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WinSPC: Drive Manufacturing Excellence with Real-Time SPC

Real-time statistical process control software for plant-floor quality monitoring.

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Real-time SPC at the operator station — 2,500+ manufacturing facilities worldwide across food/bev, pharma, automotive, and electronics

  • GAFMC

Outcomes

What customers measure

  • 39.5%

    reduction in manufacturing variance in 4 months — GAFMC (roofing manufacturer)

  • 2,500+

    installed manufacturing facilities worldwide

  • 500+

    API methods and properties for bidirectional integration with ERP, MES, and SCADA

What it does

What WinSPC does

  • Real-time control charts and plant monitoring

    Collect measurement data from gauges, PLCs, CMMs, and other devices as it is produced and display live control charts at each collection station. A plant monitor view gives supervisors a summary of every station from one screen.

    • Connects to RS232/USB gauges, ODBC databases, CMMs, PLCs via OPC/OLE/DDE, and CSV/Excel files
    • Simple three-step device connection process
    • WECO and custom rule violations trigger immediate operator alerts
  • Automated alerts and closed-loop triggers

    When a rule violation or non-conformance occurs, WinSPC can alert personnel, execute custom programs, shut down machines, or communicate bidirectionally with MES, ERP, or corrective-action systems.

    • Configurable trigger library covers email, SMS, machine shutdown, and custom program execution
    • Bidirectional API with 500+ methods and properties for system integration
    • Closes the detection-to-correction loop without manual handoffs
  • Cost Inspector — translate variation into dollars

    Identify the financial cost of give-away, overfill, rework, and scrap across all operations. Calculate potential savings per unit by reducing process variation or shifting the process mean.

    • Searches process data across all operations to surface costly variation sources
    • Produces cost-based reports for executive management ROI reporting
    • Links historical process data to current and projected manufacturing cost
  • Regulatory compliance — FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ISO, TS, USDA

    Built-in electronic signature workflows, tamper-evident event logging, and role-based security support regulated-industry audit requirements without additional configuration.

    • FDA 21 CFR Part 11 electronic signatures and forced logout enforcement
    • Full system event log: spec changes, deletions, configuration changes, operator sign-offs
    • DataNet Validation Toolkit provides IQ/OQ/PQ documentation for FDA software validation

Deep dive

How WinSPC works in your operation

WinSPC empowers manufacturers to optimize quality, reduce waste, and ensure compliance with ease.

With real-time data collection and analysis, your team can make confident, data-driven decisions to boost efficiency and meet stringent industry standards. Discover how WinSPC can transform your production processes and deliver measurable outcomes for your business.

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Trusted by hundreds of growing manufacturers:

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Announcement

The most significant release of WinSPC in years

We are preparing to launch WinSPC 10, a major release that introduces significant performance improvements and new functionality to help you optimize quality across your manufacturing operations. Diverse, fast and complex manufacturing flows require tools that collect everything now, integrate information from all locations, and facilitate immediate, deep analysis. WinSPC 10 goes to the heart of this requirement.

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Real-Time Statistical Software Solutions for Actionable Decision Making

WinSPC empowers manufacturers to improve products, processes, and profitability through real-time statistical software solutions. Our trusted and capable statistical process control (SPC) software provide the integral tools and functionality you need to create the highest quality product for the lowest possible cost. With an intuitive, user-friendly interface to quickly create, organize, and manage quality programs on a global scale, our SPC solutions are used by quality teams to improve product quality, reduce process variation, and optimize manufacturing processes.

Data Collection

Collect shop-floor data in real-time from virtually any source—gauges, devices, machines, and other data sources. Our flexible SPC software comes with a simple three-step connection process that makes it easy to simply connect and begin collecting data from almost anything.

  • Connect and collect data from any RS232 serial or USB device
  • Capture data from text files, .csv files, Microsoft Excel, any ODBC-compliant database, or machines such as CMMs or PLCs
  • Integrate with other manufacturing systems using ODBC, OPC, OLE, DDE, and built-in APIs supports hundreds of methods and properties

Plant Monitoring

Empower your operators with actionable intelligence and statistical analysis on plant performance. Our SPC software includes real-time control charts on the shop floor and plant monitor functionality to enable your team to immediately detect and correct process issues and manage your operations more effectively. It runs on the desktop and shows accurate statistics for every data collection station in one convenient window—giving managers a summary view of their plant’s performance from a single screen.

Automatic Alerts and Triggers

Automatically alert personnel, execute custom programs, shut down machines, or engage other systems if a non-conformance or rule violation occurs using WinSPC’s built-in triggers. Whether your requirements are as simple as sending an email or as complex as triggering a process within a corrective action system, our SPC solution gives you the power to close the quality loop from “detection-to-correction.”

  • Use a simple pull-down menu to schedule a variety of different notifications and alarms for nearly any condition
  • Program your own custom triggers to schedule enterprise-wide alarms or communicate bidirectionally with other systems or machines or send a command to a device

Cost Inspection

Identify the hidden cost of give-away, overfill, rework or scrap that weaken a company’s profits using WinSPC’s Cost Inspector. The Cost Inspector links manufacturing cost information with current and historical process data, empowering quality teams to:

  • Search process data across all operations to uncover costly process problems
  • Identify sources of give-away, overfill, scrap or waste
  • Calculate potential savings per unit by reducing process variation or shifting processes to optimal mean
  • Translate process improvement statistics into dollars saved for the company
  • Produce cost-based reports to show executive management the return on investments in quality

Regulatory Compliance

Answer questions, detect changes, discover trends, and make decisions that count with DataNet’s data sets, variable analyzer, and custom reports.

  • Data Sets: Identify, prevent, and prioritize quality issues at a macro level. Unlike the traditional microscopic nature of SPC, which focuses on a specific variable, data sets offer a broad view of your database—enabling you to proactively monitor and uncover high-priority issues.
  • Variable Analyzer: Experiment, visualize, and reveal more information about any variable using the one-click variable analyzer. The variable analyzer delivers both point-of-production and historical analysis capabilities. It puts an entire set of statistical tools at your fingertips—giving you a comprehensive view of your data from one convenient screen.
  • Reports: Quickly create, publish, and share quality reports across your organization using our easy-to-use graphical report builder and dozens of standard report templates.

Bring Your Real-Time SPC Program to Life with Advantive

Today’s companies have high expectations for performance and little room for mistakes. With decades of helping manufacturers and distributors across the globe, Advantive is dedicated to delivering a high level of customer service and support, shop floor expertise, and professional services specializing in continuous improvement, Six Sigma, and lean manufacturing.

Advanced Learning

Expect straightforward resources and advice from veteran industry practitioners, who understand your challenges and the benefits of an SPC system.

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Technical Support

With over 2,500 installed facilities worldwide and distributors across the globe, WinSPC is dedicated to delivering a high level of customer service and support.

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Comprehensive Training

Our instructors offer a variety of administrator, fundamentals and customized virtual and onsite training to fit your user’s learning style.

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Easily Connect to Other Business Systems

Share your data between WinSPC software and other critical manufacturing applications such as MES, ERP, HMI, or LIMS systems. Our built-in API’s with over 500 methods and properties allow you to bi-directionally communicate and offer proven integration success with other systems like SAP, Oracle, Delmia, Wonderware, GE Proficy, Plex, MS Dynamics, AspenTech, Factory Link, Labview, and many more. Other services include:

  • CMM Integration
  • Data Migration
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Blog

GAFMC Raises the Roof on Reliability and Productivity with WinSPC

Learn how North America’s largest manufacturer of commercial and residential roofing uses WinSPC software to reduce manufacturing variance by 39.5% in 4 months.

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Integrations

Works with the systems you already run

  • SAP

    ERP

  • Oracle

    ERP

  • MS Dynamics

    ERP

  • Plex

    ERP / MES

  • Wonderware

    OT / SCADA

  • GE Proficy

    OT / SCADA

  • Delmia

    MES

  • LIMS systems

    Lab

  • CMM systems

    Metrology

  • OPC / OLE / DDE

    OT protocols

FAQ

Common questions about WinSPC

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What data sources can WinSPC collect from?

WinSPC collects from RS232 and USB digital gauges, calipers, and micrometers; CMMs; PLCs via OPC, OLE, and DDE protocols; ODBC-compliant databases; CSV and Excel files; and machines such as vision systems and test stations. The three-step connection process is designed for plant-floor IT skill levels.

How is WinSPC different from InfinityQS Enact?

WinSPC is an on-premise, operator-station SPC product designed around the individual collection point. InfinityQS Enact is cloud-native and optimized for multi-plant enterprise rollup and cross-site comparison. Many customers run both: WinSPC at the inspection station for real-time operator feedback, InfinityQS for plant-level and portfolio-level analytics. They are complementary rather than competing.

Does WinSPC support FDA 21 CFR Part 11?

Yes. WinSPC supports electronic signatures, forced logouts for session security, role-based privilege assignment, and a full system event log that records every configuration change, limit modification, and operator action. DataNet also offers a Validation Toolkit with IQ/OQ/PQ documentation templates and turn-key validation services for FDA-regulated environments.

What industries use WinSPC?

WinSPC is used in food and beverage (including baking, dairy, and seafood), pharmaceutical and medical device, automotive, aerospace and defense, electronics, and construction materials manufacturing. Any regulated or quality-intensive discrete or process manufacturer with operator-station inspection requirements is a candidate.

Can WinSPC trigger corrective action or shut down equipment automatically?

Yes. WinSPC's trigger system can send alerts, execute custom programs, communicate with corrective action systems, or issue machine shutdown commands when rule violations occur. The bidirectional API supports 500+ methods and properties for integration with MES, ERP, and SCADA systems.

Is implementation handled by Advantive or by a partner?

Advantive provides direct implementation services for all brands. A named implementation lead is assigned at kickoff and stays with the project through go-live. Partner-led implementations are available for select brands when a customer prefers an existing systems integrator.

How does this product connect to Advantive ONE?

Advantive ONE extends each brand with cross-system intelligence — surfacing patterns across your ERP, MES, quality, and warehouse data. It runs as a layer on top of your product, not a replacement. Customers on a current support contract are eligible.

What does the support contract include?

Standard support covers software updates, the customer portal (knowledge base + ticketing), and the Advantive support team during business hours in your region. Premium tiers add dedicated customer success, extended SLA coverage, and 24/7 critical-incident response.

Library

Resources, case studies, and webinars on WinSPC

60resources from customers, product specialists, and Advantive research — relevant to WinSPC.

Security & compliance

Enterprise-ready certifications

  • SOC 2 Type II
  • GDPR-ready
  • 21 CFR Part 11
  • ISO 9001-ready
  • IATF 16949-ready

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