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A resource of data collection tools, including how to collect data, how much to collect, and how frequently to collect it.
Tools for analyzing and interpreting data so that the areas to improve become apparent.
Formulas for calculating control limits, capability indices, and more, plus the tables referred to in these calculations.
This complete glossary of quality tools, symbols, and abbreviations includes definitions for more than 200 quality terms.
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For decades, PQ Systems has delivered reliable statistical quality and production control tools to help manufacturers ensure quality and compliance.
PQSystems SPC and Gage Management solutions empower you to maintain high standards and achieve operational excellence.
A free online reference for statistical process control ,process capability analysis, measurement systems analysis, control chart
PQ Systems provides intuitive solutions to help manufacturers optimize process performance, improve product quality, and mitigate supply chain risk. Simple and intuitive, yet accurate and complete, our solutions will help you achieve quality improvement success. PQ Systems SPC and gage management quality improvement solutions are relied on across an array of industries, ranging from aerospace to healthcare.
Harness the power of data analysis to increase customer satisfaction, improve audit success, and meet quality compliance requirements with statistical process control (SPC) software. PQ Systems delivers a robust SPC application that will help you easily analyze your data, understand and improve your processes, and communicate important quality information. Whether it’s for use on a single line or in a global multi-site operation, we provide a scalable, easy-to-use software solution to help you optimize quality that is simple to deploy, implement, and operate. Features include:
Stay organized and maintain gage inventory, measurement systems analysis (MSA) study results, calibrations, and certificates—all in one place. PQ Systems is a complete calibration management solution that provides easy access to all of your gage information including usage, calibration schedules, procedures, history, and more. This gage tracking software will help audit-proof your measurement system and give your team complete device traceability and precise calibration records.
Our gage management software is designed to save time and mitigate risk by organizing and managing your measurement system information. The audit trail maintains a robust and precise record of changes to gages and events to comply with industry standards. Features include:
At Advantive, our team of SPC experts are dedicated to helping manufacturing clients improve their quality processes and get the maximum return on their software investment. With more than three decades of experience in quality improvement, we know the problems and challenges you face and provide the flexible solutions, quality improvement consultations, hands-on training, and unrivaled customer service you need to succeed today.
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Before manufacturers can improve quality, they need to measure. At Advantive, we offer statistical quality control (SQC) software to monitor and manage quality across your shop floor—ensuring that each product meets regulatory requirements and customer specifications. Although similar to SPC software, our SQC tools measure outputs instead of inputs and provide the essential data that leaders need to make process improvement decisions.
To continuously improve manufacturing processes and minimize variability during production, SQC software gathers data from a specific sample size of a product and analyzes its performance statistics. By monitoring process outputs, our real-time SQC system helps you understand production value and can change the way you approach quality.
SQC software enables the collection of relevant, meaningful quality data in real-time at specific points along the production or assembly line. Line operators and plant floor managers can also access this detailed data in real-time to make instant adjustments to the quality of products.
To meet the diverse needs of manufacturing quality control, our SQC software includes different methodologies to monitor and maintain the quality of products. One method of SQC is acceptance sampling, which can be used to randomly inspect a sample of goods. A decision is made to accept or reject a batch of goods based on the results of the sample.
Another method of SQC is statistical process control (SPC), which uses graphical charts or visuals to determine whether a process should be continued or adjusted to achieve desired quality. SPC control charts are foundational quality control tools and figure prominently in Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma efforts. Control charts are used in a variety of ways, but on the shop floor, operators use them as a means of assessing, controlling, and ensuring the consistency of manufacturing processes. By controlling processes, operators can minimize significant process changes that can result in off-quality products. Our highly configurable control charts will ensure that you have the best control chart for detecting the right type of variation, resulting in reduced defects and greater process consistency.
Data collected over time can be rolled up and accessed through a centralized unified data repository, enabling quality professionals and facility supervisors to meet some of the most important objectives of statistical quality control: supporting continuous improvement over time and revealing opportunities for cost savings, reduced waste, improved workflow, and greater efficiencies. At the top level, Six Sigma professionals and executives can use historical SPC data for predictive analytics, comparing quality control data across lines, products, processes, and sites to determine where performance is highest–and where improvements can yield dramatic improvements in profitability.
We have made numerous investments in technology to help support our quality initiatives, and InfinityQS SCS allows us to bring everything together. We can now assimilate data from different systems and device locations into one centralized hub for easy analysis and decision-making.
President and COO
InfinityQS was the piece we needed to elevate our already strong processes and move toward manufacturing targets. We run to target because that is what our consumers want—and because it costs the company less due to the efficiencies SPC creates.
Quality Manager
The addition of InfinityQS to SanDisk’s existing system infrastructure gives us a significantly more responsive and effective production environment. InfinityQS has proven vital in resolving issues we didn’t even know we had.
Regional CIO
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Advantive delivers actionable, problem-solving software solutions for specialty manufacturers and wholesale distributors that simplify processes, optimize performance, and increase revenues.
Product quality can make or break your manufacturing company’s success. That’s why you need a reliable quality management system (QMS) in place. At Advantive, our QMS solution provides a formalized platform that accurately tracks product specifications, documents processes, manages industry regulations, and helps you consistently meet quality standards.
At Advantive, we focus on providing accessible technology that drives transformational outcomes for manufacturers. Our specialized quality management systems include the tools and functionality you need to collect, test, and inspect products, meet customer and regulatory requirements, and ultimately, produce the highest quality products.
Our quality management software is integrated throughout your entire manufacturing facility to provide complete operational visibility. As information flows from one department to another, decisions can be made automatically to improve quality, productivity, on-time delivery, efficiency, and more.
Manage quality test requirements and results locally, regionally, and corporate-wide with our flexible QMS software.
Improve internal compliance with QA test plans and ISO requirements. If tests are skipped or results are not recorded, notification is recorded accordingly. When jobs are completed, documentation of results (including COCs and COAs) can be printed and/or emailed to appropriate parties. Because accurate results are recorded directly on the factory floor, you have the ability to respond to customer complaints and product returns with factual data. Having access to test results in real time also enables quality managers and others to examine and evaluate test results prior to shipping inferior products.
Optimize and reduce raw material and finished goods inventory. Eliminate costly material outages. Analyze what-if scenarios and market trends using multi-plant and corporate forecasts. Plan a group of similar production facilities or regional plant groupings to analyze and optimize material usage. Utilize tactical and strategic planning tools to manage long-term business strategies and more.
By utilizing InfinityQS to implement SPC and Six Sigma best practices across our manufacturing processes, Ben & Jerry’s will continue to identify opportunities for cost savings and ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction. The result is the perfect pint for our customers.
Quality Supervisor
I would recommend PQ Systems to any company that needs to gain control over their gage measurement system and have the confidence to be in compliance when it comes to ISO and AS auditors.
Facility Manager
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Today’s electronics manufacturing industry is highly competitive, with a continual need to produce high quality products while driving down costs. As a result, electronics manufacturers need real-time visibility–within plants and across the globe–to proactively maximize yields, lower costs, reduce scrap and waste, and ensure part and product traceability.
Keep up in this fast-paced and dynamic market space while improve your most pressing electronics quality control challenges. At Advantive, we offer specialized electronics manufacturing software to help suppliers and manufacturers comply with industry and customer standards for quality, consistency, and security. Our solutions can stand up to third-party audits, reduce product defects and variations, and drive continuous improvement with features like:
Find full traceability for any modification, edit, or change to any database record. When enabled, traceability records are easily viewed in various ways, but cannot be edited. Whenever a record modification or deletion is attempted, the “Reason for Change” tracking feature forces users to select a reason for the modification from a drop-down list and also requires a free-form comment. A Change History and Reason for Change Report can accompany any chart printout when specified.
Take proactive steps to prevent recalls, significantly reduce the time and costs of recalls in the event they occur, and standardize processes, documentation, and reporting with track-and-trace lot genealogy solutions across your entire supply chain. This functionality allows electronics OEM and tier suppliers to track raw materials or component lot codes throughout manufacturing operations and provide a complete view of the incoming/outgoing product relationship complete with statistical summary information. These reports allow you to determine:
Our manufacturing electronics software includes strict access control features to support requirements for electronic signatures including password aging, recycling, lockouts, length, and encryption. The security violation logs track and report security violations by individual users and their locations., while access logs track individual user access into and out of applications. We also offer audit trail logging, which provides a history of all changes made to any database record including sample data limits, alarm rules, change history, metadata, specification limits, and control limits.
In a highly regulated industry like electronics manufacturing, you need software that will help you easily track parts and products, meet specific requirements, and stand up to third-party audits. Advantive’s electronics ERP and SPC software boasts helpful built-in quality checklists, real-time data collection, and workflow alerting features needed to comply with these stringent manufacturing standards. This enhanced level of supplier monitoring and accurate data visibility can help quality control managers:
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In highly regulated industries like medical device and pharmaceuticals, products must be of the highest quality to meet customer demands for safety and efficacy. With Advantive’s robust medical and pharmaceutical ERP and SPC software, we can help you improve product quality while meeting stringent government regulations.
Keep manufacturing processes operating at the highest efficiency with our flexible medical device and pharmaceutical ERP and SPC solutions. With built-in medical quality control and supplier monitoring functionality, our software helps medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers comply with government regulations and industry standards for quality and safety. Core features include:
Use access logs to track individual user access into and out of applications, and track and report security violations by individual users and their location with security violation logs. Advantive’s strict access control features support all of FDA 21 CFR Part 11 technical requirements for electronic signatures including password aging, recycling, lockouts, length, and encryption.
Track raw materials or component lot codes throughout manufacturing operations with our powerful lot genealogy and reporting tools for medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. These reports allow you to determine:
Built-in checklists and workflow-alerting features help medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers easily comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Critical Quality Attributes (CQAs) and Critical Process Parameters (CPP). With our powerful quality management solutions, you can also set reminders of when to perform HACCP, SOP, and other critical quality checks by incorporating workflow requirements at the production floor level and using our real-time dynamic scheduler, which offers visual checklists to operators.
Manufacturers in the pharmaceutical industry must also comply with FDA, U.S. Pharmacopoeia (USP), or other international Pharmacopoeia requirements for Net Weight Control and Content Uniformity. The Net Weight Control feature supports Pharmacopoeia Weight Variation and Content Uniformity requirements; in addition, our software provides related documentation and reporting to support the needs of global manufacturers.
We provide test cases, validation scripts, and validation services so that medical and pharmaceutical manufacturers can perform full, functional verifications of their software installations. These scripts provide a solid foundation for clients to validate our SPC quality system internally.
Additionally, we maintain a comprehensive statistical validation of our SPC software products to ensure the accuracy and validity of the calculations performed within. This statistical validation is performed by our staff of degreed industrial statisticians and made available in electronic format suitable for inclusion by our FDA-regulated clients in their own validation documentation. This data helps maintain efficient medical quality control in a global supply chain.
Learn how the world’s leading producer of implantable hearing devices improved quality control and increased real-time visibility across production with InfinityQS SPC software.
With the continual demand for shorter production cycles and high-quality products in an increasingly complex global supply chain, aerospace and defense original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and tier suppliers manufacturers need real-time visibility—within plants and across the globe—to proactively increase quality through continual improvements, prevent and respond quickly to recalls, and ensure certification compliance.
Advantive’s world-class ERP and SPC solutions feature built-in tools and real-time visibility to support aerospace and defense manufacturers in meeting third-party (IAQG) audits, and government and industry standards for traceability, quality, safety, and compliance. Core industry-specific features include:
This feature provides full traceability for any modification, edit, or change to any database record when enabled. Traceability records are easily viewed in a variety of ways, but they cannot be edited. Whenever a record modification or deletion is attempted, the Reason for Change tracking feature forces users to select a reason for the modification from a drop-down list. Free-form comments are also required. When specified, a Change History and Reason for Change Report can accompany any chart printout.
Automated audit trail logging provides a history of all changes made to any database record including sample data limits, alarm rules, change history, metadata, specification limits, and control limits. This strict access control feature supports requirements for electronic signatures including password aging, recycling, lockouts, length, and encryption. The Security Violation Logs track and report security violations by individual users and their locations. Access Logs also track individual user access into and out of applications.
Auditing just became a lot easier with instant access to real-time quality records and electronic documentation needed to demonstrate compliance. This robust solution can stand up to third-party (IAQG) certification audits or internal audits for Quality Management Systems (QMS) that require ISO 9001:2008, AS 9100C:2009, EN9100:2009, and JIS Q 9100:2009. With built-in checklist- and workflow-alerting features needed to comply with QMS SPC requirements for key product characteristics, Critical Quality Attributes (CQAs), and Critical Process Parameters (CPP), creating reports takes only minutes instead of hours or days, eliminating the need for spreadsheets.
Automotive suppliers and manufacturers can track raw materials or component lot codes throughout manufacturing operations that support AS 9100C:2009 7.5.3 traceability requirements. Gain a comprehensive view of the incoming/outgoing product relationship, complete with statistical summary information with lot genealogy reports. For investigation purposes, genealogical “trees” can be created for any lot. These reports allow you to determine:
The food and beverage industry faces unprecedented regulation as consumers and governments worldwide demand high levels of safety and quality control for food, including “farm-to-fork” and “boat-to-plate” traceability. To help meet these demands, Advantive offers flexible ERP, SPC, WMS, and MES solutions specifically built for food and beverage manufacturers, from small independent manufacturers to large multinational players.
To maximize profits while improving enhancing food safety monitoring and control, Advantive provides food and beverage ERP and SPC software solutions to modern food manufacturers worldwide. Our highly specialized manufacturing systems are designed to help you streamline processes, reduce inventory, gain real-time visibility from your suppliers, co-packers, and third-party producers, and increase your bottom line. Core features include:
Paper and spreadsheets can no longer get the job done given today’s need for real-time and accurate quality data that is visible from the production floor to the corner office. With Advantive’s food and beverage software, you get a single solution to automate key data entry processes and simplify the way you collect data to provide complete transparency across your entire operations.
Modernize your production with Advantive’s world-class WMS and MES software designed for food and beverage processors. From produce to proteins to multi-ingredient, our solutions help you automatically connect to scales and palletizers to bring floor data to the office. Our food and beverage manufacturing software not only offers a clear vision of your production flow but also fortifies inventory tracking through in-process steps and refines your production process via yield tracking, catchweight production scheduling, and recipe management.
Streamlining warehouse operations is the cornerstone of every implementation of Advantive’s food and beverage manufacturing software. The software efficiently scans crates, boxes, or entire pallets directly into your inventory and swiftly checks them into their designated location. It provides real-time tracking of available ingredients and finished goods, as well as their exact whereabouts. To further enhance efficiency, our system incorporates automatic FIFO management and GS1 labeling to ensure smooth lot tracing processes.
Make auditing and compliance simpler with lot genealogy and traceability, simplified auditing, and complete visibility into the entire manufacturing lifecycle. Easily track raw material (ingredients) lot codes throughout the your entire food and beverage manufacturing operations. For investigation purposes, genealogical “trees” can be created for any lot. These reports allow you to determine:
Report with confidence using built-in tools that help food and beverage manufacturers comply with government regulations and industry standards for food quality and safety. Our world-class manufacturing solutions boast built-in checklists and workflow alerting features needed to comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP). You can incorporate workflow requirements at the shop floor level, providing automatic data collection prompts to operators. We also offer a real-time Dynamic Scheduler which provides visual checklists to operators, reminding them when to perform HACCP, SSOP, and other critical quality checks.
When enabled, database auditing provides full traceability for any modification, edit, or change to any database record. Traceability records are easily viewed in a variety of ways, but they cannot be edited. Whenever a record modification or deletion is attempted, the Reason for Change tracking feature forces users to select a reason for the modification from a drop-down list. Additionally, free-form comments are required. When specified, a Change History and Reason for Change Report can accompany any chart printout.
Manufacturers in the food and beverage industry must also comply with filling requirements for Net Content Control (i.e., weight). Our solutions include a Net Content Control feature to support both the U.S. Department of Commerce Maximum Allowable Variation (MAV) and European Union Tolerable Negative Error (TNE) and T1/T2 requirements, plus related Net Content Control reporting to support the needs of global manufacturers. Many of our food and beverage manufacturing customers see fast ROI based solely on reduced “giveaway” or overfilling of product using the Net Content Control functionality.
Advantive’s food and beverage manufacturing software comes equipped with an intuitive reporting suite for instant, up-to-date visibility into your business operations. With several pre-designed reports and easily customizable reporting to fit your comprehensive MRP requirements, our food and beverage solutions integrate with your existing ERP system to deliver valuable insights that boost operational agility, execute virtual recalls in mere minutes, and provide transparency throughout your factory.
Fully IoT enabled, Advantive’s WMS and MES solutions for food and beverage manufacturers can integrate with your connected scales, inline printers, labelers, and even advanced robotics. Whether they’re in your plant now or part of your future vision, our production software accommodates your needs. At Advantive, we partner with trustworthy, innovative hardware solutions providers, from mobile printers to RF technology.
Learn how a global food and beverage manufacturer increased visibility and improved every step of their manufacturing process using InfinityQS SPC software.
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