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Enterprise-Wide Real-Time SPC Software Must Include Supplier Data

LNS Research Spotlight report that talks about requiring SPC supplier dataRegardless if you have one facility or are a global enterprise, Zontec’s Synergy SPC software product line has a product that meets the needs of your organization. According to the product selected each level of user; has their own unique view, access, privileges, charting and reporting capabilities in the system. Zontec also believes that to get a comprehensive, real-time view of your enterprise worldwide, you need the ability to monitor and to view SPC data from not only other locations but also suppliers as well.

In its Quality Management Survey, LNS Research found that companies who capture SPC supplier data outperform those that do not. “With a mean (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) OEE of 89% versus 76%, companies leverage statistical analysis software for acquiring and analyzing supplier quality data in real-time are outperforming those without the capacity.”

Here are some of their findings:

  • By monitoring supplier data, companies are working continuously to identify and resolve issues closer to their source
  • With the use of cloud-based Web portals, supplier partners in remote facilities can sync production performance to the enterprise system
  • Delivering benefits not only at a site level, many companies have taken the Web portals to have an organizational approach to SPC
  • Pure-play SPC software provides a quick and cost-effective means to deploy SPC across the enterprise worldwide and throughout the supplier network
  • Improving operational efficiencies, SPC can also benefit a variety of business performance metrics such as first pass yield, cost of quality, on-time and complete shipments, products in compliance, and others

“Synergy software gave us the tools to better measure and analyze the quality of the plating we were receiving using SPC data. This gave us the definitive objective measurements, in real-time, to improve quality from our suppliers. Being able to reliably collect data facilitates communication between MASS and its supplier base,” said Dan Heimann of MASS Precision.

 

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