Real-Time Statistical Process Control (SPC) Software for Manufacturing

  • Continuously improve and optimize manufacturing processes with SPC software from Advantive.
  • Get the strategic insight you need to make data-driven decisions that improve product quality, decrease costs, and reduce waste.
  • Quickly detect and prevent problems in the manufacturing process before they arise.
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Control Process Inputs on the Production Floor

Take the guesswork out of quality control with statistical process control (SPC) software. Advantive’s award-winning SPC software delivers unparalleled visibility and intelligence to help plant managers understand and control variability in manufacturing. Developed by experienced statisticians, quality professionals, and Six Sigma-certified experts, our real-time SPC solutions include the measurement and monitoring tools you need to minimize production costs, optimize product quality, and significantly reduce risk, defects, and inconsistencies.

Quickly Detect Issues

Real-time, automated alerts and notifications help manufacturers facilitate rapid and precise corrections on the production floor.

Minimize Production Costs

Our SPC solutions uncover information that manufacturers can use to improve yields while reducing downtime and quality costs.

Optimize Product Quality

Make process improvements based on an unprecedented degree of insight into the behavior and quality of every part of your manufacturing lines.

Scalable SPC Software to Drive Better Quality Outcomes

With real-time quality data from across the enterprise, our proven SPC software for manufacturing provide simple, intuitive shop floor operator interfaces and powerful analysis capabilities for quality professionals and managers. By aligning operations, process control, supply and demand data, and front-office applications, Advantive’s solutions turn quality risk into a competitive advantage.

For manufacturers who use SPC or are engaged in continuous process improvement activities, SPC control charts are powerful tools for assessing and improving process quality. Control charts provide immediate, real-time indications of significant changes in manufacturing processes that warrant a root-cause analysis or other investigation. From standard control chart options for high-speed production to managing short runs and large numbers of part features, our SPC software offers a huge variety of configurable control charting options to help manage your biggest challenges.

We collect, standardize, aggregate, and store data in a single Unified Data Repository, so you can analyze and view it in hundreds of ways—without requiring expensive add-on software, export to third-party applications, or manual data processing. It’s simple to summarize, aggregate, and analyze all of your quality data using Advantive analysis tools.

Extensive analysis and reporting capabilities help quality professionals and Six Sigma teams identify improvement opportunities and replicate quality successes, leading to better process and product quality across the organization. Depending on your role and immediate goals, different information can take priority on any given day. That’s why Advantive products feature the ability to automatically trigger alarms and communicate them to precisely the right personnel at your plants. Conveniently, a single dashboard can be configured to reveal charts and information targeted to different unique users. This allows a single interface to be repurposed for a wide variety of needs and users while minimizing time spent configuring the system.

When it comes to real-time SPC, most solutions begin—and end—with control charts. Although control charts are excellent shop-floor tools, you’ll need other analysis tools to extract maximum information from your data. Our SPC solutions include sophisticated analysis tools to give you the ability to view data across product codes, lines, or sites—all in one report. Regardless of your manufacturing process—high volume/low mix, or low volume/high mix—our software has the right analysis tools for your unique situation.

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How to Improve Manufacturing Operations with Real-Time SPC Software

With the right Statistical Process Control (SPC) software, your data can provide actionable information to improve performance, reduce production costs, optimize product quality, and increase consistency across your manufacturing operations. Learn more by exploring our interactive online guide to SPC software and quality management.

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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.

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Regional CIO

DataNet integrated easily into our processes and helped improve product quality and reliability. Since implementing, we have seen a variance reduction of 39.5%!

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Chris Valier

Business Intelligence Manager

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.

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Facility Manager

What Our Customers Are Saying

Find out how our customers are solving plant floor problems, minimizing production costs, and maximizing customer value with best-of-breed SPC software from Advantive.

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What to Expect

  • Free 20-minute call with a product expert
  • Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
  • Discover what products best fit your needs
  • No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch

Standardized Quality Management System (QMS) Built for Manufacturers

  • Consistently meet quality standards with a documented quality management system.
  • Eliminate the uncertainties and risk of product traceability.
  • Easily adjust to changes in production processes or product specifications based on real-time data and testing.
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Meet Customer and Regulatory Compliance Standards with Ease

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.

Reduce Waste

Eliminate paperwork and manual processes to define test requirements and record results.

Improve Quality

Automatically prompt operators on the floor to perform required tests at the right time.

Build Trust

Improve product quality and reduce waste, returns and customer complaints.

Powerful QMS Software to Improve Product Quality and Consistency

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.

  • Define quality test requirements electronically for specific plants, plants within a specific region or your entire corporation.
  • Establish tests for specific jobs, customers, specifications, board types, paper, or other manufacturing characteristics.
  • Ensure all results are recorded promptly with a Transmission Link (XMT) to testing devices capable of providing test results electronically. Some testing devices test or measure every item produced. Others even photograph every defect and/or each and every item tested.

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.

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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.

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Nina King

Quality Supervisor

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.

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Jack Kraemer

President and COO

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.

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Steve Hardwick

Facility Manager

What Our Customers Are Saying

Find out how our customers are using quality management software to improve product quality, decrease risk, and make strategic data-driven business decisions.

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What to Expect

  • Free 20-minute call with a product expert
  • Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
  • Discover what products best fit your needs
  • No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch

A Quick Guide to Variables and Attributes Data

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Variables data is data that is acquired through measurements. This can be length, elapsed time, diameter, strength, weight, temperature, density, thickness, pressure, or height. Accuracy can be measured, for example, to the nearest inch, centimeter, millimeter, or micron. Attributes data is data that can be classified and counted. In attributes data, key concepts are “nonconformities” … Continued

The Surprising Source of Variation and How to Reduce It

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I recently wrote a series of posts on Measurement Studies for the PQ Systems blog: Assuring Measurement Accuracy with Gage R&RMSA – When Should a Measurement System Study be Completed?Setting Up a Measurement System The next step is analyzing the data. To illustrate, we will use an example R&R study conducted on the length of … Continued

Setting Up a Measurement Study

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Setting up a measurement study involves looking at the measurement system with respect to equipment, technique, environment, and the people involved. I’ll use an example to illustrate the approach. This example is a classic style of study and will examine a measurement study for assessing the system used to collect the pH of a product. For your … Continued

Data in Everyday Life: Are Honey Bees on the Decline?

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Honey bees, both wild and domestic, perform about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate up to 300 million flowers each day. While grains are primarily pollinated by the wind; fruits, nuts, and vegetables are pollinated by bees. Seventy out of the top 100 human food crops — which supply about 90 percent … Continued

Assuring Measurement Accuracy with Gage R&R

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Variation is inherent in any system, however excessive variation in the measurement process can provide misleading analysis. This excessive variation may affect your data and appear on control charts as variation in the process, potentially skewing the results and preventing accurate analysis. Most organizations have a system to calibrate measurement equipment routinely. Just because the … Continued

The perennial question: which chart is best?

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The perennial answer is, of course, “It depends.” For decades of users, Shewhart control charts have provided information about process stability. Like all Shewhart charts, data is plotted over time and in order from oldest to most current. The traditional control chart, an old standby, is not the only possibility when it comes to garnering … Continued