SPC in Manufacturing: A Practitioner's Guide
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- Quality Manufacturing
- Cost of Quality
- Quality Checks
- Quality Control Methods
- Quality Dashboards
- Quality in Real Time
- Quality Metrics
- Quality Team
Put Your Quality Data to Work
Quality dashboards make quality data quick to access and easy to understand. Manufacturers collect enormous amounts of information throughout the manufacturing process to measure and protect the quality of their products. But “measuring what matters” only benefits quality when the information is accessible to decision-makers.
Quality improvement dashboards provide high-level summaries of important metrics without forcing users to dig for details. And dashboards can be tailored to suit the demands of different roles. For example, plant floor operators can focus on a quality alert or metrics for a specific line. Meanwhile, corporate users might investigate historical or enterprise-wide data to uncover new opportunities to improve company profits.
Once built, dashboards and data collections can change how people work in a quality manufacturing environment. Everyone can see how the organization is performing and how their actions affect quality. Armed with actionable information, staff can work more effectively and efficiently toward quality outcomes.
Quality dashboards change the way people work by making it easy for them to quickly find information and take action.
Use Quality Dashboards to Cut Through Complexity
A unified repository for quality data helps manufacturers by putting all their information in one place. Dashboards simplify the way people can look at that data and enable a big-picture view of quality across complex manufacturing processes.
Quality improvement dashboards surface information that has been collected from multiple sources and synthesize it into simple visual models. They cut through the complexity and bring the most pressing issues to the forefront through customized reports and notifications.
Without dashboards, quality teams could easily become buried under enormous amounts of data, and decision-making could grind to a halt. Perhaps worse, leaders might not understand where their biggest problems are hidden, resulting in massively inefficient attempts to improve quality.
Quality dashboards ease data overload and improve:
- Efficiency—When it’s easy to see the data that’s relevant, you can determine where to spend your time and resources, instead of wasting time and money wondering where to start.
- Communication—When everyone has access to the same quality information, pulled from standardized data, it’s easier to streamline communication, create best practices, and keep everyone on the same page.
- Collaboration—Visual models provide an easy-to-understand snapshot of performance and make it easier to share information and solicit feedback from multiple experts.
See Your Quality Data in Action
Do you want a clearer view of quality? See how InfinityQS software and quality dashboards make it easier to take action on your most important quality initiatives.
Tailor Quality Reporting by Role
InfinityQS quality improvement solutions centralize and standardize key quality information; dashboards enable that information to be dispersed quickly and consistently across the organization. With statistical process control (SPC)-driven dashboards, everyone uses the same data to inform their decision-making.
Users may need different levels of information based on their roles in the manufacturing process. InfinityQS dashboards can be tailored for different user types, so everyone gets the level of detail they need, without sacrificing the consistency that makes the data reliable.
Dashboards can be customized to support the needs of plant floor operators, managers, and executive users.
Give Plant Floor Personnel Real-Time Data
Plant floor operators need to act quickly and confidently to keep the manufacturing process running smoothly. They don’t have time to juggle spreadsheets or dig through extraneous data.
That’s why InfinityQS dashboards put everything plant floor operators, engineers, and supervisors need front and center. The most critical information is summarized into high-level tiles so supervisors can prioritize their efforts on the most critical quality concerns—or head off issues. Operators and engineers can receive notifications based on real-time SPC intelligence so they can respond swiftly to any process variations or missed data collections.
Help Managers Drill into the Details
Management teams need to be able to spot trends, investigate events, and uncover opportunities to improve quality. InfinityQS quality improvement dashboards can be configured for more analytical decision-making in addition to real-time views of the organization.
Managers can use quality dashboard tile and metatag features to drill down into specific key performance indicators (KPIs) across sites, products, and processes.
If needed, they can also view statistical process control (SPC) charts, plus box-and-whisker plots and Pareto charts. Because InfinityQS dashboards are fed by a centralized and standardized data repository, management teams can be confident in their analyses, take decisive actions, and share best practices across teams and locations.
Unite Quality Efforts Across the Enterprise
InfinityQS dashboards offer executive leaders the flexibility to see quality manufacturing processes in their entirety or at line-level detail.
With InfinityQS solutions, leaders can enter, view, and analyze quality data in real time and from anywhere, so they can stay in tune with critical manufacturing operations. Standardization across the enterprise makes it faster for executives to evaluate quality metrics by site, product, or process, and simple visual models enable intelligent analyses.
Executive reports are customizable and reusable, which helps leaders plot their organization’s progress over time and set data-driven goals for future initiatives. Dashboards also help executives cut through the clutter and quickly focus on sites or processes that need their attention—and prioritize the improvements that will have the biggest impact.
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Go Beyond the Quality Checklist
As a manufacturer, you do more than just make a product. You are creating a brand and a customer relationship that’s essential for today’s success and the future of your business. Whatever your industry, whether you’re a small manufacturer or a global brand, your company’s reputation and earning potential are always at stake.
Manufacturing quality is the key to differentiation and a competitive advantage. When you put quality at the heart of your operations and your manufacturing culture, you gain more than just a mark on a quality control checklist. You gain the ability to transform your manufacturing organization and position it to thrive now and into the future.
Quality manufacturing starts when you re-imagine where your quality data can take you.
Quality manufacturing starts when you re-imagine where your quality data can take you.
“Coty has realized quality manufacturing benefits across all parts of the value chain—from quality professionals that experience unprecedented database accuracy to executives seeing financial savings.”
Romina Colautti, Process Engineer
Coty
Build Quality Manufacturing into Your Culture
Quality manufacturing goes beyond compliance requirements on a quality checklist. It’s more than employing a proven statistical process control (SPC) methodology. It’s a cultural foundation that crosses activities in every aspect of your operations, informs and empowers decision-making, and delivers a powerful return on investment (ROI). It’s the enterprise-wide practice that turns quality data into actionable Quality Intelligence.
Browse the topics in this learning center to learn about the critical aspects of quality control in manufacturing that will elevate the quality manufacturing culture of your organization.
Build Quality Manufacturing into Your Culture
Quality manufacturing goes beyond compliance requirements on a quality checklist. It’s more than employing a proven statistical process control (SPC) methodology. It’s a cultural foundation that crosses activities in every aspect of your operations, informs and empowers decision-making, and delivers a powerful return on investment (ROI). It’s the enterprise-wide practice that turns quality data into actionable Quality Intelligence.
Browse the topics in this learning center to learn about the critical aspects of quality control in manufacturing that will elevate the quality manufacturing culture of your organization.
Cost of Quality
When you change the way you think about your investment in quality initiatives in manufacturing, you launch a transformational process that enables positive, continuous improvement—and profitable growth for the future of your organization.
Do you see quality as a cost—or an opportunity? A constant chore—or a strategic advantage?
Cost of Quality
When you change the way you think about your investment in quality initiatives in manufacturing, you launch a transformational process that enables positive, continuous improvement—and profitable growth for the future of your organization.
Do you see quality as a cost—or an opportunity? A constant chore—or a strategic advantage?
Quality Team
In some organizations, the quality team is limited to a few individuals. In organizations that embrace quality manufacturing, the quality team extends across roles and locations, from suppliers to plant floor operators to plant managers to boardroom executives.
When everyone in the organization has a stake in quality, you gain the ability to continuously identify improvement opportunities, minimize risk and recalls, and exceed customer expectations.
How can you foster communication across roles?
Quality Team
In some organizations, the quality team is limited to a few individuals. In organizations that embrace quality manufacturing, the quality team extends across roles and locations, from suppliers to plant floor operators to plant managers to boardroom executives.
When everyone in the organization has a stake in quality, you gain the ability to continuously identify improvement opportunities, minimize risk and recalls, and exceed customer expectations.
How can you foster communication across roles?
Quality Dashboards
When everyone plays an important role in quality manufacturing, it’s essential to ensure that everyone has the information they need to perform their quality assurance tasks.
Role-based quality dashboards provide an uncluttered interface for showing every user the specific information they need to do their job well—and take meaningful, proactive action to improve quality at every level.
How can you make SPC information more accessible to all your stakeholders?
Quality Dashboards
When everyone plays an important role in quality manufacturing, it’s essential to ensure that everyone has the information they need to perform their quality assurance tasks.
Role-based quality dashboards provide an uncluttered interface for showing every user the specific information they need to do their job well—and take meaningful, proactive action to improve quality at every level.
How can you make SPC information more accessible to all your stakeholders?
Quality Checks
On a busy plant floor, operators may be performing routine quality checks as if they were an annoying chore rather a necessary contribution of assuring quality. More important, they might miss timed checks or skip some quality checks altogether.
When you provide operators with tools such as automated data collection and role-based dashboards, they can more easily see the information they need, perform required checks, and take corrective action in real time.
How can you empower operators and ensure accountability?
Quality Checks
On a busy plant floor, operators may be performing routine quality checks as if they were an annoying chore rather a necessary contribution of assuring quality. More important, they might miss timed checks or skip some quality checks altogether.
When you provide operators with tools such as automated data collection and role-based dashboards, they can more easily see the information they need, perform required checks, and take corrective action in real time.
How can you empower operators and ensure accountability?
Quality in Real Time
Every manufacturing organization collects data. Lots of data. But often that data is siloed, archived, and never used. In quality manufacturing, valuable data are brought back to life to ensure quality in real time.
That means being able to not only collect data in real time but also see, analyze, and use it to proactively correct issues and improve outcomes—saving time, money, and resources in the process.
How can you improve response times to issues and audits?
Quality in Real Time
Every manufacturing organization collects data. Lots of data. But often that data is siloed, archived, and never used. In quality manufacturing, valuable data are brought back to life to ensure quality in real time.
That means being able to not only collect data in real time but also see, analyze, and use it to proactively correct issues and improve outcomes—saving time, money, and resources in the process.
How can you improve response times to issues and audits?
Quality Control Methods
Time-tested quality control methods such as inspection, in-process sampling, and control charts provide a solid foundation for SPC-based quality programs. However, these methods can be time-consuming and often stop at the plant floor.
Learn how to leverage the quality data you already collect today to make more impactful improvements across your whole enterprise.
How can you make SPC information easier to analyze?
Quality Control Methods
Time-tested quality control methods such as inspection, in-process sampling, and control charts provide a solid foundation for SPC-based quality programs. However, these methods can be time-consuming and often stop at the plant floor.
Learn how to leverage the quality data you already collect today to make more impactful improvements across your whole enterprise.
How can you make SPC information easier to analyze?
Quality Metrics
Your metrics—the data that you measure and record every day—are just the tip of the quality manufacturing iceberg. Give a second life to your data by centralizing and aggregating it so that you can see the bigger picture of your products, processes, and plants—and make meaningful improvements across your enterprise.
How do you turn quality metrics into quality intelligence?
Quality Metrics
Your metrics—the data that you measure and record every day—are just the tip of the quality manufacturing iceberg. Give a second life to your data by centralizing and aggregating it so that you can see the bigger picture of your products, processes, and plants—and make meaningful improvements across your enterprise.
How do you turn quality metrics into quality intelligence?
Bring Quality Initiatives to Life with Modern SPC
Building a quality manufacturing culture is faster and easier when you have the right tools and systems in place. InfinityQS provides the solutions to address your most critical quality concerns. Grounded in proven statistical process control (SPC) methodology and purpose-built for the way modern manufacturing works today.
Learn more about InfinityQS quality platforms.
- How to reduce operating costs
- How to reduce waste in manufacturing
- How to reduce defects in manufacturing
- How to address productivity improvement
- How to improve audit speed and responsiveness
- How to reduce SPC complexity
- How to improve manufacturing reporting and visibility
- How to support manufacturing process improvement
Bring Quality Initiatives to Life with Modern SPC
Building a quality manufacturing culture is faster and easier when you have the right tools and systems in place. InfinityQS provides the solutions to address your most critical quality concerns. Grounded in proven statistical process control (SPC) methodology and purpose-built for the way modern manufacturing works today.
Learn more about InfinityQS quality platforms.
- How to reduce operating costs
- How to reduce waste in manufacturing
- How to reduce defects in manufacturing
- How to address productivity improvement
- How to improve audit speed and responsiveness
- How to reduce SPC complexity
- How to improve manufacturing reporting and visibility
- How to support manufacturing process improvement
Speak to a Manufacturing Industry Expert
What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
Speak to a Manufacturing Industry Expert
What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
Additional sections from legacy cost-of-quality:
Rethink Your Investment in Quality Initiatives
For many manufacturing organizations, the cost of quality management is viewed as an expense, necessary for maintaining compliance but not operationally beneficial.
That’s because status-quo and poor quality management programs are typically reactive. Data are collected and stored in spreadsheets or on paper forms, and quality issues often aren’t discovered until they create customer or shipment problems. Putting out quality “fires” leaves the quality team little opportunity to take advantage of the profit potential inside that quality data.
Quality is much more than a checkbox or a line-item expense. When you build quality manufacturing into your organizational culture, you turn quality data into a rich, strategic information source that helps you reduce costs, improve productivity, and expand market share to secure the future of your company.
The cost of quality isn’t measured in the price of data collection but in the greater value that quality data brings your manufacturing organization.
Quality manufacturing starts when you re-imagine where your quality data can take you.
Make the Case: Weigh the Cost of Poor Quality
What is the cost of poor quality? Many manufacturing organizations evaluate the cost of quality by considering only the upfront price of a software solution, better measurement gauges, or enhanced inspection strategies. But poor quality is the source of significant unseen costs across the organization, from the plant floor to the facility level and extending across the enterprise. To make the case for adopting a quality manufacturing culture, consider the broader costs you’re incurring with an outmoded quality management practice.
Make the Case: Weigh the Cost of Poor Quality
What is the cost of poor quality? Many manufacturing organizations evaluate the cost of quality by considering only the upfront price of a software solution, better measurement gauges, or enhanced inspection strategies. But poor quality is the source of significant unseen costs across the organization, from the plant floor to the facility level and extending across the enterprise. To make the case for adopting a quality manufacturing culture, consider the broader costs you’re incurring with an outmoded quality management practice.
On the Plant Floor: Collecting Manufacturing Quality Data
For many organizations, the cost of poor quality starts with outdated data collection practices. Paper data collection is not cheap. If your plant floor operators and quality management teams are still using paper checklists to manually record data collections, ask about the costs of factors such as:
- Time—Operators focus excessive time and energy on manually collecting and recording data.
- Inaccurate collections—Manual data collections are prone to inaccuracies and may be missed altogether, increasing compliance risks.
- Missed information—Data collected on paper is hard to review, increasing the likelihood of missing critical process variances or other issues.
On the Plant Floor: Collecting Manufacturing Quality Data
For many organizations, the cost of poor quality starts with outdated data collection practices. Paper data collection is not cheap. If your plant floor operators and quality management teams are still using paper checklists to manually record data collections, ask about the costs of factors such as:
- Time—Operators focus excessive time and energy on manually collecting and recording data.
- Inaccurate collections—Manual data collections are prone to inaccuracies and may be missed altogether, increasing compliance risks.
- Missed information—Data collected on paper is hard to review, increasing the likelihood of missing critical process variances or other issues.
At the Facility Level: Analyzing Manufacturing Quality Insights
Quality professionals and plant managers in many organizations spend hours—even days—every week compiling collected data into spreadsheets, then manipulating that data across multiple sheets. Even with all that effort, they may never have a clear way to compare the information that’s coming in from different machines, shifts, or sites. Consider the cost and effort associated with trying to improve:
- Priorities—Which processes or equipment need improvement?
- Savings—Which improvements will yield the greatest cost reductions?
- Consistency—How can you ensure high performance across all lines and sites?
At the Facility Level: Analyzing Manufacturing Quality Insights
Quality professionals and plant managers in many organizations spend hours—even days—every week compiling collected data into spreadsheets, then manipulating that data across multiple sheets. Even with all that effort, they may never have a clear way to compare the information that’s coming in from different machines, shifts, or sites. Consider the cost and effort associated with trying to improve:
- Priorities—Which processes or equipment need improvement?
- Savings—Which improvements will yield the greatest cost reductions?
- Consistency—How can you ensure high performance across all lines and sites?
Across the Enterprise: Reporting Manufacturing Quality Insights
Leadership, Six Sigma, and executive teams need the ability to easily access aggregated data to perform fast, clear analyses of the root causes of production costs. When leadership teams have to sort information from multiple sources or request reports from IT, decision-making can slow to a glacial pace. Consider how costly and time-intensive it can be to:
- Analyze—Manual reporting is more complex with disparate, out-of-date data structures.
- Collaborate—Teams struggle to make data-driven decisions without a shared view of information.
- Prioritize—It’s difficult to identify high-impact improvements without the ability to compare performance across the enterprise.
Across the Enterprise: Reporting Manufacturing Quality Insights
Leadership, Six Sigma, and executive teams need the ability to easily access aggregated data to perform fast, clear analyses of the root causes of production costs. When leadership teams have to sort information from multiple sources or request reports from IT, decision-making can slow to a glacial pace. Consider how costly and time-intensive it can be to:
- Analyze—Manual reporting is more complex with disparate, out-of-date data structures.
- Collaborate—Teams struggle to make data-driven decisions without a shared view of information.
- Prioritize—It’s difficult to identify high-impact improvements without the ability to compare performance across the enterprise.
How Much Can You Save with a Quality Manufacturing Focus?
Root-cause analysis of any costly issue often reveals that the losses multiply across multiple levels of the organization. See how one large-form manufacturer reduced its scrap from 45% to 0% and dramatically reduced costs—all by focusing on quality.
How Much Can You Save with a Quality Manufacturing Focus?
Root-cause analysis of any costly issue often reveals that the losses multiply across multiple levels of the organization. See how one large-form manufacturer reduced its scrap from 45% to 0% and dramatically reduced costs—all by focusing on quality.
Quality Data Is Your Most Powerful Cost-Reduction Resource
Quality Data Is Your Most Powerful Cost-Reduction Resource
Manufacturing organizations of every size—from global enterprises to midsize regional producers—and across every industry often feel they have to choose between high quality and operational efficiency.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Poor quality is at the heart of the costliest issues in manufacturing. Eliminate your quality issues, and you’re already on your way to reducing costs and improving productivity. The quality data you’re already collecting hold the keys to addressing core cost issues head on.
Reduce the cost of waste, scrap, and rework
Relying on a final inspection for quality control can be a case of too little, too late. If a process falls out of spec anywhere along the production line, that finished product heads straight for the waste bin, racking up untold costs in rework and materials. InfinityQS quality control solutions help you monitor product and process quality in real time at every critical operation so that plant floor operators can adjust and eliminate variations before they cause costly waste.
In addition, InfinityQS solutions centralize and standardize collected quality data to provide meaningful operational insights. When you roll up that aggregated data, you can get a big-picture view of all your operations—and apply waste-reducing best practices consistently across products, processes, and plants.
Turn customer complaints into customer loyalty
When you are able to identify and correct product and process variations early in production, sub-par products never reach your final inspection and customers. If customers do have a question or an issue, InfinityQS solutions provide instant access to reporting that helps you respond to customer queries quickly. That responsiveness can help you build a stronger bond, more repeat orders, and better customer relationships. The result? Happy customers who value your high quality, reliable products.
Build brand equity and gain a competitive advantage
A hallmark of a trustworthy brand is consistency across all products. InfinityQS solutions provide targeted, extensive data collection and quality control analysis capabilities, automated alerts, and aggregated access to historical data. Together, these capabilities enable unparalleled product consistency to meet your customers’ expectations and elevate your brand as the premium producer in your industry.
Prevent costly recalls
Product recalls cost your manufacturing organization more than lost time and materials. The potential loss of customer confidence and brand reputation can be devastating. InfinityQS quality solutions enable you to reduce or eliminate defects and automate compliance, policy, and procedure enforcement. Proactive quality assurance reduces the need for reactive responses to recalls.
Simplify and streamline audits
Audits that take days or even weeks rack up costs in time, effort, and resources. InfinityQS quality solutions eliminate those costs by enabling you to respond to audit requests in minutes. When quality data are centralized and standardized, it’s easy to pull together quality, preventative control, and other data across one shift or multiple shifts on multiple days. Then, you can easily create customized reports in response to specific auditor or customer queries.
Reduce the cost of regulatory compliance
Manufacturers today deal with myriad, complex international regulations and compliance requirements. Ensuring those requirements are met can be complex and time-consuming. InfinityQS solutions simplify and streamline regulatory compliance with automated alerts to ensure compliance checks are performed and automated notifications that provide visibility into potential or actual failures.
Make the most of investments in systems and equipment
No manufacturer is able to abandon their investment in existing equipment, devices, systems, and infrastructure. Fortunately, InfinityQS quality management software solutions integrate with a wide range of legacy systems, supporting communications through their native protocols (e.g., ODBC connection, XML, TXT, and others). Familiar, user-friendly interfaces and operational components add to the flexibility and scalability of the InfinityQS platform and enable users to take advantage of self-service, on-demand reporting. The result is better use of your quality data—without costly demands on your IT team.
Reduce the cost of waste, scrap, and rework
Relying on a final inspection for quality control can be a case of too little, too late. If a process falls out of spec anywhere along the production line, that finished product heads straight for the waste bin, racking up untold costs in rework and materials. InfinityQS quality control solutions help you monitor product and process quality in real time at every critical operation so that plant floor operators can adjust and eliminate variations before they cause costly waste.
In addition, InfinityQS solutions centralize and standardize collected quality data to provide meaningful operational insights. When you roll up that aggregated data, you can get a big-picture view of all your operations—and apply waste-reducing best practices consistently across products, processes, and plants.
Turn customer complaints into customer loyalty
When you are able to identify and correct product and process variations early in production, sub-par products never reach your final inspection and customers. If customers do have a question or an issue, InfinityQS solutions provide instant access to reporting that helps you respond to customer queries quickly. That responsiveness can help you build a stronger bond, more repeat orders, and better customer relationships. The result? Happy customers who value your high quality, reliable products.
Build brand equity and gain a competitive advantage
A hallmark of a trustworthy brand is consistency across all products. InfinityQS solutions provide targeted, extensive data collection and quality control analysis capabilities, automated alerts, and aggregated access to historical data. Together, these capabilities enable unparalleled product consistency to meet your customers’ expectations and elevate your brand as the premium producer in your industry.
Prevent costly recalls
Product recalls cost your manufacturing organization more than lost time and materials. The potential loss of customer confidence and brand reputation can be devastating. InfinityQS quality solutions enable you to reduce or eliminate defects and automate compliance, policy, and procedure enforcement. Proactive quality assurance reduces the need for reactive responses to recalls.
Simplify and streamline audits
Audits that take days or even weeks rack up costs in time, effort, and resources. InfinityQS quality solutions eliminate those costs by enabling you to respond to audit requests in minutes. When quality data are centralized and standardized, it’s easy to pull together quality, preventative control, and other data across one shift or multiple shifts on multiple days. Then, you can easily create customized reports in response to specific auditor or customer queries.
Reduce the cost of regulatory compliance
Manufacturers today deal with myriad, complex international regulations and compliance requirements. Ensuring those requirements are met can be complex and time-consuming. InfinityQS solutions simplify and streamline regulatory compliance with automated alerts to ensure compliance checks are performed and automated notifications that provide visibility into potential or actual failures.
Make the most of investments in systems and equipment
No manufacturer is able to abandon their investment in existing equipment, devices, systems, and infrastructure. Fortunately, InfinityQS quality management software solutions integrate with a wide range of legacy systems, supporting communications through their native protocols (e.g., ODBC connection, XML, TXT, and others). Familiar, user-friendly interfaces and operational components add to the flexibility and scalability of the InfinityQS platform and enable users to take advantage of self-service, on-demand reporting. The result is better use of your quality data—without costly demands on your IT team.
Real Savings, Real Transformation
Ready to change your perception of the cost of quality? Take a peek at the features, analytics, dashboards, and reports in InfinityQS software and re-imagine how you can find savings in the quality data you already have.
Real Savings, Real Transformation
Ready to change your perception of the cost of quality? Take a peek at the features, analytics, dashboards, and reports in InfinityQS software and re-imagine how you can find savings in the quality data you already have.
Reduce Costs and Boost ROI when You Look at Quality in a New Light
The quality data you already collect is a rich, untapped source of strategic insights that can drive enterprise-wide growth and transformation. With a quality manufacturing approach, the cost of quality initiatives quickly becomes a powerful return on investment.
When quality is embedded in every process across your enterprise, your business is transformed in ways that reduce costs across every level of your manufacturing operations.
Reduce Costs and Boost ROI when You Look at Quality in a New Light
The quality data you already collect is a rich, untapped source of strategic insights that can drive enterprise-wide growth and transformation. With a quality manufacturing approach, the cost of quality initiatives quickly becomes a powerful return on investment.
When quality is embedded in every process across your enterprise, your business is transformed in ways that reduce costs across every level of your manufacturing operations.
Speak to a Distribution Industry Expert
What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
Speak to a Distribution Industry Expert
What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
Additional sections from legacy quality-checks:
Use Data to Build Your Quality Manufacturing Strategy
At the most fundamental level, quality manufacturing hinges on quality checks. Data collected through quality checks is used to measure product and process quality, pinpoint places where operations can improve, and inform future strategies.
In order for quality checks to deliver meaningful insights, they have to be accurate, timely, complete, and appropriate. Leveraging statistical process control (SPC), manufacturers can hone in on the right metrics to watch and ensure data collection is consistent and precise—and that it’s providing needed information to make good business decisions.
InfinityQS SPC-based quality management solutions enable data collection options that help ensure key quality actions are attended to, whether that’s data collection, analysis, or investigation. With InfinityQS, operators are empowered to perform necessary quality checks and can take immediate steps to protect product quality.
Paper-based manufacturing quality checks are a costly option. Modernizing data collection saves more than you think.
How to Control Quality in Manufacturing? It Starts with Data
To make good decisions, you need good data. How do you collect the right information to assess and improve your quality manufacturing processes?
Compared to digital solutions, paper-based SPC data collection is expensive, inefficient, and even risky. Paper-based data collection is fraught with the potential for error and requires significant human resources to complete lower-value tasks, like managing supplies and filing or retrieving documents.
Gleaning usable information from a stack of papers—or dozens of spreadsheets—is costly too. Using paper, critical information is inaccessible, leading to missed opportunities to reduce risk, waste, or defects because the analytical process is too cumbersome and time-consuming.
How to Control Quality in Manufacturing? It Starts with Data
To make good decisions, you need good data. How do you collect the right information to assess and improve your quality manufacturing processes?
Compared to digital solutions, paper-based SPC data collection is expensive, inefficient, and even risky. Paper-based data collection is fraught with the potential for error and requires significant human resources to complete lower-value tasks, like managing supplies and filing or retrieving documents.
Gleaning usable information from a stack of papers—or dozens of spreadsheets—is costly too. Using paper, critical information is inaccessible, leading to missed opportunities to reduce risk, waste, or defects because the analytical process is too cumbersome and time-consuming.
Software Simplifies Data Collection
SPC-based quality software simplifies data collection and speeds up important quality checks, supporting streamlined data intake, reporting, and analysis with little to no IT involvement. In addition, modern quality solutions integrate into your existing quality workflows and manufacturing processes.
Because quality control in manufacturing is constantly evolving, modern quality management solutions allow for a mix of manual, semi-automated, and fully automated data collection.
- Manual—Data collection can easily shift from pencil and paper to keyboards, touchscreens, or barcodes and become part of the “bigger picture.”
- Semi-automated—Operators can use connected scales, calipers, gauges, and custom devices to collect quality information when they’re on the plant floor.
- Fully Automated—Data from enterprise resource planning systems, automated test equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and “smart” sensors can feed directly into your InfinityQS quality improvement system without operator intervention.
No matter how or when data is collected, InfinityQS stores everything in a central data repository, along with the time, date, and shift. Once data is entered, anyone who’s responsible for quality—from operators to executives—can access, analyze, and act on the information.
Software Simplifies Data Collection
SPC-based quality software simplifies data collection and speeds up important quality checks, supporting streamlined data intake, reporting, and analysis with little to no IT involvement. In addition, modern quality solutions integrate into your existing quality workflows and manufacturing processes.
Because quality control in manufacturing is constantly evolving, modern quality management solutions allow for a mix of manual, semi-automated, and fully automated data collection.
- Manual—Data collection can easily shift from pencil and paper to keyboards, touchscreens, or barcodes and become part of the “bigger picture.”
- Semi-automated—Operators can use connected scales, calipers, gauges, and custom devices to collect quality information when they’re on the plant floor.
- Fully Automated—Data from enterprise resource planning systems, automated test equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and “smart” sensors can feed directly into your InfinityQS quality improvement system without operator intervention.
No matter how or when data is collected, InfinityQS stores everything in a central data repository, along with the time, date, and shift. Once data is entered, anyone who’s responsible for quality—from operators to executives—can access, analyze, and act on the information.
Quality Alerts: Stay Focused on Quality, Not the Clock
Software brings standardization and consistency to quality checks, especially for time-based collections. Built-in alerts and scheduled reminders ensure that every timed check occurs on schedule, regardless of plant, shift, or machine. InfinityQS supports timed quality checks with:
- countdown clocks that monitor the schedule
- automatic notifications when checks are due
- manager notifications when a check is missed
- automatic assignment of rechecks or operator validation when data falls out of specification
Quality Alerts: Stay Focused on Quality, Not the Clock
Software brings standardization and consistency to quality checks, especially for time-based collections. Built-in alerts and scheduled reminders ensure that every timed check occurs on schedule, regardless of plant, shift, or machine. InfinityQS supports timed quality checks with:
- countdown clocks that monitor the schedule
- automatic notifications when checks are due
- manager notifications when a check is missed
- automatic assignment of rechecks or operator validation when data falls out of specification
Disciplined Data Collection, Flexible Management
When collection requirements or processes change, it’s easy to adapt digital collection processes and cascade that information throughout the organization. Managers simply adjust the data-collection requirements in the software, and they can include relevant information and instructions in the quality check notifications.
Testing requirements and standard operating procedures (SOPs) can be managed in the same way. Once the requirements and notification schedules are established, the software will trigger compliance workflows and automatically save data from the plant floor to a central repository.
Disciplined Data Collection, Flexible Management
When collection requirements or processes change, it’s easy to adapt digital collection processes and cascade that information throughout the organization. Managers simply adjust the data-collection requirements in the software, and they can include relevant information and instructions in the quality check notifications.
Testing requirements and standard operating procedures (SOPs) can be managed in the same way. Once the requirements and notification schedules are established, the software will trigger compliance workflows and automatically save data from the plant floor to a central repository.
Collect the Right Data, Right Now
Do you have the information you need to make strategic decisions and improve quality? InfinityQS software makes it easier to collect, access, and analyze the right information for your quality improvement journey.
Collect the Right Data, Right Now
Do you have the information you need to make strategic decisions and improve quality? InfinityQS software makes it easier to collect, access, and analyze the right information for your quality improvement journey.
Move Faster While Improving Product Quality in Manufacturing
When InfinityQS helped a semiconductor manufacturer transition from manual to software-based data collection, the company went from multiple, duplicate collection steps to one. Streamlining quality checks enabled the company to:
- Save time and simplify operator processes
- Improve the accuracy and timeliness of quality data
- Quickly identify and correct errors
- Improve operator morale
- Identify opportunities to learn and improve
A manufacturing engineer at the company said the whole manufacturing atmosphere changed “from the drudgery of manually recording data and sending it into a black hole to a feeling of ownership as people instantly saw their names and the data they entered.”
“As the projects and operators advance, we only expect to move faster and faster—with the same integrity,” he said.
Move Faster While Improving Product Quality in Manufacturing
When InfinityQS helped a semiconductor manufacturer transition from manual to software-based data collection, the company went from multiple, duplicate collection steps to one. Streamlining quality checks enabled the company to:
- Save time and simplify operator processes
- Improve the accuracy and timeliness of quality data
- Quickly identify and correct errors
- Improve operator morale
- Identify opportunities to learn and improve
A manufacturing engineer at the company said the whole manufacturing atmosphere changed “from the drudgery of manually recording data and sending it into a black hole to a feeling of ownership as people instantly saw their names and the data they entered.”
“As the projects and operators advance, we only expect to move faster and faster—with the same integrity,” he said.
Proving Quality Check Compliance: Hit the “Easy Button” on Audits
Industry audits are high-stakes events. SPC software can ease some of the stress by making data collection, storage, and retrieval a cinch.
- InfinityQS makes it quick and easy to prove that quality checks were completed correctly and on time.
- Reports can be customized (e.g., by shift, day, or event) and produced in minutes, since all of your quality data are held in a centralized and standardized repository.
- Information can be accessed from anywhere, anytime.
A purpose-built quality management solution can reduce audit prep and reporting time from days or weeks to mere minutes.
Proving Quality Check Compliance: Hit the “Easy Button” on Audits
Industry audits are high-stakes events. SPC software can ease some of the stress by making data collection, storage, and retrieval a cinch.
- InfinityQS makes it quick and easy to prove that quality checks were completed correctly and on time.
- Reports can be customized (e.g., by shift, day, or event) and produced in minutes, since all of your quality data are held in a centralized and standardized repository.
- Information can be accessed from anywhere, anytime.
A purpose-built quality management solution can reduce audit prep and reporting time from days or weeks to mere minutes.
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What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
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Quality Control Methods Can Uncover Opportunities
Before manufacturers can improve quality, they have to measure. Quality checks provide essential data that leaders need to make process improvement decisions. Quality monitoring and management is also required to verify that manufacturers are meeting regulatory requirements or customer specifications.
To gather all of the data they need to ensure quality standards are met, quality managers must juggle a variety of quality control methods. By the end of each day, they accumulate massive amounts of information. And then what?
Unfortunately, many quality managers lack time to do anything with their quality data beyond “checking the boxes.” That means they’re missing major opportunities.
By incorporating your proven quality control methods into a digital quality solution, you can access insights fast and resolve problems at lightning speed.
A Solid Foundation: Statistical Process Control for Quality Improvement
A top quality manufacturing approach starts with statistical process control (SPC), the industry-standard approach to measure and control manufacturing quality. At a fundamental level, SPC entails continuous and consistent inspection and mapping of results to reveal variations.
Companies who use SPC to drive continuous improvement are able to:
- Dramatically reduce waste and scrap
- Lower operating costs
- Minimize downtime
Real-time access to SPC quality data can change the way you approach quality. Rather than react to problems, you can prevent them.
Quality professionals strive to achieve these benefits by applying a wide range of quality control methods such as:
- Specifications—Manufacturers set requirements that a product or service must meet.
- In-Process Sampling—Either randomly or at timed intervals, sample units are pulled from the line for inspection, measured, and recorded.
- Control Limits—Sample results are compared against established statistical boundaries. The measurements are used to determine whether processes are operating as expected or exhibiting unusual behaviors. Using proper control limits, one can detect even small deviations from the established norm.
- Process Capability Indexing—Variations can be measured and compared to their specifications limits to quickly determine levels of expected fallout and visually see whether a problematic process is inherently not capable of meeting requirements, or if the fix is just a simple adjustment.
A Solid Foundation: Statistical Process Control for Quality Improvement
A top quality manufacturing approach starts with statistical process control (SPC), the industry-standard approach to measure and control manufacturing quality. At a fundamental level, SPC entails continuous and consistent inspection and mapping of results to reveal variations.
Companies who use SPC to drive continuous improvement are able to:
- Dramatically reduce waste and scrap
- Lower operating costs
- Minimize downtime
Real-time access to SPC quality data can change the way you approach quality. Rather than react to problems, you can prevent them.
Quality professionals strive to achieve these benefits by applying a wide range of quality control methods such as:
- Specifications—Manufacturers set requirements that a product or service must meet.
- In-Process Sampling—Either randomly or at timed intervals, sample units are pulled from the line for inspection, measured, and recorded.
- Control Limits—Sample results are compared against established statistical boundaries. The measurements are used to determine whether processes are operating as expected or exhibiting unusual behaviors. Using proper control limits, one can detect even small deviations from the established norm.
- Process Capability Indexing—Variations can be measured and compared to their specifications limits to quickly determine levels of expected fallout and visually see whether a problematic process is inherently not capable of meeting requirements, or if the fix is just a simple adjustment.
A Picture of Continuous Improvement
Process behaviors are brought to life using SPC control charts, which are graphical representations of a process’ output patterns compared to statistical limits. Control charts help quality leaders turn thousands of individual data points into an insightful story about quality. Because they provide an at-a-glance view of data, they may provide the first indication that quality is slipping, and they can guide in-depth investigations and analyses.
InfinityQS software is designed to intelligently build and display control charts so manufacturing leaders can solve quality problems quickly—and uncover new opportunities—without juggling spreadsheets or calling IT for support.
InfinityQS supports all the most commonly used SPC tools, such as:
- Individual X and Moving Range (IX-MR) Charts
- Xbar and Range (Xbar-R) Charts
- Xbar and s (Xbar-s) Charts
- Capability (Cp) and Performance (Cpk)
- Histograms
- Pareto
- Box-and-Whisker
A Picture of Continuous Improvement
Process behaviors are brought to life using SPC control charts, which are graphical representations of a process’ output patterns compared to statistical limits. Control charts help quality leaders turn thousands of individual data points into an insightful story about quality. Because they provide an at-a-glance view of data, they may provide the first indication that quality is slipping, and they can guide in-depth investigations and analyses.
InfinityQS software is designed to intelligently build and display control charts so manufacturing leaders can solve quality problems quickly—and uncover new opportunities—without juggling spreadsheets or calling IT for support.
InfinityQS supports all the most commonly used SPC tools, such as:
- Individual X and Moving Range (IX-MR) Charts
- Xbar and Range (Xbar-R) Charts
- Xbar and s (Xbar-s) Charts
- Capability (Cp) and Performance (Cpk)
- Histograms
- Pareto
- Box-and-Whisker
Do You Know Where to Focus Your Time?
InfinityQS solutions give quality professionals unprecedented visibility into products, processes, and operations without the burden, time, and effort of building charts and reports manually. See how our control charts, dashboards, and alerts help leaders prioritize and speed up quality improvement efforts—and maximize results.
Do You Know Where to Focus Your Time?
InfinityQS solutions give quality professionals unprecedented visibility into products, processes, and operations without the burden, time, and effort of building charts and reports manually. See how our control charts, dashboards, and alerts help leaders prioritize and speed up quality improvement efforts—and maximize results.
Improve Quality in Less Time
With traditional quality control tools, quality professionals are faced with too much to do and not enough time. Modern SPC-based quality management software can help manufacturers improve quality operations without draining their most valuable resource: time.
Leveraging SPC, InfinityQS solutions can:
- **Reduce complexity—**Visual models such as control charts and dashboards simplify quality control. Issues that need immediate attention stand out, and you can connect quality issues to their root causes faster.
- **Accelerate results—**With InfinityQS software, preventive or corrective actions can be taken in real time. Empowered team members can monitor quality control methods from nearly any device and initiate cost-saving measures without delay.
- **Take quality to the next level—**With strong quality control methods in place, manufacturing teams can uncover key opportunities for improvement and build a strong culture around quality.
Ramp up is easy. InfinityQS software is designed specifically for manufacturing companies and comes with intuitive user interfaces and extensive self-help resources. Data collection methods are designed to fit seamlessly into your existing production processes—and never burden operators or slow down the line.
Improve Quality in Less Time
With traditional quality control tools, quality professionals are faced with too much to do and not enough time. Modern SPC-based quality management software can help manufacturers improve quality operations without draining their most valuable resource: time.
Leveraging SPC, InfinityQS solutions can:
- **Reduce complexity—**Visual models such as control charts and dashboards simplify quality control. Issues that need immediate attention stand out, and you can connect quality issues to their root causes faster.
- **Accelerate results—**With InfinityQS software, preventive or corrective actions can be taken in real time. Empowered team members can monitor quality control methods from nearly any device and initiate cost-saving measures without delay.
- **Take quality to the next level—**With strong quality control methods in place, manufacturing teams can uncover key opportunities for improvement and build a strong culture around quality.
Ramp up is easy. InfinityQS software is designed specifically for manufacturing companies and comes with intuitive user interfaces and extensive self-help resources. Data collection methods are designed to fit seamlessly into your existing production processes—and never burden operators or slow down the line.
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What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
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Close the Gap between Insight and Action
Statistical process control (SPC) standardizes the processes that manufacturers use to collect and analyze quality data. Using SPC, manufacturers become better at predicting outcomes and improving their quality manufacturing processes.
When teams are working to improve quality in real time, they reduce the lag between data collection and proactive corrective actions.
InfinityQS solutions enable real-time data to flow seamlessly into existing workflows right “out of the box.” Once quality data are entered, they are saved to the unified data repository, building a comprehensive view of quality that can be dissected and analyzed across any number of factors, from product code to production line or geographic site.
The information is accessible and actionable too. Using easy-to-read dashboards and alerts, empowered team members can see where they need to focus their attention—right now—to protect quality and eliminate waste.
Time is money. InfinityQS solutions ensure that critical quality data is collected, analyzed, and put to use immediately.
Enable teams to take action and improve quality in real time.
Spot Quality Issues Before They Become Problems
To protect your company’s reputation and earning potential, you need to predict and prevent quality issues before they become full-scale problems. Once products fail in the field, are recalled, or generate customer complaints, recovery can be difficult (and costly) for manufacturers.
InfinityQS quality improvement solutions create a centralized and standardized place for your quality manufacturing data to reside. Real-time data collection, dashboard-level reporting, and automated alerts empower quality teams to act on the data in real time to head off quality problems.
Intervening early saves manufacturers from costly rework, scrap, waste, and upset customers. InfinityQS software gives operators, quality teams, and executives the information they need to control quality and maintain continuous improvement.
Spot Quality Issues Before They Become Problems
To protect your company’s reputation and earning potential, you need to predict and prevent quality issues before they become full-scale problems. Once products fail in the field, are recalled, or generate customer complaints, recovery can be difficult (and costly) for manufacturers.
InfinityQS quality improvement solutions create a centralized and standardized place for your quality manufacturing data to reside. Real-time data collection, dashboard-level reporting, and automated alerts empower quality teams to act on the data in real time to head off quality problems.
Intervening early saves manufacturers from costly rework, scrap, waste, and upset customers. InfinityQS software gives operators, quality teams, and executives the information they need to control quality and maintain continuous improvement.
When Do You Need Quality Data?
To maintain top quality manufacturing, operators and quality teams need data in real time. InfinityQS enables data collection, analysis, and reporting in real time so you can take steps to consistently protect quality. Right now.
When Do You Need Quality Data?
To maintain top quality manufacturing, operators and quality teams need data in real time. InfinityQS enables data collection, analysis, and reporting in real time so you can take steps to consistently protect quality. Right now.
Advantages of Quality in Real Time
The ability to monitor and analyze real-time data from anywhere can save manufacturers millions of dollars. With real-time data, manufacturers can reduce waste and scrap, prevent defects and recalls, and empower operators to protect quality.
On the Plant Floor: Reduce Waste, Prevent Defects, and Empower Operators
Machines or processes that are producing out-of-spec products or parts can waste time and materials, and even lead to product recalls. InfinityQS quality improvement solutions help manufacturers identify issues and pinpoint problem areas in real time and along the entire manufacturing process—not just during final testing.
InfinityQS helps manufacturers continually measure and improve their operations by:
- ensuring quality checks are completed consistently and accurately
- catching issues and non-conforming products as early as possible
- automatically alerting operators when a process, machine, or product falls out of spec
- drilling down into issues and trends so variations can be resolved faster
InfinityQS solutions enable users to monitor and respond to real-time quality data from any location, any time. Your data are stored in a centralized repository and standardized to accommodate detailed investigations into defect codes, shifts, customer codes, employees, lot numbers, or parts.
InfinityQS solutions give operators, engineers, and plant managers the tools and insight they need to identify, prioritize, and drive quality improvement.
Advantages of Quality in Real Time
The ability to monitor and analyze real-time data from anywhere can save manufacturers millions of dollars. With real-time data, manufacturers can reduce waste and scrap, prevent defects and recalls, and empower operators to protect quality.
On the Plant Floor: Reduce Waste, Prevent Defects, and Empower Operators
Machines or processes that are producing out-of-spec products or parts can waste time and materials, and even lead to product recalls. InfinityQS quality improvement solutions help manufacturers identify issues and pinpoint problem areas in real time and along the entire manufacturing process—not just during final testing.
InfinityQS helps manufacturers continually measure and improve their operations by:
- ensuring quality checks are completed consistently and accurately
- catching issues and non-conforming products as early as possible
- automatically alerting operators when a process, machine, or product falls out of spec
- drilling down into issues and trends so variations can be resolved faster
InfinityQS solutions enable users to monitor and respond to real-time quality data from any location, any time. Your data are stored in a centralized repository and standardized to accommodate detailed investigations into defect codes, shifts, customer codes, employees, lot numbers, or parts.
InfinityQS solutions give operators, engineers, and plant managers the tools and insight they need to identify, prioritize, and drive quality improvement.
Across the Enterprise: Turn Information into Strategy
At the corporate level, one person may oversee several products, plants, or regions. A unified data repository that’s updated and accessible in real time helps off-site managers stay tightly connected to daily operations—even at remote facilities.
When quality leaders have accurate and timely information at their fingertips, manufacturing organizations gain the following benefits:
- Speed—Quality leaders can pull information, track trends, and respond to audits in a fraction of the time required with manual or siloed data management solutions.
- Powerful analytic capabilities—Leaders can compare products, shifts, processes, and sites in a single chart or dashboard without performing exports or complex calculations.
- Strategic insight—With the ability to analyze historical and aggregated data, quality managers can develop best practices and uncover new approaches to achieve quality that provides a competitive advantage.
- Confidence—Managers can verify, in real time, that quality manufacturing processes are being followed precisely across lines, shifts, and sites.
Across the Enterprise: Turn Information into Strategy
At the corporate level, one person may oversee several products, plants, or regions. A unified data repository that’s updated and accessible in real time helps off-site managers stay tightly connected to daily operations—even at remote facilities.
When quality leaders have accurate and timely information at their fingertips, manufacturing organizations gain the following benefits:
- Speed—Quality leaders can pull information, track trends, and respond to audits in a fraction of the time required with manual or siloed data management solutions.
- Powerful analytic capabilities—Leaders can compare products, shifts, processes, and sites in a single chart or dashboard without performing exports or complex calculations.
- Strategic insight—With the ability to analyze historical and aggregated data, quality managers can develop best practices and uncover new approaches to achieve quality that provides a competitive advantage.
- Confidence—Managers can verify, in real time, that quality manufacturing processes are being followed precisely across lines, shifts, and sites.
A Food and Beverage Manufacturer Cut $2.2M in Waste with On Demand SPC Software
A leading North American consumer packaged Food and Beverage company needed to decrease plant-to-plant manufacturing variations and reduce waste. The company leveraged InfinityQS SPC-driven and cloud-based quality management software to pool real-time manufacturing data from six sites and a corporate lab into a single, secure data repository.
With immediate access to real-time performance data, the quality assurance team was able to quickly find and respond to fluctuations in data. See what they uncovered—and how it changed the business.
A Food and Beverage Manufacturer Cut $2.2M in Waste with On Demand SPC Software
A leading North American consumer packaged Food and Beverage company needed to decrease plant-to-plant manufacturing variations and reduce waste. The company leveraged InfinityQS SPC-driven and cloud-based quality management software to pool real-time manufacturing data from six sites and a corporate lab into a single, secure data repository.
With immediate access to real-time performance data, the quality assurance team was able to quickly find and respond to fluctuations in data. See what they uncovered—and how it changed the business.
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What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
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Manufacturing Excellence Starts with the Data You Already Have
Modern manufacturers have two choices: to simply meet quality and regulatory standards or to pursue manufacturing excellence and reset the bar. Which do you choose?
The insight you need to break through quality barriers and transform your manufacturing organization is within reach. It’s in your quality metrics.
The metrics you measure are more than just report cards and to-do lists. They can help you adapt, thrive, and thrill customers with reliably high quality. The challenge is being able to see into that vast amount of data to determine which quality initiatives should rise to the top.
The key is to standardize and centralize your quality data in a single repository. Once performance data from different quality systems are unified, they can be turned into manufacturing intelligence.
Stop solving problems and start pursuing excellence. Use quality metrics to launch a perpetual cycle of continuous improvement.
Get the Total Quality Picture
What would happen if you only read 2% of your emails? You’d miss a lot.
That’s exactly what many manufacturing organizations are doing with their collected data; they dig deep into exception data and ignore the majority of their quality metrics. By doing so, they miss opportunities to make substantive, system-wide improvements.
InfinityQS quality improvement software aggregates a variety of quality metrics—and yes, this includes in-spec data, so it’s easy to compare performance across lines, parts, plants, and other key factors. Whether data are collected manually or through automation, they all flow into one place. Then the data are standardized so access to the information and analysis becomes easy, and you can see the “big picture” of quality across the organization.
Statistical process control (SPC)-driven dashboards and control charts bring quality priorities into focus. With access to this clarified data in real time, your busy executives can identify opportunities for huge improvements in quality, customer satisfaction, and profitability.
Get the Total Quality Picture
What would happen if you only read 2% of your emails? You’d miss a lot.
That’s exactly what many manufacturing organizations are doing with their collected data; they dig deep into exception data and ignore the majority of their quality metrics. By doing so, they miss opportunities to make substantive, system-wide improvements.
InfinityQS quality improvement software aggregates a variety of quality metrics—and yes, this includes in-spec data, so it’s easy to compare performance across lines, parts, plants, and other key factors. Whether data are collected manually or through automation, they all flow into one place. Then the data are standardized so access to the information and analysis becomes easy, and you can see the “big picture” of quality across the organization.
Statistical process control (SPC)-driven dashboards and control charts bring quality priorities into focus. With access to this clarified data in real time, your busy executives can identify opportunities for huge improvements in quality, customer satisfaction, and profitability.
Better Decisions Lead to Better Quality
InfinityQS solutions help leaders model process capability so they can evaluate the impacts of quality improvement initiatives—and prioritize those that will have the most value.
Data stream grading, for example, enables executives to visually expose and isolate those areas of potential improvements. All streams of data are given a score based on actual performance versus expected performance, giving leaders a clear picture of what’s working, where they need to deploy Six Sigma support, and what they stand to gain.
Simple color-coded matrices show leaders where to capture “quick wins” and which processes will deliver transformational improvement.
With detailed metrics at their fingertips, executives gain visibility across the entire enterprise. Quality excellence that’s achieved in one plant or line can be replicated across the organization to maximize the impact and multiply return on investment (ROI). Even with limited resources, quality manufacturing leaders can turn data into intelligence and better-informed decisions.
Better Decisions Lead to Better Quality
InfinityQS solutions help leaders model process capability so they can evaluate the impacts of quality improvement initiatives—and prioritize those that will have the most value.
Data stream grading, for example, enables executives to visually expose and isolate those areas of potential improvements. All streams of data are given a score based on actual performance versus expected performance, giving leaders a clear picture of what’s working, where they need to deploy Six Sigma support, and what they stand to gain.
Simple color-coded matrices show leaders where to capture “quick wins” and which processes will deliver transformational improvement.
With detailed metrics at their fingertips, executives gain visibility across the entire enterprise. Quality excellence that’s achieved in one plant or line can be replicated across the organization to maximize the impact and multiply return on investment (ROI). Even with limited resources, quality manufacturing leaders can turn data into intelligence and better-informed decisions.
Which Quality Metrics Matter Most?
All of your quality metrics matter—not just the defects or “lessons learned.” InfinityQS quality improvement solutions collect and combine all of your quality data into a single system so you can compare and improve performance across the enterprise. See what’s happening in your organization in real time and over time.
Which Quality Metrics Matter Most?
All of your quality metrics matter—not just the defects or “lessons learned.” InfinityQS quality improvement solutions collect and combine all of your quality data into a single system so you can compare and improve performance across the enterprise. See what’s happening in your organization in real time and over time.
See What’s Ahead to Stay Ahead
InfinityQS helps manufacturers prevent quality issues rather than simply respond to them. Built to support quality manufacturing with real-time SPC, InfinityQS software gives leaders the information they need to predict quality outcomes, when and where they need it.
Dashboards transform key quality data into digestible summaries, so quality leaders can take proactive steps to reduce risk, increase efficiency, improve profitability, and produce top-quality products.
In modern manufacturing, it’s not enough to know what happened yesterday. To achieve quality excellence, you need to know what’s happening right now, what will happen if you take action, and where to begin.
See What’s Ahead to Stay Ahead
InfinityQS helps manufacturers prevent quality issues rather than simply respond to them. Built to support quality manufacturing with real-time SPC, InfinityQS software gives leaders the information they need to predict quality outcomes, when and where they need it.
Dashboards transform key quality data into digestible summaries, so quality leaders can take proactive steps to reduce risk, increase efficiency, improve profitability, and produce top-quality products.
In modern manufacturing, it’s not enough to know what happened yesterday. To achieve quality excellence, you need to know what’s happening right now, what will happen if you take action, and where to begin.
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What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
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Extend and Empower Your Quality Team
In modern manufacturing organizations, quality professionals seek to tightly manage every step in every process to ensure consistent quality—a task that becomes more challenging as production lines cross staff, processes, and plants.
Using statistical process control (SPC) for quality improvement can alleviate some of the complexity. SPC brings a systematic approach to data collection and analyses, no matter where they occur. Quality team leaders set the expectations for data collection (i.e., what, when, and how), and establish acceptable deviations. Unfortunately, traditional quality control in manufacturing ends there. The value of that data is often limited to a single use, verification of compliance, or an adjustment justification.
A central data repository extends the benefits of SPC by making the quality data you collect accessible throughout the organization, whether that’s on the plant floor or in the executive board room. With a single repository for quality data, commonly “siloed” information comes together to create a singular, company-wide picture of quality.
Making quality data consistent, accessible, and actionable empowers every team member to put quality first.
Usable, accessible quality data empowers everyone, from the plant floor to the executive board room, to be part of the quality team.
Get Everyone on the Quality Team
Standardization and centralization of data establishes a common language—and expectation—surrounding quality that cascades throughout the organization. When every team member is using the same playbook, some of the complexity dissipates. In its place, manufacturing organizations can introduce ways to improve quality and productivity.
Quality-focused teams can realize greater benefits from their statistical process control efforts.
Eliminate error-prone processes
Manual data collection can lead to “garbage in, garbage out,” wasting the time and resources it takes to collect and analyze the data. Handwritten data can be difficult to interpret, and paper reports can become lost or damaged. If data is missing or indecipherable during an audit, the results can be costly.
InfinityQS solutions enable semi-automated and automated data collection, as well as automated alerts and notifications, to ensure checks are completed and data is accurate. And centralizing your data in a single repository helps you build a clear picture of quality across the organization.
Empower real-time decision-making
Siloed data leads to slower decision-making. In contrast, InfinityQS quality improvement solutions make it easy for you to access data in real time—by production line, plant, or region—at the same pace you need to make quality decisions. Operations managers and quality team members know the moment an issue arises so they can take steps to preserve quality or avoid costly missteps.
Plan more efficiently
With a centralized data repository, empowered users can create and pull reports when they need them, without waiting for IT to merge data from multiple systems or manage a massive export. With accurate and complete data, you can easily plot a continuous improvement journey.
Identify high-impact quality improvements
With accessible, data-backed insights, quality teams can find the most influential quality initiatives to undertake as a company—by region, product, or plant. InfinityQS solutions help you spot transformative opportunities that might otherwise be buried in spreadsheets or stuck in an operational silo. And purpose-built analytical tools help you determine which initiatives will deliver the biggest and fastest ROI.
Save valuable time and money
Quality control in manufacturing is intended to save time and money—not drain resources or become just one more cost center. Quality management software solutions from InfinityQS help your whole quality team increase profits by improving some of the costliest manufacturing metrics like scrap and rework, unplanned downtime, overtime, defect costs, and warranty claims.
Get Everyone on the Quality Team
Standardization and centralization of data establishes a common language—and expectation—surrounding quality that cascades throughout the organization. When every team member is using the same playbook, some of the complexity dissipates. In its place, manufacturing organizations can introduce ways to improve quality and productivity.
Quality-focused teams can realize greater benefits from their statistical process control efforts.
Eliminate error-prone processes
Manual data collection can lead to “garbage in, garbage out,” wasting the time and resources it takes to collect and analyze the data. Handwritten data can be difficult to interpret, and paper reports can become lost or damaged. If data is missing or indecipherable during an audit, the results can be costly.
InfinityQS solutions enable semi-automated and automated data collection, as well as automated alerts and notifications, to ensure checks are completed and data is accurate. And centralizing your data in a single repository helps you build a clear picture of quality across the organization.
Empower real-time decision-making
Siloed data leads to slower decision-making. In contrast, InfinityQS quality improvement solutions make it easy for you to access data in real time—by production line, plant, or region—at the same pace you need to make quality decisions. Operations managers and quality team members know the moment an issue arises so they can take steps to preserve quality or avoid costly missteps.
Plan more efficiently
With a centralized data repository, empowered users can create and pull reports when they need them, without waiting for IT to merge data from multiple systems or manage a massive export. With accurate and complete data, you can easily plot a continuous improvement journey.
Identify high-impact quality improvements
With accessible, data-backed insights, quality teams can find the most influential quality initiatives to undertake as a company—by region, product, or plant. InfinityQS solutions help you spot transformative opportunities that might otherwise be buried in spreadsheets or stuck in an operational silo. And purpose-built analytical tools help you determine which initiatives will deliver the biggest and fastest ROI.
Save valuable time and money
Quality control in manufacturing is intended to save time and money—not drain resources or become just one more cost center. Quality management software solutions from InfinityQS help your whole quality team increase profits by improving some of the costliest manufacturing metrics like scrap and rework, unplanned downtime, overtime, defect costs, and warranty claims.
Empowered Quality Teams Improve Manufacturing Quality
Ready to empower every team member to put quality first? Take a peek at the features, analytics, dashboards, and reports in InfinityQS software to see how you can improve quality using data you already have.
Empowered Quality Teams Improve Manufacturing Quality
Ready to empower every team member to put quality first? Take a peek at the features, analytics, dashboards, and reports in InfinityQS software to see how you can improve quality using data you already have.
Connect Your Teams, Improve Your Quality
Putting actionable information into the hands of every empowered team member—from operators to quality professionals to executive leaders—prevents quality disruptions and moves the organization toward quality manufacturing best practices. Working together, you can achieve stronger quality outcomes that transform the entire enterprise, such as:
- Optimized production
- Cost, defect, and recall reduction
- Reduced risk and downtime
- Improved product compliance and lower audit costs
- Better yields at the process, plant, regional, and enterprise levels
InfinityQS quality improvement solutions bring data and people together throughout the manufacturing process. The result is greater efficiency, better product consistency, and overall higher manufacturing quality.
Connect Your Teams, Improve Your Quality
Putting actionable information into the hands of every empowered team member—from operators to quality professionals to executive leaders—prevents quality disruptions and moves the organization toward quality manufacturing best practices. Working together, you can achieve stronger quality outcomes that transform the entire enterprise, such as:
- Optimized production
- Cost, defect, and recall reduction
- Reduced risk and downtime
- Improved product compliance and lower audit costs
- Better yields at the process, plant, regional, and enterprise levels
InfinityQS quality improvement solutions bring data and people together throughout the manufacturing process. The result is greater efficiency, better product consistency, and overall higher manufacturing quality.
Speak to a InfinityQS Expert
What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Explore which solutions best suit your needs
- No-pressure conversation
- Get a live, personalized demo
Customers using Advantive in quality advisor
“Enact helps us quickly respond to quality issues, which saves us money.”
““What sets Ben & Jerry’s apart from our competitors is not only our insistence on high-quality ingredients, but also the extra and unique flavours we use to create a euphoric customer experience. Ensuring the final product reflects the passion and quality that we put into each pint required a quality solution that emphasized the same attention to details that we do.””
““By utilizing InfinityQS® ProFicient™ 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.””