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Quality on the Web

NWA Quality Analyst is well established as the world's most widely used quality analysis software for the PC, with thousands of users around the world. Now a major new version, available from Adept Scientific plc, takes the technology even further. NWA Quality Analyst WebServer Edition is the first true web version of any statistical process control (SPC) software.

Up to now, SPC software could send data over the Web in view-only form. Now with NWA Quality Analyst WebServer Edition, users across an organisation, including customers, can have dynamic access to quality analysis data via corporate intranets or extranets.

SQC/SPC charts created centrally can be sent to a Web Site in a variety of different formats. These include standard graphics image formats (JPEG, Bitmaps etc) for viewing with a standard Web Browser such as Microsoft Explorer or Netscape Navigator, and in NWA Quality Analyst's own format, which can be viewed, organised and printed using the Quality Analyst Graphics Viewer as well as with the full Quality Analyst software. These charts can be "static", which means that, once on the Web Site, the data remains there until updated. Alternatively, they can be "dynamic" - in other words, when a user requests a chart, it is generated directly from the most recent data. This means that "dynamic" charts on the Web Site are always current, so - unlike other SPC software - there is no danger of working with out-of-date information.

Licenced users of the full NWA Quality Analyst software have full access across the Web to the entire range of Quality Analyst SQC/SPC charts and other functions. So they can interrogate the data dynamically, and manipulate it within the software in the same way as data accessed directly.

The NWA Quality Analyst Graphics Viewer allows users to receive and view data in NWA Quality Analyst format. It offers functionality not available with a standard Web Browser: for example, users can accumulate several charts (more than 100 at a time) and format them into multichart page layouts for display and printing. This makes it easy for them to compare charts from multiple products, processes or locations. In addition, Graphics Viewer users can control the appearance of charts and, by clicking on data points, can view descriptive information (such as date/time, shift, lot number etc) associated with the data point. They can then save charts in a format that can be easily shared with other NWA Quality Analyst users.
 NWA Quality Analyst WebServer Edition is based on the latest NWA Quality Analyst 5.1, powerful and flexible SPC software that is Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 compatible across all its functions. Powerful new data editing functions, improved file handling, more reporting options, better graphics and text display and output, over 20 process capability indices and advanced DDE capability.

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NWA Quality Analyst Version 5.1 offers a very wide range of customisation options. Its built-in data editor supports user-defined calculated variables, sorting and many other file manipulation routines. It offers presentation quality graphics display and output, and gives the user full control over colours, fonts and chart aspect ratios. File loading and handling are fast, and data files can be as large as disk space allows. The new Run File Wizard enables the user to create batch files interactively, without programming, to automate the SPC/SQC analysis and reporting routines.

All standard variable and attribute control charts are included in NWA Quality Analyst, as well as many special purpose charts such as Weibull, Median/Individuals and EWMA. Short Run charting is available for all control charts and process capability reports. Default settings produce charts in the most commonly accepted formats, but any chart can be easily customised by the user. Reporting options include multiple variables across multiple files in a single report, and box plots that let you compare and analyse multiple parameters. A comprehensive range of statistical data analysis and reporting routine commonly used for SPC and SQC is included, all running seamlessly under Windows 3.1x or Windows 95. There are over 20 capability indices for process capability analysis. Pareto diagrams can be produced from the same data files as defect charts.

Advanced DDE capability makes it easy to link NWA Quality Analyst to popular Windows spreadsheet, word processing, database and data acquisition programs; the latter allows fully automated data collection. There is also an optional Open Database Connectivity module that lets users work directly with any ODBC-compliant data source. This makes it easy to develop fully integrated manufacturing and quality management systems without having to manipulate imported data files when accessing and analysing data.

NWA Quality Analyst 5.1 and NWA Quality Analyst WebServer Edition are supplied and supported by Adept Scientific plc, 6 Business Centre West, Avenue One, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 2HB; telephone (01462) 480055, fax (01462) 480213,
email info@adeptscience.co.uk.

                                 For further information see:
                                         NWA Quality Analyst 
 
                                                  Contacts: 
                     Product and Technical: Neil Chapman
                                    Editorial: Sandra Leigh

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