NWA Quality Analyst: Top Quality
A new version of the market-leading SPC
software, NWA Quality Analyst, offers some
very real benefits to users in manufacturing
and laboratories.
It's been almost nine years since we
were able to announce a new version
of NWA Quality Analyst, the flagship
software from the newly rebranded
Northwest Analytics - the market leader in
Statistical Process Control (SPC).
NWA Quality Analyst has been at the
heart of many notable companies’ quality
departments since it was first released in
the early nineties and we regularly speak
to some of our 'long time' customers who
proudly recall using the initial DOS-based
version. The latest offering of Quality
Analyst 6.2 boasts both new functionality
and improved performance whilst also
remaining in sync with the latest
developments in Windows processors and
operating systems.
Strategically, NWA Quality Analyst 6.2
now offers IT Departments more flexibility
in terms of upgrading their hardware as it
fully supports 64-bit Windows as well as
being compatible with Windows 7.
Users of older versions will be pleased
to learn that existing files can be readily
updated and that the migration process is
likely to be entirely seamless.
However, unlike some recent updates to
other suppliers’ SPC software, the NWA
Quality Analyst user interface remains
much the same as its predecessor,
enabling existing users to continue with
their established work flow whilst also
enjoying the fusion of better performance
and extended analysis functions.
The most popular new feature is the
new Data Breakdown tool which enables
you to quickly generate control charts
split by descriptor e.g. Shift, Machine or
any other identifier. Previously the
production of multiple charts to show
changes in process performance over
changing shift patterns would have taken
a number of mouse clicks and plenty of
dataset filtering. Now it’s there at the
click of a button.
Customers who have discovered the
power of automating their analysis will be
pleased to find a new function for testing
Run files has been added, so it's easy to
check everything works without ever
leaving the wizard. There is also a direct
link to modify your Run files in Notepad
which is ideal for repeating common
charting procedures and applying them to
different variables or datasets. A new Run
file command will also let you name your
chart files with the current date and time,
which is useful for taking a snapshot of
key performance indicators and storing
them for future use.
In addition, Northwest Analytics has
also partnered with Infometrix to create a
fully integrated solution for multivariate
modelling and SPC charting. This
overcomes many of the barriers to the
adoption of multivariate process
monitoring and improvement techniques.
NWA Quality Analyst's optional
multivariate SPC module combines with
Infometrix Pirouette® to simplify the
data-collection, model-building and
deployment process for off-line and real-time applications.
Another module for NWA Stability
Analytics™ delivers the statistical
analysis, charting and reporting required
for routine product-lot stability studies
and shelf-life prediction as described in
the FDA/ICH guidelines. This module lets
life science users perform routine stability
analysis using NWA Quality Analyst,
making it the true standard for both
manufacturing-process and laboratory-method SPC.
Download the NWA Quality Analyst Product Guide, or visit the Quality Analyst home page.
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