Quality Information System™

Affordable quality automation from data collection to charts

NWA Quality Information System™ (NWA QIS) is the perfect choice to manage production, satisfy auditors, and meet customers’ quality-reporting requirements. And it can be brought online with limited staff time, budget, and IT resources. Whether you need to automate a single work cell or an entire plant, NWA QIS delivers a complete quality system from plant floor data collection to final reporting.

NWA QIS Functionality

  • Data Collection – Work stations support operators’ work flow and capture data from multiple sources including key entry, bar code and electronic instruments and measurement devices.
  • Data Management – based on MS SQL database.
  • Quality Analytics – Comprehensive SPC-based analytics and visualization software based on our leading SPC software solution, NWA Quality Analyst.
  • Real-time SPC Alarming – Full function alarming based on specifications, SPC rule violations and out of control conditions.
  • Reporting – Suite of preconfigured reports and charts plus any specialized reports can be configured with MS Reporting Services.

The NWA QIS Advantage

NWA QIS provides timely analytics-based reports and alerts to give your staff the information they need to make the right decision at the right time. NWA QIS combines built-in analytics and quality reports with industry-standard reporting tools to deliver reporting tailored to each customer’s needs.

NWA QIS delivers a best fit system that is scalable from a pilot to a plant-wide system. You can incrementally implement NWA QIS to best fit your timeline, project resources, and budget. It will easily share product, process, and quality information with other manufacturing systems such as MES, LIMS, ERP, and Historians.

NWA QIS has repeatedly been shown to be less expensive to install and maintain than competing systems. Not only will you reduce the labor and time needed to manage and improve your processes, you will make better and timelier decisions with higher-quality data.