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SPC: A Visible Competitive Advantage
Written by Traci Terterian   
The best companies use Statistical Process Control to provide real-time visibility into their manufacturing operations, a practice essential to controlling costs, improving quality, and increasing customer satisfaction according to an influential research group.
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DataNet's Quality Roots Run Deep
Written by Traci Terterian   
DataNet founder, Hugh Greenberg, reminisces about the company's 67 year quality legacy.
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Guideline for Selecting Data Collection Software
Written by Traci Terterian   
Data collection software is an essential tool for gathering and managing endless streams of data. Here's what to look for in a top quality data collection system. 
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Overcoming the Statistical Avalanche
Written by Traci Terterian   
With statisticians and quality engineers required to analyze ever-increasing amounts of complex quality and business data, the need for statistical software is certain.
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Quality at Any Cost?
Written by Traci Terterian   
In an ever-competitive global marketplace, if companies don’t develop systematic means to measure and manage the costs of quality—business failure costs— they will fail.
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The Statistician at Risk of Becoming a Statistic?
Written by Traci Terterian   
Unless they find ways to expand their roles and increase their value in the business world, the statistician's days may be numbered.
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What is Business Performance Excellence?
Written by Steven Ouellette   
Many companies strive to be the best in their market. Most never succeed. Many of the ones that do, do so only temporarily, and subsequently lose their position through misunderstanding how they got there and what is needed to stay there.
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Making the Ca$e for SPC
Written by Steven Ouellette   
I am sometimes faced with the task of "selling" the implementation of statistical process control (SPC) to companies. There are a number of ways to do this, each way tailored to the person you need to convince. Let's focus on one.
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Capability Indices Can Deceive
Written by Allise Wachs, Ph.D.   
While they are widely used to report process capability, process capability indices such as Cp, Cpk, Pp, and Ppk are almost always misleading.
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The Hidden Costs of Poor Quality
Written by Gerald Lee   
Written by Gerald Lee and published in the December 07 issue of Quality Digest, this article discusses some of the obvious and less obvious opportunities lost due to poor quality, as well as an obscure and misunderstood cost that offers the turnaround opportunity of significant savings: the safety margin.
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Are You Capable? Measurements, Part 3
Written by Steven Ouellette   
Published in the August issue of Quality Digest, Steven Ouellette continues exploring ways to measure the effect of sigma.
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Saving Money and Time With SPC
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DataNet Quality Systems' WinSPC Software
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NIST Standards Work Enhances Shop-floor Productivity
Written by RP news wires   
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers, together with colleagues from industry and other standards organizations have completed a five-part series of standards designed to evaluate the accuracy — and thus usability — of manufacturing measurements.
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Calculating ROI for Automation Projects
Written by Douglas C. White   
This whitepaper, authored by Douglas C. White from Emerson Process Management, offers an excellent tutorial for calculating return-on-investment to gain funding for automation programs.
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Seven Basic Quality Tools
Written by Nancy R. Tague   
This article goes over the most fundamental quality control tools that include Histograms, Pareto chart, control charts, scatter diagram.
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Do You Use SPC Correctly?
Written by Allise Wachs, Ph.D.   
Misapplication of Statistical Process Control Can Damage Your Operations.
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Comparing Apples to Apples for SPC
Written by   
Disparate file formats present significant challenges for plant-wide SPC systems, filtering each format for use on a single statistical-analysis platform. But an automated solution may make things easier.
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Quality Software & Analysis: SPC Advances Improve Manufacturing
Written by Frank J. Tappen and Beena Anand   
SPC’s history as a quality tool is a good one, with great things to come.
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Implementing Enterprise-Wide SPC Software
Written by Ned W. Greenberg   
To function as part of an enterprise information system, SPC software must do far more than produce colorful charts and graphs.
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Project Cost Justification
Written by Stephen Arnett   
You've identified a new system that will improve quality. Now, you need to show management a compelling financial ROI and convince your colleagues that the new system's benefits will outweigh the strain and pain of implementation. Here's how to gain support for your proposal.
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Manufacturers Find Business Intelligence Elusive
Written by Doug Bartholomew   
Real-time data is the key to greater operations visibility.
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A New Approach: Enterprise wide Quality Management Systems
Written by Ned Greenberg and Leonard Hemphill   
A new breed of quality management software integrates quality software applications with business automation systems.
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