The Wonderware System Platform is a unique technology that provides users with a single development environment for deploying anything from plant floor HMI, through SCADA, MES and finally ERP integration.  For the first time, users can start small and incrementally add functionality to a single system simply by extending their data model with objects that expose the functionality that is required at the time.  Objects simply snap into the single development environment to add functionality to the overall system.

The new Wonderware Inline Quality Quickstart is a set of preconfigured objects, graphics and web reports that enable System Platform users to expose real-time quality information to anyone that needs it.  Leveraging the development environment, historian, web portal and plant floor clients common to the System Platform, the Inline Quality Quickstart expands the value of any installation.

Inline Quality – A Definition
The Inline Quality process is about reducing product and process variation in real-time as products are being manufactured or processes are running. Unlike off-line product testing which usually requires lot samples that need to be tested in quality laboratories, Inline Quality measures product attributes (number of non-conformities) and/or variables using control charts in real time. This allows for the immediate detection of deviations and potential issues – forming the basis for corrective as well as preventive actions (CAPA).

The Inline Quality QuickStart delivers:

• A pre-built extension to the Wonderware System Platform

• ArchestrA® Objects for increased reusability and consistency in data collection and analysis functions as well as simplified configuration of the Wonderware real-time SPC engine - QI Analyst™8.0

• InTouch® SmartSymbols and a highly modular InTouch application focused on providing operators an intuitive inline quality monitoring tool

• An easy-to-use SPC data entry interface

• An easy-to-use product/process specification data entry interface

• Compatibility with other QuickStarts

• Enhanced system extensibility

• Added value to your supervisory system

Inline Quality delivers value to the following functions:

Operations and Management

• Managing product and process quality in real-time

• Capture quality root cause in real-time

Quality

• Measure critical control parameters and track deviations in real time

• Improve process capability by providing real-time quality control capabilities

• 6 Sigma framework for manufacturing

Maintenance and Engineering

• Support root cause analysis with time-series data analysis (process variables)

• Support equipment builders by providing process data

Supply Chain Management

• Reduce supply chain costs

• Support make-to-order manufacturing strategy

• Increase manufacturing responsiveness

• Reduce manufacturing cycle time

If you are interested in learning about how you can provide a single plant floor HMI/MES/Historian infrastructure in your facility that allows you to implement functionality a piece at a time in increments as small as makes sense for your plant and budget, please consider the Wonderware System Platform.  There is nothing like it available today.  Just let us prove it to you.

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