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  • What's New in NWA Quality Analyst 6.3

    NWA Quality Analyst 6.3® incorporates twelve enhancements to the analytics and reporting capabilities. These result from the development of NWA Focus EMI® and enable Quality Analyst to deliver a richer Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) analytics and reporting feature set.

     

  • Control Limits vs. Specification Limits

    We often hear control limits and specification limits discussed as if they are interchangeable. But control limits and specification limits are completely different values and concepts. What is the relationship between control limits and specification limits? Usually there is no relationship whatsoever.

    Control limits are calculated from process data for a particular control chart. An X-bar chart and an Individual measurements chart will have different limits.

  • Quality Analyst Multivariate SPC

    Multivariate SPC Charting and Analysis with NWA MvSPC

  • Northwest Analytics Brochure

    Manufacturing-intelligence solutions for world-class manufacturers

    Northwest Analytics leads the industry in delivering manufacturing analytics that enables more effective plant process management and improvement for manufacturing enterprises and their supply chains. For over 25 years Northwest Analytics has delivered powerful, easy-to-use process analytics and manufacturing intelligence software with an emphasis on enterprise-wide integration, analysis and visibility.

  • Integrating HACCP and SPC

    Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point is a food safety management system designed to ensure the safe production and packaging of food. The HACCP process (Table 1) has both strengths and limitations. It provides a systematic and effective method to analyze a process, and identifies potential biological, chemical and physical hazards that can occur in food. In addition, HACCP requires the development of strategies to prevent the inclusion or reduction of these hazards to an acceptable level in the food.