View the Production Pareto chart
- Last UpdatedApr 24, 2025
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A Pareto chart is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual values are represented in descending order by bars, and the cumulative total is represented by the line.
The left vertical axis is the frequency of occurrence, but it can represent cost or another important unit of measure. The right vertical axis is the cumulative percentage of the total number of occurrences, total cost, or total of the unit of measure. Because the reasons are in decreasing order, the cumulative function is a concave function. The purpose of the Pareto chart is to highlight the most important among a set of factors.
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
In other words, this means that a small number of causes often account for a large portion of the problems. If you focus your efforts on the vital few causes, it is usually a better use of valuable resources. This chart has drill-down analysis capability.
Chart options
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Option |
Comment |
Fields |
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Aggregate |
Change which field is being totaled |
Any numeric custom field. |
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Group By |
Select the fields to group by. These fields display in the order set up by the DisplayOrder property of the field in Studio. |
Custom fields where the FieldType property is ID, and the DataType property is String. |
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Order By |
Control whether the summation or count is more significant, and then orders the columns in the chart accordingly |
Aggregate or Count |
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Display |
Control whether the chart displays the Equipment ID or the full path on the x-axis. |
When grouping by Location. |
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Show |
Control how many columns are on the chart. |
All of them, Top 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, or 15. |
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Include 'others' |
The option to "Show X" displays a column (on the far right) that constitutes the ‘rest’ of the energy events. |