Reach your target-weight and quality goals with WinSPC
In today’s modern bakery, competitive results are harder to achieve than ever. With bread margins in single digits, tightening a bakery’s operating efficiency and controlling weight variation are keys to product consistency and corporate profitability. While there are several Quality programs providing regulatory compliance with initiatives such as Safe Quality Food (SQF), leading bakeries are looking to SPC in order to improve their bread margins and to ensure a consistent product for their customers.
DataNet and WinSPC offer a fast, proven, and sustainable method to:
- Improve product consistency
- Reduce defects, waste, or give-away
- Increase manufacturing yield
- Achieve regulatory compliance
- Improve customer satisfaction
Just like in your home kitchen, making a loaf of bread with consistent quality comes down to following a proven recipe. But in a modern bakery, consistent results require far more than just setting the oven temperature and timer. Tightening a bakery’s operating efficiency and controlling weight variation down to a hundredth of an ounce are critical to product consistency and corporate profitability.
Baked goods producers often have eighty or more critical quality control points throughout their processes and have already implemented control systems to help capture and track this critical data. Likewise, testing technology has evolved to assist by providing greater precision and data via automated scales, inline check-weighers, temperature sensors and networks of intelligent machines. When these are combined with impressive vision systems that monitor each step from mixing through slicing and packaging, it would seem that there is no room for additional monitoring or control. However, without proper SPC methods in place, these processes can continue to experience variation that drives up the overall cost-of-quality. Lack of statistical process control often translates into excessive weight and giveaway, unnecessary raw material usage, additional inspection costs, higher product defect rates and waste.
Attempting to apply SPC methods on paper or in Excel is a common starting point and a good educational experience for shop personnel seeking to grasp fundamental SPC concepts and benefits. These manual methods can reveal hidden variation in a process, but the information may not be timely or comprehensive, and it can be subject to inaccuracies due to manual entry. Furthermore, the inherent inefficiency of paper-based systems can expose the truth that even the most ambitious check-sheet captures only a fraction of the data that engineers and managers seek for continuous improvement projects.
When scaled to production, manual systems often reveal their shortcomings. As production problems arise it becomes frustratingly obvious to management and engineers that they do not have all the data necessary to make a real-time decision. In order to properly analyze current or previous performance, adequate visibility into active process trends is often required to prevent costly out-of-specification conditions and costly over-weights. In such cases the greatest opportunity for bottom-line improvement is often achieved simply by scaling up from a paper-based (or Excel) system to a real-time, automated solution.
The possible savings from making such a move can be assessed by considering the following questions about your manual system:
- How long does it take to detect and respond to assignable cause variation?
- How much time is spent daily or weekly managing data on paper or in spreadsheets and generating regular reports?
- Are the production lines capable of consistently running according to specifications?
- How much is variation costing the company and how much could be saved if variation could be reduced
Most often, the answers to these questions reveal that substantial process and financial improvement is possible through the implementation of an automated SPC system.
Learn how these bakery customers take their performance to the next level with WinSPC solutions
How to Buy WinSPC Envision
Contact WinSPC Sales at +1 248.357.2200 or email [email protected]. They can help you to define your solution or connect you with a regional reseller near your manufacturing facility.
WinSPC is licensed based on concurrent usage. A purchase of 25 licenses, for example, permits up to 25 users to use the software simultaneously.
See WinSPC Envision System Requirements.
A customer’s initial purchase of WinSPC Envision includes the WinSPC Envision web server and one or more blocks of concurrent-user licenses, each block consisting of 5 licenses.
Additionally, an installation and 4-hour introductory training package may be purchased. This helps ensure your WinSPC Envision system is installed correctly and launched quickly. It also helps to ensure that your users are properly trained and get the most out of the system.
As usage of the system grows, supplemental 5-license blocks are available for purchase.
For customers with large usage expectations, a corporate license, which permits unlimited usage, can be negotiated.
Finally, custom views can be developed by the WinSPC team for you–views that tailor WinSPC Envision to your specific performance metrics.
Contact WinSPC Sales for pricing on any of the above offerings.
Monitoring and Analyzing with Dashboards Using WinSPC Real-Time Statistical Process Control Software | WinSPC Video
WinSPC dashboards organize and visualize Quality metrics. They can combine statistical summaries, event or activity details, and any of the 60-plus industry standard SPC charts.
Shop-floor dashboards are often setup to automatically:
- Flash when a shift average or other statistic exceeds a specified value.
- Or re-sort so at-risk operations are highlighted and prominently positioned.
Shop floor dashboards can even email a manager screenshots and reports when a process changes. Or transmit status to external systems.
Managers and engineers use dashboards to stay updated and as a starting point for analysis. Their dashboards might feature:
- Events, activities, alarms.
- Tables of important stats.
- Cost-reduction opportunities calculated by WinSPC’s patented Cost Inspector.
- And a wider selection of charts, such as: Pareto charts of assignable causes, pie charts of corrective actions, Box and Whisker plots, or others.
Engineers frequently configure their dashboards so that, with a click, they can…
- Launch reports
- Or drill-down to a companion dashboard
- Or view a characteristic in the Variable Analyzer or Attribute Analyzer—two powerful tools that enable engineers to sort by tag or other criteria, zoom in, and interact with data in additional ways.
A number of dashboards, already configured and ready to use come with WinSPC.
These target vital information needs and include:
- Comparison views that show the current week or month in relation to an earlier period.
- Cost-based views that quantify loss related to variation and offset from target.
- Multi-variate views that provide insight into related processes as a whole.
- And production summary views that present real-time operation status.
We invite you to learn more about WinSPC. Click the link to learn more: www.advantive.com/products/winspc
About DataNet Quality Systems
DataNet Quality Systems empowers manufacturers to improve products, processes, and profitability through real-time statistical software solutions. The company’s vision is to deliver trusted and capable technology solutions that allow manufacturers to create the highest quality product for the lowest possible cost. DataNet’s flagship product, WinSPC, provides statistical decision-making at the point of production and delivers real-time, actionable information to where it is needed most. With over 2500 customers worldwide and distributors across the globe, DataNet is dedicated to delivering a high level of customer service and support, shop-floor expertise, and training in the areas of Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing services.
WinSPC: Real-Time SPC intelligence, accelerated
Real-time statistical process control software for manufacturers that need high-speed data capture, shop-floor control charts, and proactive process optimization across every line and site.
- Reduce process variation and improve product quality by more than 20%
- Cut scrap, waste, and rework by more than 15%
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Real-Time Quality Intelligence for Manufacturing
WinSPC connects quality data to the decisions that protect production performance, helping manufacturers improve process control, reduce variation, and operate with confidence. Our trusted and capable statistical process control (SPC) software provide the integral tools and functionality you need to create the highest quality product for the lowest possible cost. With an intuitive, user-friendly interface to quickly create, organize, and manage quality programs on a global scale, our SPC solutions are used by quality teams to improve product quality, reduce process variation, and optimize manufacturing processes.
Collect shop-floor data in real-time from virtually any source—gauges, devices, machines, and other data sources. Our flexible SPC software comes with a simple three-step connection process that makes it easy to simply connect and begin collecting data from almost anything.
- Connect and collect data from any RS232 serial or USB device
- Capture data from text files, .csv files, Microsoft Excel, any ODBC-compliant database, or machines such as CMMs or PLCs
- Integrate with other manufacturing systems using ODBC, OPC, OLE, DDE, and built-in APIs supports hundreds of methods and properties
Empower your operators with actionable intelligence and statistical analysis on plant performance. Our SPC software includes real-time control charts on the shop floor and plant monitor functionality to enable your team to immediately detect and correct process issues and manage your operations more effectively. It runs on the desktop and shows accurate statistics for every data collection station in one convenient window—giving managers a summary view of their plant’s performance from a single screen.
Automatically alert personnel, execute custom programs, shut down machines, or engage other systems if a non-conformance or rule violation occurs using WinSPC’s built-in triggers. Whether your requirements are as simple as sending an email or as complex as triggering a process within a corrective action system, our SPC solution gives you the power to close the quality loop from “detection-to-correction.”
- Use a simple pull-down menu to schedule a variety of different notifications and alarms for nearly any condition
- Program your own custom triggers to schedule enterprise-wide alarms or communicate bidirectionally with other systems or machines or send a command to a device
Identify the hidden cost of give-away, overfill, rework or scrap that weaken a company’s profits using WinSPC’s Cost Inspector. The Cost Inspector links manufacturing cost information with current and historical process data, empowering quality teams to:
- Search process data across all operations to uncover costly process problems
- Identify sources of give-away, overfill, scrap or waste
- Calculate potential savings per unit by reducing process variation or shifting processes to optimal mean
- Translate process improvement statistics into dollars saved for the company
- Produce cost-based reports to show executive management the return on investments in quality
Answer questions, detect changes, discover trends, and make decisions that count with DataNet’s data sets, variable analyzer, and custom reports.
- Data Sets: Identify, prevent, and prioritize quality issues at a macro level. Unlike the traditional microscopic nature of SPC, which focuses on a specific variable, data sets offer a broad view of your database—enabling you to proactively monitor and uncover high-priority issues.
- Variable Analyzer: Experiment, visualize, and reveal more information about any variable using the one-click variable analyzer. The variable analyzer delivers both point-of-production and historical analysis capabilities. It puts an entire set of statistical tools at your fingertips—giving you a comprehensive view of your data from one convenient screen.
- Reports: Quickly create, publish, and share quality reports across your organization using our easy-to-use graphical report builder and dozens of standard report templates.
Bring Your Real-Time SPC Program to Life with Advantive
Today’s companies have high expectations for performance and little room for mistakes. With decades of helping manufacturers and distributors across the globe, Advantive is dedicated to delivering a high level of customer service and support, shop floor expertise, and professional services specializing in continuous improvement, Six Sigma, and lean manufacturing.
Easily Connect to Other Business Systems
Share your data between WinSPC software and other critical manufacturing applications such as MES, ERP, HMI, or LIMS systems. Our built-in API’s with over 500 methods and properties allow you to bi-directionally communicate and offer proven integration success with other systems like SAP, Oracle, Delmia, Wonderware, GE Proficy, Plex, MS Dynamics, AspenTech, Factory Link, Labview, and many more. Other services include:
- CMM Integration
- Data Migration
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