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NWA Quality Analyst Product Tour
Product Tour Introduction
NWA Quality Analyst®
Product Tour
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NWA Quality Analyst® SPC Software
The award-winning NWA Quality Analyst is a powerful, yet easy-to-use
statistical process control (SPC) solution that integrates with your corporate
manufacturing information systems.
NWA Quality Analyst is the
data visualization and reporting
system for all your production
data.
World-class manufacturers use
it to:
• Meet customer requirements
• Improve processes
• Reduce waste and costs
• Comply with regulations
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Product Tour Agenda
Why Quality Analyst?
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Data Handling
Charting
Configurability
Database Connectivity
Workflow Automation
Benefits of NWA Quality Analyst®
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Data Handling
• Familiar spreadsheet-like
data display
• Data can be entered by
keyboard, cut-and-paste,
or direct connection to
virtually any database
• Data Sets contain up to 500
columns in any combination
of descriptions,
measurements,
and defect counts
• Data Sets contain up to
999,999 records
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Creating a Control Chart
Create control charts in just two clicks.
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Creating a Control Chart
Clear, easy-to-read SPC charts. Rule and control limit violations are
clearly indicated.
Control
Limit
Violation
Rule
Violation
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Creating a Control Chart
Drill down to view details, violations, and assignable cause/
corrective actions in callouts and detail windows.
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Creating a Histogram
Another click of the mouse produces a process capability histogram.
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Drag-and-Drop Page Layout
A series of charts and reports can be generated, then easily grouped on
a single page with the Group Layout dialog box.
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Drag-and-Drop Page Layout
Convenient grouping of charts and reports on the page allows for
easy comparisons, printing, or presentations.
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Exception Reporting
Instead of reviewing dozens of charts, use exception reports to look at just
those charts with exceptions such as rule violations. You can view the
supporting control chart with one click.
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Easy Chart Configuration
NWA Quality Analyst is highly configurable. Set any parameter with a few clicks
in easy-to-use tabbed dialog boxes.
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Analyze Data from External Databases
NWA Quality Analyst can read data from any ODBC-compliant data source.
This lets you read data from Historians, LIMS, MES, and corporate databases.
Database
MS SQL
Oracle
Access
Excel
DB2
InSQL
Other ODBC
DATA
CHART
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Point-and-Click Database Connectivity
Define database connections with easy-to-use forms. The connection definition
becomes part of the Data Set definition, so opening the Data Set automatically
launches the query and loads the data.
Defining a database
connection just takes a
few clicks.
1. Select an External
Database connection
2. Choose a table, view,
or query
3. Assign the database
fields to Quality Analyst
columns
4. Click OK
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Workflow Automation
Routine charting procedures can be easily automated with Run Files—
Quality Analyst’s automation script. Typical users can create these scripts with
the Run File Wizard; no programming experience is necessary.
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Workflow Automation
NWA Quality Analyst makes it easy to automate workflow:
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Run File scripts let you automate routine workflows
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Users can generate routine reports without being trained to run Quality Analyst
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Run Files can be launched from a desktop icon, or by another Windows
program
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Run Files can be set to prompt users for parameters such as data range or
lot code, or to complete a procedure without user interaction
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Database connection queries are automatically launched when a Data Set
is opened
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NWA Quality Analyst can automatically read and report on data in
any manufacturing database
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Workflow Automation
Produce charts with a single mouse-click by linking a desktop icon on the
workstation to a Run File.
Pin Weight SPC Report Shortcut
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Why choose NWA Quality Analyst?
Why have 5,000 manufacturers chosen Northwest Analytical to improve
processes, increase quality, and reduce costs?
It is the enterprise quality reporting solution that is:
• Easy to implement
• Easy to connect
• Easy to automate
• Easy to use
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For More Information
Ready to see for yourself how easy it is?
Get your free trial copy at:
www.nwasoft.com/trial.htm
Northwest Analytical, Inc.
Phone: 503-224-7727
Toll-free: 888-692-7638
Fax: 503-224-5236
[email protected]
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