC file format, a file format used in spectroscopy
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An SPC700 sound file (or SPC) is a type of video game music file consisting of a copy of a program and music data from RAM used by the SPC700 sound chip on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Famicom (though such data are usually obtained from a console emulator such as ZSNES or Snes9x, rather than from the system itself). The SPC700 chip (or emulator thereof) produces sound by executing the embedded program, which processes the stored music data and transforms them to a sequence of DSP commands issued to the chip, which in turn produce the audio output in accordance to the DSP commands. The capabilities of the SPC700 DSP commands allow for music synthesis by samples (analogous to MOD or IT music playback), allowing long stretches of audio which would likely take up several megabytes—even hundreds, for particularly lengthy pieces—if stored as a digital waveform (using PCM or similar), to be produced from only 64 kilobytes of data. The SPC700 chip produces 16-bit sound at 32 kHz, but SPC700 emulators generally can be reconfigured to output at a different sampling rate (from 8 to 48 kHz).
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Specialist (abbreviated "SPC") is one section of the fourth enlisted rank in the U.S. Army, just above Private First Class and below Corporal. It shares the same enlisted pay grade as the Corporal. Unlike Corporals, Specialists are not considered junior non-commissioned officers (NCO).
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1. <business> Statistical Process Control. Something to do with quality management.
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2.  Software Productivity Centre.
3.  Software Publishing Corporation.
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The application of statistical techniques to control a process. The term "statistical quality control" is often used interchangeably with "statistical process control."

Storm Prediction Center. A national forecast center in Norman, Oklahoma, which is part of NCEP . The SPC is responsible for providing short-term forecast guidance for severe convection , excessive rainfall (flash flooding) and severe winter weather over the contiguous United States.

The term Statistical Process Control (SPC) is typically used in context of manufacturing processes (although it may also pertain to services and other activities), and it denotes statistical methods used to monitor and improve the quality of the respective operations. By gathering information about the various stages of the process and performing statistical analysis on that information, the SPC engineer is able to take necessary action (often preventive) to ensure that the overall process stays in-control and to allow the product to meet all desired specifications. SPC involves monitoring processes, identifying problem areas, recommending methods to reduce variation and verifying that they work, optimizing the process, assessing the reliability of parts, and other analytic operations. SPC uses such basic statistical quality control methods as quality control charts (Sheward, Pareto, and others), capability analysis, gage repeatability/reproducibility analysis, and reliability analysis. However, also specialized experimental methods (DOE ) and other advanced statistical techniques are often part of global SPC systems. Important components of effective, modern SPC systems are real-time access to data and facilities to document and respond to incoming QC data on-line, efficient central QC data warehousing , and groupware facilities allowing QC engineers to share data and reports (see also Enterprise SPC ).
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