Press Release:
February 25, 2008
Northwest Analytical Partners with OSIsoft to Offer Enterprise-wide Manufacturing Analytics to Global Customer Base
Portland, OR—Northwest Analytical, Inc. (NWA), as the leading provider of SPC (Statistical Process Control) and Manufacturing Analytics, has finalized an ISV (independent software vendor) agreement with OSIsoft to provide statistics-based analytics for the PI System, an industry standard enterprise historian. The NWA software will be used to analyze, contextualize, and visualize real-time PI data. This agreement is driven by opportunities with joint OSIsoft-NWA customers that make up OSIsoft’s 11,000 customer base and NWA’s 5,000 corporate customers.
NWA will supply PI users with both smart and thin client SPC-based analytics to enable real-time process variation monitoring on the plant floor and off-line analysis for continuous process improvement at the enterprise level.
The OSIsoft agreement is an important part of NWA’s strategic program to enable process-based analytics capability throughout a manufacturing organization. This is fundamental to the execution of enterprise-wide Manufacturing Analytics as defined in the NWA white paper, "21st Century Process Management Using SPC Based Manufacturing Analytics."
About OSIsoft
OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com) delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise historians, as the core of its real-time infrastructure platform. A global base of more than 11,000 installations across manufacturing, energy, utilities, life sciences and other process industries relies upon the OSIsoft PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational health in order to manage assets, mitigate risks, and identify new market opportunities.
Founded in 1980, OSIsoft, Inc. is headquartered in San Leandro, Calif., with operations worldwide and is privately held.
About Northwest Analytical
Northwest Analytical (www.nwasoft.com) is the world’s leading provider of SPC and Manufacturing Analytics software, with more than 50,000 licenses shipped to over 5,000 companies. NWA is the SPC standard for global corporations such as Air Products, Chevron, Crown Cork & Seal, Dow, Huhtamaki, Praxair, Shell and Unilever. NWA software is recognized for its power, ease-of-use and its simple, tight integration with other manufacturing systems. The NWA software Suite includes products such as NWA Quality Analyst®, NWA Quality Analyst WebServer®, NWA Quality Monitor®, NWA Quality Information Server™, NWA SPCx®, and NWA QAx® for manufacturing analytics, plant-floor quality data collection and monitoring, SPC charting, enterprise reporting, and real-time, embedded SPC.
For further information, contact:
Jeffery Cawley, VP Market Development
Northwest Analytical, Inc.
jcawley@nwasoft.com
888-692-7638 or 503-224-7727
www.nwasoft.com
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