Supply-Chain Quality Management

Supply-Chain Quality Management

Modern manufacturers employ extended networks of multiple facilities and contract manufacturers to produce everything from raw materials to finished product. For these supply chains to work dependably, each step must know the quality of the materials it receives.

The NWA SPC software suite provides comprehensive enterprise SPC capability and enables timely, accurate, and cost effective supply chain quality reporting.

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• Supply Chain Quality Management

NWA Supply-Chain Quality Solutions

NWA software plays a major role in Supply Chain Quality Management in three ways:

1. Supply Chain Quality Management requires accurate, relevant, timely, and complete data

Vendor certification and supply chain quality management require accurate process data and timely, accurate analysis from the process. The NWA software suite provides complete SPC analysis for data from control systems, laboratory analysis, and plant floor data collection.

NWA Quality Monitor^® increases the accuracy and efficiency of plant-floor data collection while delivering real-time SPC analysis and alarming. Plants can standardize routine quality-related data collection from key entry and devices such as scales, gages, barcode scanners, and automated test equipment.

2. Supply Chain success requires the Supplier to actively manage their process to provide acceptable product to the customer.

NWA Quality Analyst^® SPC charting and analysis software combines ease-of-use, database connectivity, and comprehensive analytical capability to make it the SPC tool of choice for identifying and reducing the causes of variation in manufacturing processes.

3. Provide easy to deliver, usable quality reporting.

NWA Quality Analyst charts and reports can be easily integrated with documents to report process stability and capability to both vendor management and customers. Quality Analyst automation simplifies reporting set-up and maintenance.

NWA Quality Analyst Web Server^® provides web based SPC reporting within the enterprise and across the supply chain. Web Server delivers SPC vendor reporting.

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