Intuitive’s SPC module provides real-time Statistical Process Control at all inspection points throughout the Intuitive ERP system, including work-in-process, purchasing, and material review and return.
This module completes the Intuitive ERP quality cycle with a dynamic tool that can capture and analyze high-level data using statistical techniques to help you maintain and improve your company’s process capabilities. Intuitive SPC delivers several enterprise-wide benefits, including:
- Reduction of scrap, material waste, and returned goods
- Improved manufacturing productivity
- Satisfaction of contract-imposed SPC requirements
- Achievement of detailed traceability and audit trails to help attain ISO 9000 and/or QS-9000 requirements
- Compression of timeframe to launch new products
- Increased customer satisfaction as product quality improves
- Increased corporate profitability as quality improvements find the bottom line
More than just a data entry and charting tool, Intuitive’s SPC module is a complete real-time system that combines data collection, charting, monitoring, analysis, communication, and reporting all in a single screen. The Intuitive SPC module includes advanced SPC features, such as:
- True real-time monitoring and charting
- Variable, attribute, and Pareto capabilities within a single file
- Completely customizable scaling, point sizing, and viewing options
- Gage R&R with scheduling feature
Data Collection
With Intuitive SPC, you can create inspection files, enter data, display charts, and generate inspection reports in seconds. Charts automatically update as inspection data is entered, while color-coded status flags visually alert inspectors of changing specifications or control conditions. In addition, the following features provide for an extremely rich user interface and minimize data collection time:
- Hands-free data collection from gages, scales, CMMs, optical comparators, and bar code readers
- Multiple gage input
- Auto Notes for quick data entry, as well as custom notes fields for additional data entry when required
- Variable data input for single characteristic or for complete subgroups at a time
- Withholding of samples from control limit calculation
- Data Log for tracking changes and deletions of data for full traceability
Charts, Graphs & Spreadsheets
You can configure Intuitive SPC to display multiple charts or graphs on a single screen to accommodate personal preferences and corporate requirements. Hundreds of charts, graphs and spreadsheets are available, including:
- Variable charts (Xbar and R, Xbar and S, Median &R, X & Moving R)
- Run charts
- Vertical and Horizontal histograms with curve fittings
- Attribute charts (p, np, c, u, DPMO)
- Pareto, Composite Pareto, and Notes Pareto charts
- Six Sigma Capability for Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk with distribution curves
- Overlay charts
- 3 chart
- Nominals chart for short-run data
Data Analysis
Intuitive SPC provides superior flexibility and depth of data analysis. This functionality allows you to perform highly-refined queries on entire data sets and to customize the results of your inspection data in the way that is easiest to understand and most meaningful to your organization. Intuitive SPC includes the following analysis features:
- Non-normal data analysis utilizing Johnson and Lognormal distribution analysis modes
- Estimated or calculated sigma for control limit and process capability calculation
- Historical analysis and charting on the entire data set
- Control limit calculation on three ranges of data, depicted graphically on control charts
- Capability studies providing Calculated Capability (n or n-1) and Estimated Capability with or without calculated range
- Unilateral and bilateral specifications defined and charted
- Pareto analysis on attribute data with up to 100 categories per data table
- Decimal place definition
Reporting
Intuitive SPC provides complete flexibility in data layout and reporting. You may have up to eight charts/spreadsheets visible on the screen at any given time. Reports and spreadsheets are Web-enabled so that data may be shared quickly and easily throughout the entire organization. Comprehensive traceability reporting is included to assist you with ISO 9000 and QS-9000 audit trail reporting. You may also utilize a queue function that allows you to print a range of pre-selected charts or spreadsheets at one time.
