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PQ Systems: SPC and Gage Management Software for Manufacturers

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World-Class SPC and Gage Management Solutions Focused on Quality Improvement

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 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:

  • SPC Charts: Get to the discovery phase of your processes faster and reveal what your data is telling you. Analyze mass amounts of data easily, utilizing the software’s SPC charting tools. This allows users to cut through the noise and get to the information that you need.
  • Process Alerts: Prevent quality control issues with immediate process feedback.
  • Capability Analysis: Improve your quality performance by using capability analysis to assess whether your process is statistically capable of meeting specifications or requirements. Ensure processes are on target with minimal variation with a selection of capability analysis calculations.
  • Industry Compliance: Comply with industry standards including, ISO9000 & ISO9001, ISO/IATF 16949, AS9100, FDA CFR 21 part 11, and others. Maintain an audit trail with a robust and precise record of changes to your data in order to maintain a historic record. Respond to audit requests with ease and spend less time searching for SPC data with powerful filtering tools.
  • Data Collection: Manually enter measurements, import data from a variety of sources like SQL and Excel, or input data directly from equipment such as CMMs and handheld measurement devices.
  • Reporting: Use a report template or create your own to easily share SPC charts, process capability and process performance statistics, Certificates of Analysis, and more.

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:

  • Calibration Management: Keep gage information organized and easily accessible while ensuring precise records for internal and external device calibrations. Our software allows you to view summary information for gage inventory, historical events, and projected workload all in one place, with functionality like built-in reports, alerts, and scheduled due dates.
  • Standards Compliance: Get all the tools and functionality necessary to maintain compliance with the industry and customer standards that govern the proper way to care for and manage your gages, including: device traceability, calibration certificates, user permissions, audit trail, data validation, and secure user login.
  • Measurement Systems Analysis: To help you identify sources of measurement variation, our solution provides all of the tools you need to generate a complete statistical and graphical analysis of your measurement system. Easily perform gage R&R studies for both variable and attribute gage repeatability and reproducibility, calculate the uncertainty of your calibrations, and produce accuracy and stability charts.
  • Label Printers & Barcode Scanners: Integrate with label printers and barcode readers to save time and minimize errors.
  • Procedure Documentation: Organize and easily access the procedure documentation needed to complete calibrations.
  • Reports and Dashboards: Make it easier than ever to share critical information about your measurement system with over 150 built-in reports and the ability to create custom reports and dashboards.

Optimize Your Software and Process Performance with Advantive

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

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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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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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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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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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Standardized Quality Management System (QMS) Built for Manufacturers

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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.

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

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

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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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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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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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A Quick Guide to Variables and Attributes Data

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

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

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?

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

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