Northwest Analytical Launches Food Industry Initiative

SPC leader adds industry focused sales, support, and services resources

Portland, OR—Northwest Analytical, Inc. (NWA), the leading provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, today announced an initiative to meet the growing needs in the food industry for advanced Statistical Process Control (SPC) products that provide manufacturers with analytic capabilities that help them to understand and improve their processes, resulting in increased yield and reduced costs.

“The food industry is faced with both regulatory and competitive pressures that make SPC especially important,” said Clifford Yee, CEO of Northwest Analytical. “We have a substantial installed base in the food industry and want to be able to work with both current and new customers to better understand and respond to their quality and process management needs.”

SPC is fundamental to understanding process capabilities and identifying improvement opportunities. Today’s need for manufacturing analytics goes beyond the analysis of quality data. It must incorporate critical information from the process and other points throughout the supply chain. Applying proven statistical techniques and role-based visualization enables operators and managers to understand their processes in a more predictive fashion and avoid risks or excess costs before they happen.

The Northwest Analytical Quality Suite of SPC products is designed to provide all levels of the organization with the information needed to address crucial concerns including HACCP to meet safety and regulatory requirements. These analytics also address critical process applications such as fill weight to reduce operating expenses.

Through this initiative, the company will apply dedicated sales, services, and support resources to understanding and meeting the specific SPC and manufacturing analytics needs of each customer. The company’s industry specialists and its network of system integrators will work with customers to identify their needs and apply a standards-based systems approach to integrating data from disparate manufacturing, laboratory, and enterprise systems, and establishing a flexible analytics framework that can grow and adapt as needs and environments change.

About Northwest Analytical

Northwest Analytical (NWA) is the world's 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 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, SPC charting, enterprise reporting, and real-time, embedded SPC. For more information, please visit www.nwasoft.com or call (888) 692-7638.