To remain competitive, manufacturers must consistently make high quality products for the lowest possible price. WinSPC’s Cost Inspector™ drives this goal by enabling quality teams to uncover and minimize loss attributed to process variation and non-optimized processes. Quality professionals can use the Cost Inspector to identify the often hidden cost of give-away, overfill, rework, or scrap that weaken a company’s profits.

Direct benefits:

• Minimize loss from variation and process shift
• Deliver reports in terms of money saved
• Calculate money saved by reducing variation
• Calculate money saved by shifting processes to optimal mean
• Prioritize activities based upon greatest potential for savings

Uncover hidden costs

Cost Inspector helps to uncover and minimize loss attributed to non-optimized processes.

Deliver reports in terms of money saved

Calculate money saved by reducing variation.

Calculate money saved by process shifting.

Prioritize process improvement activities based upon greatest potential for savings

WinSPC's data collection features enable manufacturers to quickly and accurately capture and manage product and process data from nearly any shop-floor source, including: serial devices, text files, machines, gages, databases, and other manufacturing systems. WinSPC's data collection features offer the fastest, easiest way for quality engineers to quickly gather manual input, connect to devices, and capture data from other manufacturing sources.

Direct benefits:

• Enable visibility into shop-floor processes
• Understand and improve processes
• Support continuous improvement and Lean Six Sigma programs
• Increase responsiveness
• Make data-driven decisions

Capture quality data

collect data from RS232 or USB devices: micrometers, calipers, scales, etc.

Collect data from PLCs with OPC server

Collect data from complex manufacturing machines using ODBC, OLE, DDE or text files

Collect text data from CMM, CNC, color testers, vision systems, force testers

Collect data faster from text files like txt, csv, at rates of 100 points per second

To minimize the cost of quality, more and more companies are adopting preventative and predictive methods for manufacturing quality control. Real-time SPC software is a proven, fundamental tool used to detect, and ultimately prevent, process errors that lead to defects, scrap or waste. WinSPC's real-time SPC control charts graphically display real-time, actionable information to operators and managers. This empowers personnel to detect and correct out-of control situations, minimize variation, and continuously improve the manufacturing process. The result? Higher quality products and a more cost-effective, capable process.

Key benefits:

• Minimize variation
• Reduce scrap, waste, rework
• Empower personnel with actionable intelligence
• Promote Lean Manufacturing

Monitor Processes in Real Time

Identify nonconformances in real time and prevent defects with control charts.

Spreadsheet mode: enter multiple readings in any order

Combine control charts with pictures or drawings

Calculate, or combine data as it is collected

Standardized control charts

Instantly launch documents in order to quickly solve problems

Define your own screen layout

Set fixed or calculated control limits

Prompt operators to add notes, assignable causes, and corrective actions

Save time using standard SPC rules or create your own

Scroll to view past data

To increase productivity, empower personnel, and reduce waste, it is critical that your managers be armed with the right information. WinSPC’s Plant Monitor gives plant management, quality inspectors, and manufacturing supervisors a bird’s eye view of shop floor processes, enabling them to resolve problems faster, manage more effectively, and improve plant performance.

Direct benefits:

• Gain a bird's eye view of production
• Identify and correct process errors faster
• Manage by exception
• Integrate management and stakeholders with plant floor performance
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Streamline nonconformance processes

Manage plant-wide performance

Monitor plant-wide performance at-a-glance with plant monitor

Mouse-over a workstation to reveal real-time statistics

Immediately become notified of process issues in your plant, such as violations, trending, or nonconformances

Drill Down, investigate, and resolve process issues from any desktop

To continually understand, interpret, and improve product and process quality, manufacturers require advanced statistical analysis tools and access to timely manufacturing data. WinSPC and Custom Web Reporter™ provide a rich set of SPC and SQA analysis tools to enable point-of-production and historical statistical analysis. Because WinSPC collects and stores all plant floor data, companies are able to retain data integrity and reproduce analysis at any time.

Direct benefits:

• Perform point-of-production and historical statistical analysis
• Make fast, data-driven decisions
• Quickly turn shop-floor manufacturing data into actionable intelligence
• Support Six Sigma and the DMAIC process
• Retain data integrity and reproduce advanced analysis at any time
• Export data to a variety of industry standard tools

Experiment, visualize & reveal

View charts and perform what-if analysis with WinSPC variable analyzer

Group and sort data by date, users, or any tag to analyse issues and reveal root cause.

View all data collected for a variable on a grid; export data to use it in other applications.

Use the distribution analyser to determine if your current method is valid.

Group and sort data by date, users, or any tag to analyse issues and reveal root cause.

Reveal hidden cost with Cost Inspector.

To continuously improve manufacturing operations, management must gain visibility into plant-floor operations, measure quality performance, and quickly transform that knowledge into actionable intelligence. WinSPC and the Custom Web Reporter™ module address these critical issues by enabling teams to efficiently create and publish rich, graphical reports. From a basic shop-floor level process report to highly customized web-based enterprise reports, WinSPC offers out-of-the box and custom capabilities to support your need to quickly share manufacturing intelligence across the enterprise.

Direct benefits:

• Transform plant data into manufacturing intelligence
• Comply with regulatory requirements
• Achieve higher customer satisfaction
• Communicate manufacturing quality metrics across the enterprise
• Retain data integrity and reproduce advanced analysis at any time
• Save hundreds of hours by scheduling automated analysis

Publish quality reports

Create reports, store commonly used templates and automate your time-consuming reporting tasks.

Quickly generate and distribute reports in a variety of formats

Choose from a library of pre-built reports

Print certificate of analysis with standardized box-plots

See quickly the primary sources of defects with Pareto charts

Capability report provides a simple outline of your variables

Reveal relationships between variables