NWA

Quality Monitor - Workstation Software for Plant-Floor SPC data collection

• Complete SPC Charting and Analysis
• Automated Data Acquisition and Alarming
• Easy Interface to Bar Code and Measurement Devices
• Integrates with Manufacturing Data Systems
• Full Screen Visual Designer
• Wizard-based Configuration
• Reads From and Writes to External Databases

Overview
NWA Quality Monitor provides manufacturers with powerful, configurable software for plant-floor data collection and SPC charting in an off-the-shelf package. With NWA Quality Monitor, manufacturers have a single solution for plant-floor SPC.

Uniform Solution
NWA Quality Monitor answers your plant floor quality monitoring needs. Using just one software package, you can standardise workflow procedures, automate data collection, and provide real-time SPC feedback throughout your operation.

With NWA Quality Monitor, all plant floor workstations use the same core software with task-specific configurations for each application.

Operator interface and chart formats can be standardised. The context sensitive, on-line help system can support your standard operating procedures and simplify meeting quality assurance and vendor certification program requirements. The result is a uniform system with shared, common procedures throughout your facility or company.

Cost-Effective
NWA Quality Monitor is cost-effective in applications ranging from a single-user workstation to integrating with plant wide information systems.

Inexpensive to implement and support, it can be installed and configured by you and your existing staff. NWA Quality Monitor virtually eliminates manual recording, transcribing, and charting of data, freeing your quality-control staff for more productive work.

Because NWA Quality Monitor collects data from all standard measurement and interface devices, you avoid the costly duplication of training, management, and support procedures that result from using different software for each device.

Getting Started
As an off-the-shelf package, NWA Quality Monitor can easily be installed and configured by you and your existing staff. Your starting point is NWA Quality Monitor Designer, which combines a full-screen visual designer with wizard-based set-up tools to provide a configuration environment that is both easy to use and capable of meeting the most demanding data collection requirements.

You build data entry screens exactly how you want them to look, using a familiar drag-and-drop, point-and-click interface. You can select from a variety of pre-configured templates or create complete User Interface designs from scratch.

Combined with a copy of NWA Quality Analyst to produce the SPC control charts you need to analyse data and identify areas for process improvement, this provides you with comprehensive solution for plant floor quality control. You can then add as many individual NWA Quality Monitor Workstation licences as you require.

Easy to Set Up
NWA Quality Monitor combines a full-screen visual designer with wizard-based setup tools to provide a configuration environment that is both easy to use and capable of meeting the most demanding data collection requirements.

Customised data entry screens are built using a familiar drag-and-drop, point-and-click interface. You can select from a variety of pre-configured templates or create complete User Interface designs from scratch.

Easy to Use
NWA Quality Monitor's flexible design capabilities allow you to match the user-interface to the requirements of the item being tested and the user’s capabilities. Data collection and analysis can be standardised to match your SOPs and customer requirements.

Features include:

• Fully definable full-screen user interface
• Point-and-click or function-key operation
• On-line context-sensitive help
• Built-in calculations and look-up tables
• Visual and audible alarms for out-of-specification and control conditions
• Automatic or one-click SPC charting
• Validity checking for keyboard and device input

Easy to Integrate

NWA Quality Monitor is designed to be the plant-floor test station component of your manufacturing or process information system.

Integration features include:

• Direct data connection to any ODBC-compliant database
• Local and distributed alarming
• Interfaces with the most popular MES, CIM, ERP, and LIMS systems
• Automatic recovery from network failure
• Easily shares data with NWA’s family suite of analysis and reporting products

Easy to Interface
Interfacing measurement devices to PCs can be one of the most difficult parts of setting up plant-floor data collection. NWA Quality Monitor comes with an extensive list of pre-configured device interfaces, including most electronic scales, gages, multiplexers, and a wide range of specialised devices.

Adding device input to an NWA Quality Monitor data entry screen is usually done with a few mouse clicks. In addition, device and port configuration tools provide for easy creation of new device interfaces and solving communication problems.

Find out more ...

NWA Quality Monitor, together with NWA Quality Analyst, can help you achieve continuous process improvement in your organisation, saving costs and improving quality - for more information, contact your local Adept Scientific office.