Portland, OR—Northwest Analytical, Inc. (NWA), the leading provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, today announced availability of NWA Quality Monitor Supervisor™ 1.3. Quality Monitor Supervisor gives manufacturing plants and laboratories the capability to remotely monitor the performance of multiple plant-floor data collection workstations from a central PC. It provides a consolidated view of plant-floor activity with alarming and on-demand charts that enable manufacturing organizations the near real-time monitoring necessary to proactively manage manufacturing processes and prevent problems before they result in scrap, waste and declines in product quality.

NWA Quality Monitor Supervisor 1.3 delivers enhanced scalability and flexibility in creating customized process monitoring status display screens for use both on and off the plant floor. This flexibility allows users to create status display screens that match their needs based on their number of workstations and monitoring preferences. This latest version has the scalability to remotely monitor for alarm conditions from an unlimited number of workstations in one consolidated view. For more information about Quality Monitor Supervisor 1.3, please visit www.nwasoft.com/qms.htm.

“Our customers know how critical it is to stay connected to the plant floor in order to effectively manage manufacturing costs and product quality. Quality Monitor Supervisor provides much greater visibility and more timely notification of potential problems before they become big problems.” said Louis Halvorsen, vice-president of product development at NWA. “This new version is also ideal for anyone who is responsible for the successful operation of multiple Quality Monitor workstations or needs to keep tabs on a large number of products.”

Part of a Complete Plant Floor Data Collection and Monitoring Solution

NWA Quality Monitor Supervisor integrates with NWA Quality Monitor^® and NWA Quality Analyst^® to create a solution for collecting and monitoring quality data that automates plant-floor data collection, alarms for potential problems in processes, delivers SPC charts and reports, and provides a consolidated view to simultaneously monitor multiple data collection workstations. NWA Quality Analyst delivers SPC charting that enables the graphical analysis of process performance so that better judgments can be made about the impact of process-improvement decisions, even when the user has only minimal training in statistical techniques. NWA Quality Monitor automates plant-floor quality data collection and standardizes data collection workflow procedures. NWA Quality Monitor Supervisor provides a single point from which to monitor the performance, alarming, and SPC charts of multiple production lines. For details about these products, call 888-692-7638 or visit www.nwasoft.com/products.htm.

About Northwest Analytical

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 power, ease-of-use and its simple, tight integration with other manufacturing systems. The NWA SPC software suite includes products for QA/QC analytics, plant floor quality data collection and monitoring, charting, enterprise reporting, and real-time, embedded SPC. For more information, contact Northwest Analytical at info@nwasoft.com; call 888-692-7638 or 503-224-7727; or visit www.nwasoft.com.

* NWA Quality Analyst, NWA Quality Monitor, and NWA Quality Monitor Supervisor are trademarks or registered trademarks of Northwest Analytical. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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