What’s New in SPC

Featured news about NWA products and SPC

• Training Seminar
  The next NWA Quality Analyst Training Seminar will be held in Chicago, IL on October 25-26, 2010.
• ISO 22000 Compliant Food Safety Systems
  This webcast examines the ISO 22000 standard and the role of standard commercial software in implementing a compliant food-safety-management system (FSMS).
• NWA Quality Analyst Goes Global for Better Nutrition
  Fortitech, the world leader in the development of custom nutrient premixes for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, chose NWA Quality Analyst as its SPC standard. Speed, ease of use, and integration help the company expand its global business.
• Rockwood Monitors Pigment Performance Around the World
  Rockwood Pigments decided to make a significant investment in its IT infrastructure to improve process management for the Taicang and Shenzhen plants in China. A central application in this upgrade is the NWA Quality Information System.
• Brewing the Best with the NWA Quality Information System
  As a major player in the craft brewing industry, Widmer looked at how to push their brewing-process performance to the next level. Widmer decided to add NWA Quality Information System to their process-management resources.
• Food Safety in the Food Supply Chain
  The television program Feast or Famine looks into the challenges of feeding the world. NWA was an active participant in episode 102, “Food Safety in the Food Supply Chain,” which features the ground-beef purchase system of the National School Lunch Program as an example of a successful food-safety and quality system.
• Gallo Glass uses NWA Quality Analytics and Reporting for World Class Production (PDF)
  The Gallo Glass plant in Modesto CA is one of world’s largest bottle plants. They built their own optimized Shop Floor Information System (SFIS) based on commercial software packages for rapid and cost-effective implementation, and minimal long-term maintenance. They chose GE Fanuc iFIX for user interface configuration, MS SQL (updated from Oracle) for database management, and Northwest Analytical Quality Software for SPC and manufacturing analytics reporting.
• Huhtamaki Uses Integrated Plant Floor SPC to Save Material Costs Making Plastic Tableware
  Huhtamaki Americas operates seventeen manufacturing facilities in North and South America which produce paperboard, plastic, and molded fiber packaging for consumer and food products. The Coleman, MI Huhtamaki facility specializes in plastic thermoforming operations to produce disposable plastic tableware. Using SPC and continuous process improvement methods is the corporate standard process management method and NWA Quality software is the standard SPC software tool.
• ISA-95: The Manufacturing System Standard That Enables Manufacturing Analytics
  Manufacturing Analytics (MA) applies process-oriented analytical and visualization methods to all aspects of managing a manufacturing company. It can produce significant results only if the process data is properly collected, managed and manipulated. The ISA (Instruments, Systems, and Analysis Society) Standards Committee for the ISA-95 standard has produced a model which defines all parts of the manufacturing enterprise management and how they link together.

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