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NWA SPC Update: October 2007
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NWA SPC Update is a newsletter from Northwest Analytical (NWA), the world's leading provider of statistical process control software. Here you will find the latest SPC news and solutions for manufacturers and laboratories.
Industry News
Northwest Analytical Opens Shanghai Office
NWA has opened its new office in Shanghai, PR China. This office extends the company’s marketing and support capabilities globally. Northwest Analytical is planning on staffing this office with sales, marketing and technical support to fully service its multinational customers and OEM partners, and to open new markets. The new office is located at:
Suite 47-A5, 47th Floor
Hong Kong New World Tower
300 Huaihai Zhong Road
Shanghai 200021, PRC
Tel: 8621 5116 2812
Fax: 8621 5116 2882
Huashan (Hans) Shi leads the NWA Shanghai office as China Country Manager. Shi has extensive experience in the process industries and manufacturing control systems. Shi was educated with a BS in Automation Control & Motor Drive and a MS in System Engineering.
"China is one of the world’s major manufacturing centers, and Shanghai is central to many process industries” says Cliff Yee, President and CEO of NWA. "We already have several global clients and business partners in China and we look forward to working with Shi to grow our client base there."
Huashan Shi can be reached at HShi@nwasoft.com .
NWA Quality Monitor 2.4 Released
NWA has released Version 2.4 of NWA Quality Monitor. Version 2.4 includes:
- Full compatibility with the NWA Quality Analyst 6.1 file formats.
- Additional data types such as database-standard date/time formats.
- Actions and functions can now be performed “on startup” and “on exit”.
- Combined "date time" data type that is commonly available with commercial databases, and new calculation functions that support it.
- Additional database connectivity capabilities that enable seamless integration with NWA Quality Information Server to deliver quality system solutions.
All users on maintenance will automatically receive the updated version.
NWA Quality Analyst Wins Scientific Computing Magazine Award
NWA was awarded the Readers’ Choice Gold Award for Statistical Analysis software. This represents the third Readers’ Choice award for an NWA product in the last four years.
Thank you, Scientific Computing readers.
CSols Integrates Quality Analyst into Links for LIMS
CSols is a Laboratory Systems Integrator providing the expertise, services and products required to integrate laboratory data systems and analytical instruments. Their widely used product, Links for LIMS, can automate all the data processing carried out by an analyst, saving time and removing transcription errors. Each system is configured to meet closely the requirements of the customer. On most sites, many instruments of different types are integrated with the Laboratory’s LIMS.
Now, NWA Quality Analyst can be included in such systems. This means that an analyst can review results for QC Standards (including viewing Control Charts) before reporting results to LIMS. This improves analytical quality and immediacy. Reported Sample data is passed to LIMS and QC data can be seamlessly stored in either the LIMS or a specific Links for LIMS database for further off-line analysis by Quality Analyst.
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Upcoming Product and SPC Training
Applied SPC with NWA Quality Analyst
December 4-5, 2007
Houston, TX
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Events and Publications
Worldwide Food Expo
October 24-27, 2007
NWA will exhibit in booth S6663. The NWA exhibit will feature a special screening of a new episode of the Feast or Famine television series which features the USDA AMS vendor certification, food safety and quality system for the National School Lunch Program ground beef purchase. NWA will exhibit solutions for food quality and safety management.
Rockwell Automation Fair
November 14-15, 2007
NWA will exhibit in booth 656 and Phil Schreiber, VP Sales & Marketing will present “Comprehensive SPC-Based Manufacturing Analytics” in the technical sessions. This presentation will define the application of SPC-based Manufacturing Analytics from Northwest Analytical to develop predictive systems and build knowledge bases to support effective decision making.
Modern control systems, plant floor data collection, and laboratories generate large volumes of process data. Unless this data is analyzed and usefully reported to all the staff involved in production and plant management, it will not be useful for operational management decision making. Actively using SPC and Manufacturing Analytics enables this data to be effectively used to manage the enterprise. Tightly coupled analytics will make control systems a core component of 21st century process and enterprise management systems.
An extended version of this presentation has been posted on the NWA web site as the whitepaper, “21st Century Process Management Using SPC Based Manufacturing Analytics” and is also published on the ControlGlobal.com web site.
NWA Article in Food Quality Magazine
Food Quality has published “Lower Risk, Boost Safety, Use vendor certification and continuous process improvement to manage your supply chain safety and quality.” The article is derived from Jeff Cawley’s presentation at the 2007 Food Safety Summit. The article describes how food processors can meet the challenges of maximizing food safety while reducing production costs by improving throughput, product yields, and process efficiencies with SPC based supply chain quality management.
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Current NWA Product Release Numbers
Users frequently ask us for the most current software release numbers so we publish them on our website.
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Northwest Analytical (NWA) is the leading provider of SPC software with more than 50,000 licenses shipped to over 5,000 companies. NWA software is recognized for its ease-of-use and ability to integrate with other software and systems. The NWA SPC software suite includes plant floor data collection and supervision, enterprise-wide charting and analysis, web-based reporting and embedded SPC.
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