Kettle Foods maintained the quality of the artisan potato chip and scaled up from a small-scale craft operation to high-volume production.
The National Titanium Dioxide Company Ltd (Cristal) has been manufacturing titanium dioxide (TiO2) using imported rutile ore at its ultra-modern Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah plant in Saudi Arabia since 1991. National markets its products under the well-known Cristal brand.
A manufacturer of advanced composite products adopted NWA Quality Monitor from Northwest Analytical to help meet demanding aerospace industry quality standards. Now the software is delivering benefits to many other aspects of the Company’s business.
“What we really liked about Quality Monitor was the way we could use templates to replicate our paper travellers on screen. That way our production people could build on a familiar environment rather than having to learn an entirely new approach.”
Huhtamaki Americas, headquartered in De Soto, Kansas, operates seventeen manufacturing facilities in North and South America which produce paperboard, plastic, and molded fiber packaging for consumer and food products. The Coleman, MI Huhtamaki facility specializes in plastic thermoforming operations to produce disposable plastic tableware. Using SPC and continuous process improvement methods is the corporate standard process management method and NWA Quality software is the standard SPC software tool.
When quality and traceability were identified as key to customer satisfaction and process control, BAS Components turned to NWA software for data collection and SPC charting.
BAS Components, a UK manufacturer of engineering components with a history of success, has seen many changes through the decades, always keeping in touch with its markets, and constantly developing and improving its products.
The Gallo Glass plant in Modesto California is one of world’s largest bottle plants. Fourteen glass lines make more than 100 types of bottles in sizes and shapes ranging from 187 ml single serving bottles to 4 liter jugs. The plant is the sole supplier to the E & J Gallo Winery and produces over 2 million bottles a day.
Rockwood Pigments is a primary manufacturer and processor of liquid, powder, and granulated forms of iron-oxide color pigments, natural and synthetic inorganic pigments, and automated pigment-handling systems used by manufacturers of coatings, colorants, concrete products, plastics, rubber, paper, vinyl, cosmetics, pet food, ink, toner, and other industrial uses.
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When glass-container company Saint-Gobain Containers (formerly Ball-Foster Glass Container) implemented a company-wide quality program across its 18 plants, the company standardized its quality data management with NWA Quality Analyst software from Northwest Analytical, Inc.
"Our quality has always been very good, but to be the best in this marketplace, we wanted even higher levels of efficiency, productivity and quality," says Mike Puhl, corporate senior process engineer. "Standardizing on NWA QA has created efficiencies and easy comparisons."
