Quality Analytics Server™

Real-time SPC for process monitoring and visualization

From the plant floor to the corporate office, NWA Quality Analytics Server™ delivers real-time process and operations intelligence to the entire organization. The NWA analytics engine integrates data from existing manufacturing databases to supply dashboards with role-specific decision support information.

The NWA QAS manufacturing intelligence solution delivers the right information to the right people at the right time to alert them – in real-time – when any part of the operation is not performing as expected. The result is immediate and effective decision making and process corrections that improve throughput, lower costs and increase profits. Organizations can change their process management and control procedures from reactive to predictive, identifying potential problems before they affect quality and costs.

NWA QAS Functionality

  • Integrates data from all databases including Process Historians, LIMS, Quality Systems and MES
  • Role-based dashboards display the status of Key Quality Indicators in real-time
  • User displays include visual alarms, exception reports, and SPC charts with one-click drill-down
  • Rapid deployment means NWA QAS can begin delivering real-time analytics within days

The NWA QAS Advantage

The NWA QAS manufacturing intelligence solution is cost effective and easy to implement and maintain. Dashboards can be operational throughout the company within days.  Additionally, this manufacturing intelligence solution can be easily expanded to keep pace with process management and improvement initiatives.

With its unmatched ability to integrate with any data source (Historians, LIMS, MES, ERP), NWA QAS requires no data duplication or additional databases. Data access is instant and the analytics are real time.

Like all NWA products, NWA QAS installation and maintenance places minimal demand on IT systems and staff, allowing responsibility for ongoing changes to reside where it should – with the users. NWA QAS is able to easily work with existing databases and leverage the data already being collected into easy to understand and act upon dashboards.

NWA QAS delivers manufacturing intelligence that works across the entire organization.

Choose Your Role

Control Room/Production Line
  • Displays status of Key Quality Indicators from multiple sources in real-time
  • Speeds batch or lot approval by closing the loop between line operators and test labs
  • Collects Assignable Cause & Corrective Action information at the source
Process Engineering
  • Provides supervisory oversight of multiple processes
  • Supports Six Sigma and Continuous Process Improvement initiatives
  • Identifies potential problems before they affect quality or costs
Laboratory
  • Instantly communicates test results to operators and process managers
  • Adds value by including  context and meaning with the data
  • Identifies and communicates problems with instruments and methods
Production and Operations Management
  • Delivers visual displays of Key Indicators for process reviews
  • Provides plant-wide overview of product quality and process efficiency
  • Generates alerts for compliance and specification failures
Corporate Management
  • Delivers analytics-based status reports for KPIs
  • Facilitates multi-facility reporting for best practices and benchmarking
  • Enhances communications with plant personnel in solving problems