"These sheets did not support effective data management and retrieval. It required too much time and effort to find the sheet with the lot number were looking for. Now with QIS [Quality Information System] we can look at more than finished goods data and actively analyse and manage the process."
Dale Gu, Technical ...
"... or batch process samples across several facilities, side-by-side, to validate that we are using the same processes and getting the same results everywhere [using NWA's Quality Analyst]. It shows them that we are doing ur due diligence and this has led to much shorter audits."
Panna Chaudhari, Fortitech
Find out why Fortitech, the leader in the development and manufacture of custom nutrient premix blends, use NWA Quality Analyst as its standard SPC charting, analysis and documentation tool.
"NWA QAx enabled us to seamlessly integrate SPC charting without changing the existing functionality of their system."
Christopher Lemp - MAP Quality Engineering
Kettle Foods has implemented SPC in the Salem plant with a combination of NWA Quality Monitor for data collection at the production line and NWA Quality Analyst for supervisory and management analytics and reporting. The direct process used includes incoming inspection of raw materials – potatoes, oil and seasonings – and ...
When one manufacturer of PCBs realised that a proportion of its finished boards were failing final quality inspection due to inconsistent solder height, it turned to NWA Quality Analyst’s Statistical Process Control (SPC) software to help out.
The canary’s untimely death in a mineshaft indicates a dangerous situation, much like HACCP alerts a plant manager of a potential hazard. How did Butterball Turkey Company apply this lesson [using NWA eHACCP software]?
Read how ISO 22000 and ISO 9001 are related and how together they define food safety and quality management systems. Systems such as NWA eHACCP are an important part of building and maintaining a compliant system in your plant.
How Kettle Foods maintained the quality of the artisan potato chip and stepped up from small scale craft operation to high volume production using NWA's Quality Analyst and Quality Monitor. Kettle Foods is taking the challenge to expand its presence in mainline supermarkets and to compete with the big mass ...
Using statistical process control (SPC) analysis in a program of continuous monitoring and improvement can help manufacturers optimise product fill weights, allowing them to minimise overfill and still comply with regulatory requirements. This paper describes the application of NWA Quality Analyst to fill weight situations in various industries. The examples ...
The most effective way to avoid product hazard is to control the process properly rather than relying on final product inspection. For example, a good HACCP program cannot depend on microbiological tests as the means to prevent a hazard because they are too slow to provide the real-time information needed ...
The majority of existing Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs were implemented a decade ago. These programs were generally designed as paper-based data collection and record-management systems. In the intervening years, the limitations of paper based systems have become painfully clear.
February 2009: Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts) has released its training dates for Northwest Analytical’s Quality Analyst which will be held in its purpose built training suite at their Letchworth premises.
The course will give delegates the knowledge and confidence to analyse data and customise graphs to produce relevant SPC information for ...
British Energy uses Quality Monitor, a Northwest Analytical statistical process control and data collection system, to standardised workflow processes to be built to match the needs of a specific facility, stores data from multiple workstations in a central database and provides live charting and analysis of quality data.
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British Energy saves money and improves the reliability and flexibility of its Chemistry condition monitoring system using Quality Monitor from Northwest Analytical (NWA) (Portland, Oregon).
British Energy has turned to Northwest Analytical (NWA) and Adept Scientific to improve the reliability and flexibility of its chemistry condition monitoring system.
“Before, we were using Excel spreadsheets.
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