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Experience The Difference

Try a free demo and see why we are the established market-leading provider of purpose-built software for specialty manufacturing and distribution companies around the globe.

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

VIA IT’s automotive manufacturing solutions set the industry standard in traceability and sequencing software for the plant floor. In my opinion, it is the one product that all others should be compared to.

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Matt Warren

Traceability Manager

With Kiwiplan MES software, we have created plant-specific business rules and customized the solution to fit our exact paper packaging needs. It has helped us increase visibility across all facilities and stay competitive in difficult market conditions.

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Executive Vice President

Optimize Manufacturing Performance

InfinityQS solutions help you improve quality, processes, and compliance across lines, sites—or the entire enterprise.

Maximize Efficiency Across Your Manufacturing Processes and Operations

Gain visibility into quality, process capabilities, and variations to reduce waste, scrap, and rework; improve yield and utilization; and make your plant floor operations more productive.

Monitor supplier quality
To make a great product, you need great materials. Supplier delays or raw material interruptions can spell disaster to your production timeline. With InfinityQS®, you can analyze the quality and consistency of your raw materials and suppliers as well as your finished product.

Capture quality data from across the enterprise
Ditch the paper, spreadsheets, and manual data entry. Consistent, reliable data is the bedrock of manufacturing optimization. With InfinityQS, you can automate collection of process and quality data from across your plants and manufacturing lines. And when data is centralized and unified, you get anytime, anywhere access to information from any process or site.

Optimize & standardize processes
When you understand the capability of your systems and processes, you can optimize their quality and performance. InfinityQS solutions provide the means to access that insight—across one line, an entire site, or multiple sites. Access historical data to see trends over time and more easily track down process issues before they become serious problems.

Accelerate data analysis
Automated data collection and aggregation make analysis of your enterprise-wide data faster and easier. Add flexible, automated reporting capabilities and the advice of our expert analytical experts, and you’ve got unbeatable insight into your operations.

Improve decision making
The ability to analyze historical data from all your processes and product lines—true enterprise visibility—gives you unprecedented operational insight. Feeds, speeds, temperatures, weights—get all the metrics you need to make strategic decisions.

Unify data for universal access
With InfinityQS, all your data is stored in a central, unified location rather than in separate data silos spread across the enterprise. As a result, processes and quality are in control—and data analyses are more comprehensive and complete.

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Easy to start. Easy to expand.

Enact empowers you to quickly realize the benefits of digital data collection and analysis. Start today with:

  • Five Enact licenses: add more as needed
  • Quick Setup wizard: your guide to configuring data collections
  • Video tutorials and easy-to-use help: available in our Guided Learning Center
  • Flexible expansion: reconfigure your licenses, add licenses, integrate with other manufacturing systems, and move to automated data collection—at any time

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Costs of a Real-Time SPC Solution

Many manufacturers worry about the cost of implementing a real-time statistical process control (SPC) solution. But a robust solution like InfinityQS® Enact® offers a fast, impressive return on investment (ROI) by reducing costs and saving resources at a level that many companies can’t even imagine. These savings are realized in all areas of operations and quality SPC, from data collection and analysis to reporting and communications.

Manufacturing Data Collection

How much time do your operators spend manually collecting data? Many manufacturers still use paper and pencil to keep track of process quality metrics, draining resources as well as complicating future analysis and reporting. When calculating ROI for InfinityQS SPC solutions, consider how much the following factors cost you now:

  • Operator time spent on manual data collection and data recording or entry
  • Missed or inaccurate collections and entries
  • Missed information because of data overload (lack of filtering capabilities)

Manufacturing Data Analysis

Can your quality team spot the sorts of historical trends that can lead to major cost savings? Can they compare process or product information across machines, shifts, and sites? Or do they spend countless hours trying to manipulate quality data in Excel or Minitab, simply to get the most basic results? How much do you spend in time and quality or IT resources on the following:

  • Trying (or failing) to evaluate which processes, equipment, or shifts to prioritize for improvement
  • Searching for additional cost savings
  • Worrying about how to bring your poorest performing sites or lines up to the standard of your best performers

Manufacturing Data Reporting

When your operations team is finished with your SPC data, what happens to it? How difficult and disruptive are customer information requests or audit notifications? Without the type of true Unified Data Repository that InfinityQS solutions provide, reporting and communications can drain IT and quality resources. But with Enact, you can be assured that everyone on every team—operations, quality, IT, and executive—benefit from smoother, faster data access:

  • Everyone has access to the same information, without manual, complex reporting.
  • Cloud-based SPC solutions enable fully mobile, anywhere/anytime access.
  • Pulling data and reports in response to audits and customer requests takes a fraction of the time required with other SPC solutions.

Focus on Priorities

Data overload is the downside of modern manufacturing.

How SPC Can Help

With today’s Industry 4.0 manufacturing environment becoming increasingly automated and Internet-connected, operators and quality personnel alike are finding themselves swamped with data—not all of which is applicable to the task at hand. Digging through this mountain of information can eat up valuable time and increase the possibility that you’ll miss an important notification or trend. Ideally, a statistical process control (SPC) solution can help you cut through the noise, with the ability to set collection alerts and query data.

Use Enact to Focus on Top Priorities

Big data can be a big headache when you’re trying to keep note of just a few priorities. That’s why Enact® uses standard (yet customizable) role-based dashboards to make your most important data easier to spot. Include the information tiles that matter most to you, based on your role, shift, and more.

An overload of quality data doesn’t organically translate into strategic insight and product improvements. A pile of Excel spreadsheets can’t compare to Enact’s intuitive data filtering, flexible notifications, and sleek dashboard tiles that give you a quick snapshot of where your process quality stands. Of course, you can dig deeper into the details with just a few clicks.

Compare quality data from multiple parts, lines, processes, shifts, sites, and more, so that you can cut straight to the heart of quality issues instead of drowning in individual charts graphs.

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Implementing SPC in Manufacturing Reduces Complexity

Complexity in operations can drive up manufacturing costs and frustrate manufacturing teams.

How Implementing SPC in Manufacturing Can Help

Complexity lurks in many corners of the manufacturing plant:

  • Manual data collection processes that complicate later analysis (e.g., handwritten data that might be difficult to read, paper reports that can become lost or damaged)
  • Lack of analytic capabilities that make attempts at quality analysis time-consuming and complicated
  • Inconsistent processes that make it difficult to plan for quality improvements
  • The introduction of additional or different steps across shifts, lines, employees, or sites

Using modern statistical process control for quality improvement helps to combat complexity by providing a means to understand and strategize around expected, standard variations in process quality.

Use Enact to Reduce Complexity

Many SPC quality systems promise to help improve processes—but then require extensive effort or additional expenses to integrate with existing infrastructure. Not so with Enact®, a cloud-based quality solution that is easy to try, use, and buy. Enact doesn’t require changes to your existing infrastructure, or the purchase of additional “modules” to achieve full functionality.

Enact can help your operations and quality improvement teams ramp up and start using SPC quickly, with intuitive UIs and extensive self-help. Not only does this reduce stress and slow-downs on the line, but your IT resources are also freed up for other tasks.

Enact uses process models and part recipes to provide a clear visualization of your manufacturing processes. With SPC that works like you do, you simplify the data collection process and reduce the burden on operators. Plus, this type of visual mode creates a reference that enables input from multiple sources and helps to clarify and streamline communication.

With Enact, you don’t need to jump through multiple hoops to see the “big picture” of manufacturing quality data. Customizable dashboards help cut down on complexity by showing you what you need, when you need it.

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Speed Responsiveness to Customers and Auditors with SPC Tools

Audits can cost manufacturers thousands in lost time—and those are the ones that go right.

How SPC Can Help

For manufacturers, industry audits are typically a stressful endeavor. Depending on your industry, regulations and compliance issues can be complicated, overwhelming—and devastating, if not followed and documented correctly. With an audit on the horizon, it can be difficult to find the time to locate, compile, and present the requested data while staying on top of all your regular day-to-day tasks. A statistical process control (SPC) system can help ease the process, giving you a more efficient way to collect, store, and retrieve quality and operations data.

Use Enact to Make Audit Prep Easier

With Enact®, you can easily prove that checks were completed correctly and on time. You can create reports in minutes, pulling together quality, preventative control, and other data across one shift or multiple shifts on multiple days.

Easily create customized reports in response to specific auditor or customer queries (e.g., an exceptions report that shows only applicable alarms, events, assignable causes, and corrective actions).

Save expensive physical storage space with Enact’s secure, cloud-based environment—without sacrificing anywhere, anytime access.

Improve traceability with Enact, for more precise tracking in the event of a problem with the quality of raw materials or finished product. Improved responsiveness in such situations can help to mitigate damage to your brand.

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Improve Productivity with SPC

Inefficiency is the enemy of manufacturing profit.

How SPC Can Help

“Time is money,” the saying goes—and nowhere is it truer than in manufacturing. Ideally, you can produce as much quality product as possible in the span of any given hour—without inefficient processes siphoning off the resulting profits. Many manufacturers see quality-improvement efforts as a cost center, when in fact they can help to increase profits by improving efficiency across the board and helping to—

  • Reduce scrap and rework
  • Minimize unplanned downtime
  • Provide input or guidance for best practices
  • Improve product consistency

Use Enact to Improve Efficiency and Productivity

Enact® saves operator time by improving the efficiency of the data collection process, including the ability to pull in data from equipment that supports automated collection. Even for machines that require manual recording of data, entering that data directly into Enact is fast and easy. Plus, Enact supports the configuration of entry limits, so that any accidental typos or transpositions are easier to catch immediately.

Forget the hours and hours that many SPC systems demand when it comes to retrieving and analyzing quality data. With Enact’s Unified Data Repository, retrieving information, tracking trends, and responding to reporting, customer, or audit demands takes a fraction of the time other systems require.

Unlike other SPC systems, Enact makes it possible to compare multiple products, shifts, processes—even sites—in a single chart. No need to export data for further calculations in Excel or Minitab; with Enact, you have robust, powerful analytic capabilities all from within your SPC system.

Thanks to Enact’s support for historical and aggregated analysis, you can more easily discover the approaches that lead to optimal quality. This ability supports the development of best practices, which can improve efficiency across your organization. And with Enact, you have the means to verify that such practices are being followed to the letter, across lines, shifts, and sites.

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