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Industries Using WinSPC
WinSPC has a proven track record in almost every industry. We are fascinated by the many ways our diverse base of customers has implemented WinSPC to improve quality. Whether your processes assemble, batch, build, etch, fill, heat treat, machine, mix, mold, package, proof, print, test, weld, or perform some other precision operation, similar processes are probably right now being controlled and improved with WinSPC. If your industry is not represented in the sampling below, please reach out to us so we can share our experiences with companies like yours.
Transportation and Defense
Manufacturers in the transportation and defense industries are required to verify parts are being made to customer specifications and are often expected to provide regular updates that ensure quality levels are being met. If you are currently only writing quality test results on paper or typing data into Excel, then the return on investment for an automated system is typically realized within 4 months. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…
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ABC Automotive A.B. Heller ADAC Automotive Trim ADAC Door Components Advics Aerojet Rocketdyne Aerospace Alloys Agco Corporation Almond Products Anchor Manufacturing Angus-Palm Ansaldo STS Aptiv (Delphi) Birla Carbon Borg Warner Bluescope Steel Burkland CNH Global NV Constellium Muscle Shoals LLC Contour Aerospace Cutting Edge Optronics Dana DBG Metal Manufacturing Diamond Chain Eaton EFW Inc (Elbit Systems of America) Federal Mogul Flex N Gate General Dynamics Goodrich Corporation Grandeur Fasteners GT Technologies Hanwha Azdel Harley-Davidson Hendrickson Manufacturing Henman Engineering & Machine Hitachi Metals Automotive Components |
Honeywell International Huron, Inc. International Automotive Company IS Tech Americas ITW JAE Tech Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A Key Fasteners LAI International Magna Seating Means Industries Messier-Bugatti USA Metaldyne Miasa Automotive Modern Forge New Hampshire Ball Bearings North American Lighting PACEM Defense Pall Aeropower Parker Hannifin Corporation Penn Union Corp. Port City Die Cast R.H. Sheppard Company SEGEPO-FSM Spartan Light Metal Products Superior Industries de Mexico SA de CV Tolomatic Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Triumph Gear Systems TS Tech Unimotion Gear – Magna International Victor Manufacturing Vitron Manufacturing Ward Corp. Wegmann Automotive Yanfeng Automotive |
Consumer Goods and Construction Materials
Some of the world’s finest brands trust WinSPC as part of their continuous improvement and Six Sigma programs. In the consumer goods and construction materials marketplaces, brand quality and customer satisfaction mean everything. WinSPC allows manufacturers to consistently produce high quality products while continuously improving manufacturing productivity. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…
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3M Scott Fire & Safety 4M Precision Stamping ABC Trufast Advance Turning & Mfg Ajax Rolled Ring and Machine Allfast Fastening Systems Aluminum Blanking American Standard Ametek ArcelorMittal Dofasco Arkansas Steel Associates Ascutney Metal Products Atlantic Steel Tube CCI/Speer Cedar Lake Engineering Chamberlain Group Chicago Powdered Metal Products Chromalloy Castings Cloyes Gear & Products Crane Electronics Crenlo Deco Products Company Diamond Wire Donaldson Company DRS Optronics Engineered Materials Solutions Energizer Envision Faultless Starch/ Bon Ami Co. Ferguson Perforating Fort Wayne Metals Gallatin Steel Herker Industries Hitachi Metals Howell Machine Innovative Solutions Jarden Safety & Security Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products Killark Electric Manufacturing Kondex Corp. Lab126 Lee’s Grinding Leupold & Stevens Lewis Engineering Lindall Loos & Co. Lorillard Tobacco |
Mac Steel Tube & Pipe Mannington Mills Marietta Corp. Martin Electronics Maysteel MetlSaw Systems Metokote Milwaukee Tool Modern Manufacturing Monogram Metals New England Precision Northwest Pipe Company Note Printing Australia Nucor Steel Oberg Industries Pacific Coast Companies Power Components Price Manufacturing Co. Quality Machining Raytheon Company Rockfon North America Ross Mould Seksun International Pte Ltd. Sierra Bullets Skilled Manufacturing Solidiform Stanley Black & Decker Sterling Die & Engineering Sumika Electronic Materials Superior Tube Company Swedwood Danville Swiss Automation TE Connectivity Teledyne Microwave Solutions Theta Industries Limited Tippmann Sports Trane Transphorm TRMI Tube Specialties Tyco Electronics Weather Shield Welded Tubes Werner Co Wieland Chase Worthington Cylinders |
Food and Beverage
WinSPC offers all the tools for food and beverage companies to automate data collection of weights, temperatures, and other product quality checks, and then control processes with real-time charts and alarms. Within the first 90 days, our customers tell us that they are able to dramatically reduce variability and improve performance-to-target. Plus, WinSPC provides powerful dashboard views, reports, and analysis tools to monitor activities and investigate issues. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…
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American Pop Corn Company Ann’s House of Nuts Automatic Rolls of Virginia Bama Companies Bimbo QSR Country Pure Foods Crest Foods Crosswind Petfoods Ed Miniat Elkhart Products Corp. Ellison Bakery Ferrara Pan Candy Company Fontanini Foods Gonnella Frozen Products Hershey Foods Corporation Hillshire |
Kerry Ingredients Kraft Foods Lassonde MinuteMaid Company Nestle-Purina Pet Care Pinnacle Foods Group Roskam Baking Company Ryt-Way Industries Sara Lee Bakery Group Seneca Foods Standard Candy Tribeca Oven Tropicana Products Welch’s Wrigley |
Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical
Today’s manufacturers of medical devices and pharmaceutical products often have hundreds of critical Quality tests to track during production and, in many cases, that data needs to be maintained for long periods of time. Attempting to apply SPC using paper or Excel is a common starting point. But these manual methods require a lot of overhead and offer little help in identifying root causes. Automating SPC activities can reveal hidden variations in a process, provide timely feedback to trends and patterns that lead to defects, and reduce the inaccuracy that is common with paper-based solutions. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…
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Abbott Laboratories Applied Medical Resources Austen BioInnovation Institute Astellas Pharma Bausch & Lomb Beckman Coulter Becton Dickinson-Ireland Bihler of America Bristol-Myers Carleton Life Support Centrix Dupont HIMS Harmac Medical Innovize Idex Health & Science Lake Region Medical |
Life Serve Blood Center Medtronic-Mexico Nanometrics Orchid Orthopedic Solutions Optinova Paragon Medical Pharma Tech SCA-Produits D’Hygiene Sensient Flavors SonoSite Superior Tube Symmetry Medical U.S.A. Terumo Medical Corp. Teva Pharmaceutical Waters Corp. Zeiss Optics |
Plastics and Packaging
Consistent package performance, whether a carton or bottle, is a critical trait that allows your customers to improve their filling line efficiency and minimize downtime due to package defects. Any changes in your lines that result in defects can quickly lead to excessive scrap costs or eventually force you to run at slower speeds in order to maintain quality standards. Implementing real-time SPC can help answer critical quality and process performance questions. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…
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Access Business Group ACS Industries Actaris US Gas ADAC Automotive Alcan Packaging Almond Products Amway Arkwright Atlantis Industries Corporation Ayanna Plastics & Engineering Barrette-Chapais Ltd Be Green Packaging Bullard Cameco Fuel Manufacturing Canplas Industries, Ltd. Catalina Graphic Films Chemical Resources Cubic Tech Corp. DAP Products Evanite Fiber Corporation Envases Group Ferriot Fletcher-Terry GAF GE Thermometrics GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Ca Graniterock Co. Graphic Packaging HARBEC Inc. Havpak International |
Hayward Pool Products Howmet Corporation ISO Poly Films KW Container Materion Advanced Chemicals Inc Midwest Container National Packaging Services Oxford Instruments Pacific Coast Companies Plaskolite Pliant Plastics PPG Industries Research Electro-Optic Revere Plastics Systems RUAG Ammotec USA Ryt-Way Industries Saint Gobain SCA Personal Care Shanghai Quenfeng Simpson Strong Tie Co. Spectrum Corporation TecStar Mfg. Company Tessy Plastcs Texel Tianjin Custom Wood Processing Co. Veyance Technologies Waters Technologies Ireland Ltd. Web Industries Atlanta Westlake Chemical |
Semiconductor and Electronics
Several unique challenges face semiconductor and electronics manufacturers. Advanced complexity, continuously evolving fabrication, and accelerated schedules characterize the industry. A real-time SPC solution that fits into a high mix environment and can handle large volumes of data from metrology tools and test equipment capabilities is required. Read more about this industry’s use of WinSPC…
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Aeroflex Agilent Technologies Crane Electronics Diodes FabTech EEMS Suzhou Co. ESI – Electro-Scientific Industry Global Communication Semi. H&T Battery IMMI ISI U.S. Jabil Circuit Kester Lumentum Maxwell Technologies Mexter MSC Sdn. Bhd. |
Microfabrica MIT Lincoln Laboratory NEXTracker Omega Precision Corp Photronics PNY Technologies Rubicon Technology Suniva Teledyne Microwave Solutions Toppan Chunghwa Electronics United Test and Assembly Centre Vectron International Vesuvius Viking InterWorks Voltronics Corporation |
WinSPC
WinSPC is software to help manufacturers optimize their processes, the end goal of which is the ultimate goal of all manufacturers–the highest quality products for the lowest possible cost. Firmly rooted in the science of SPC, WinSPC facilitates real-time statistical process control, in-depth analysis for process improvement, reporting to meet a diverse range of information needs, and automated compliance with regulatory requirements.
…many manufacturers believe that they understand their performance until confronted with real data.
Helu & Hedberg, NIST
It’s easy to implement, easy to learn, and, perhaps most importantly, very easy to administer–with many tasks being able to be done in a single mouseclick.
WinSPC is installed on shop-floor computers where it is ideally positioned to capture data from virtually any source–serial devices, text files, Excel files, machines, gauges, enterprise databases and systems, and keyboards. As data is
captured, it is immediately displayed, allowing shop-floor personnel to monitor processes in real-time. Simultaneously, the data is tested against SPC rules and process-specific requirements. When one or more of these is violated, alarms are instantly triggered–alarms in the form of on-screen messages, audible sirens, priority e-mails, flashing indicators, or a number of other configurable actions. The real-time control these capabilities bring about can add millions to a company’s bottom line. Additional information is available on our Capture Data and Monitoring and Alarming pages as well as in the Capturing Data and Generating Alarms or Monitoring and Analyzing with Dashboards videos.
Additionally, WinSPC offers analysis capabilities that enable Quality teams to go beyond just controlling processes into new levels of process improvement. Engineers can search, filter, drill-down, and sort until they’ve isolated the data that needs to be investigated. They can, in a couple of mouseclicks, subject an operation’s historical data to a battery of statistical studies. They can even setup WinSPC to constantly be on the lookout for risks specific to their zones of responsibility. The tools WinSPC gives analysts result in statistically sound actionable intelligence capable of improving processes to heights previously thought unattainable. For more information on WinSPC’s analysis capabilities see the Analysis and Reporting page or the Monitoring and Analyzing with Dashboards video.
As for reporting, manufacturers have many information needs–needs of executives, engineers, suppliers, customers, upstream and downstream operations, and supervisors. WinSPC’s out-of-the-box report templates, which number over 90, cover all the key areas: Quality, production, cost, and more. Each is professionally formatted and can generate a report with just a few clicks of the mouse. The knowledge shared through WinSPC reports makes for a team that is united and focused on common goals.
For more details on this topic, see the Analysis and Reporting page or watch the Generating Reports video.
To get an overview on how WinSPC automates regulatory compliance for companies in regulated industries, see the Achieve Regulatory Compliance page.
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Recommendations for Collecting, Curating, and Re-Using Manufacturing Data – NIST