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Industries Using WinSPC

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WinSPC has a proven track record in almost every industry. We are fascinated by the many ways our diverse base of customers has implemented WinSPC to improve quality. Whether your processes assemble, batch, build, etch, fill, heat treat, machine, mix, mold, package, proof, print, test, weld, or perform some other precision operation, similar processes are probably right now being controlled and improved with WinSPC. If your industry is not represented in the sampling below, please reach out to us so we can share our experiences with companies like yours.

Transportation and Defense

Manufacturers in the transportation and defense industries are required to verify parts are being made to customer specifications and are often expected to provide regular updates that ensure quality levels are being met. If you are currently only writing quality test results on paper or typing data into Excel, then the return on investment for an automated system is typically realized within 4 months. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…

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Consumer Goods and Construction Materials

 

Some of the world’s finest brands trust WinSPC as part of their continuous improvement and Six Sigma programs. In the consumer goods and construction materials marketplaces, brand quality and customer satisfaction mean everything. WinSPC allows manufacturers to consistently produce high quality products while continuously improving manufacturing productivity. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…

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Food and Beverage

WinSPC offers all the tools for food and beverage companies to automate data collection of weights, temperatures, and other product quality checks, and then control processes with real-time charts and alarms. Within the first 90 days, our customers tell us that they are able to dramatically reduce variability and improve performance-to-target. Plus, WinSPC provides powerful dashboard views, reports, and analysis tools to monitor activities and investigate issues. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…

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Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical

Today’s manufacturers of medical devices and pharmaceutical products often have hundreds of critical Quality tests to track during production and, in many cases, that data needs to be maintained for long periods of time. Attempting to apply SPC using paper or Excel is a common starting point. But these manual methods require a lot of overhead and offer little help in identifying root causes. Automating SPC activities can reveal hidden variations in a process, provide timely feedback to trends and patterns that lead to defects, and reduce the inaccuracy that is common with paper-based solutions. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…

Plastics and Packaging

Consistent package performance, whether a carton or bottle, is a critical trait that allows your customers to improve their filling line efficiency and minimize downtime due to package defects. Any changes in your lines that result in defects can quickly lead to excessive scrap costs or eventually force you to run at slower speeds in order to maintain quality standards. Implementing real-time SPC can help answer critical quality and process performance questions. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…

Semiconductor and Electronics

Several unique challenges face semiconductor and electronics manufacturers. Advanced complexity, continuously evolving fabrication, and accelerated schedules characterize the industry. A real-time SPC solution that fits into a high mix environment and can handle large volumes of data from metrology tools and test equipment capabilities is required. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…

WinSPC

WinSPC is software to help manufacturers optimize their processes, the end goal of which is the ultimate goal of all manufacturers–the highest quality products for the lowest possible cost. Firmly rooted in the science of SPC, WinSPC facilitates real-time statistical process control, in-depth analysis for process improvement, reporting to meet a diverse range of information needs, and automated compliance with regulatory requirements.

It’s easy to implement, easy to learn, and, perhaps most importantly, very easy to administer–with many tasks being able to be done in a single mouseclick.

WinSPC is installed on shop-floor computers where it is ideally positioned to capture data from virtually any source–serial devices, text files, Excel files, machines, gauges, enterprise databases and systems, and keyboards. As data is
captured, it is immediately displayed, allowing shop-floor personnel to monitor processes in real-time. Simultaneously, the data is tested against SPC rules and process-specific requirements. When one or more of these is violated, alarms are instantly triggered–alarms in the form of on-screen messages, audible sirens, priority e-mails, flashing indicators, or a number of other configurable actions. The real-time control these capabilities bring about can add millions to a company’s bottom line. Additional information is available on our Capture Data and Monitoring and Alarming pages as well as in the Capturing Data and Generating Alarms or Monitoring and Analyzing with Dashboards videos.

Additionally, WinSPC offers analysis capabilities that enable Quality teams to go beyond just controlling processes into new levels of process improvement. Engineers can search, filter, drill-down, and sort until they’ve isolated the data that needs to be investigated. They can, in a couple of mouseclicks, subject an operation’s historical data to a battery of statistical studies. They can even setup WinSPC to constantly be on the lookout for risks specific to their zones of responsibility. The tools WinSPC gives analysts result in statistically sound actionable intelligence capable of improving processes to heights previously thought unattainable. For more information on WinSPC’s analysis capabilities see the Analysis and Reporting page or the Monitoring and Analyzing with Dashboards video.

As for reporting, manufacturers have many information needs–needs of executives, engineers, suppliers, customers, upstream and downstream operations, and supervisors. WinSPC’s out-of-the-box report templates, which number over 90, cover all the key areas: Quality, production, cost, and more. Each is professionally formatted and can generate a report with just a few clicks of the mouse. The knowledge shared through WinSPC reports makes for a team that is united and focused on common goals.

For more details on this topic, see the Analysis and Reporting page or watch the Generating Reports video.

To get an overview on how WinSPC automates regulatory compliance for companies in regulated industries, see the Achieve Regulatory Compliance page.

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