This one-day interactive, "hands-on" workshop guides new users through Quality Monitor's basic and intermediate features. The workshop includes a design module to give participants the opportunity to reinforce their Quality Monitor skills by creating a complete project from start to finish.

NWA Training Seminar

Purpose

The goal of this workshop is to enable participants to become fluent in basic and intermediate features of NWA Quality Monitor. Participants will explore all the components of Quality Monitor and learn how to create user interfaces to collect data and to produce on-line statistical process control (SPC) charts. Additionally, participants will learn how to connect Quality Monitor to external databases and measurement devices.

Agenda

• Introduction 
  Workshop agenda, goals, and objectives. On-line and off-line uses for SPC/SQC.
• Overview 
  Key components of NWA Quality Monitor: Designer, Workstation, Settings, Help Editor, Menu Editor, and Device Configuration. File types, file structure, and database connectivity.
• Introduce Design Module Project 
  Review file-structure and file-types. Review project requirements: screen layout, data collection variables, and command and menu bars.
• Designer 
  Use Designer workspace, titles, and images to create the design module project main screen.
• Creating Input, Display, and Label Fields
  Create and configure Input and Display fields with alarms, specifications, drop-down menus, etc. Create list files for drop-down menus and help function files.
• Command and Menu Bars
  Design and create Command and Menu bars to improve user-friendliness.
• External Configuration (Devices/Databases)
  Set up a database connection from Quality Monitor to Microsoft Access* for data storage. Configure Quality Monitor to read data fed from an external measurement device (caliper).

Objectives

• Using Quality Monitor Designer, create a complete application that incorporates:
  • Keyboard entry input fields
  • Device input fields
  • Display fields involving calculations
  • Alarming: visual and audible
  • Drop-down menus
  • Help files
  • Charts (e.g., histogram, X-bar, range, individual)
• Learn how to enter data and display charts through Quality Monitor Workstation
• Use NWA Quality Analyst to connect to an ODBC compliant database
• Learn how to use Quality Monitor to update Quality Analyst data (.dat) files
• Learn how to create and use a device file to capture data from an external measurement device (Mitutoyu caliper)

Prerequisites

• Introductory statistical process control and intermediate computer skills.
• Hands-on experience using Quality Analyst.

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