What are the top quality control software solutions for streamlining your manufacturing processes?

With the advent of “Lean” practices and its impact on manufacturing, capturing and addressing waste elements in addition to non- conformances can result in improved first time quality and lower cost of production. Similarly industry 4.0 relies heavily on real time data , enabling conforming products and quality first time!

Yes, real time data is important in today's life, but that is not the end. There are many softwares available which are built in the machines which gives alarm if the data point goes out of range. The major issue which I observe in organizations is that, these process spec. settings are often altered unknowingly due to rotating manpower in shifts. In one of our suppliers supplying Safety Items of Tractor, had robust CNC machine with built in real time data monitoring. After regular person left the job, someone newly joined changed the process specs settings & Complete batch of the parts went out of specs., which was detected at customer end. So, these Real time monitoring softwares are Good, only when they are effective & compliant.

Automation of workflow tasks is a great value-add in quality software solutions. When the embedded business logic is highly-configurable and provides opportunities to transfer / update data from one souces in the solution to other functions in the system based on the step of the process flow or the specific instance's data, the automation can minimize the chance of gaps in the data and the resulting misunderstandings.

Having flexibly configured User Interfaces for capturing and analyzing data is important to allow the solutions to conform to best-practices and preferred terminology of each company's operating culture helps to accelerate adoption by the every-day users.

One of the largest risks to the accuracy of any enterprise software solution is having to manually transfer / transpose data from one system to another. Real-time integrations via webservices mitigate this high-impact risk.

This depends on the tolerance allowed in the design and the quality of the automatic machines, as well as the accuracy of operation in proportion to that tolerance allowed in the design of the product.

Having 20 years of experience in manufacturing as a customer and over 20 years in enterprise software, it is critical to make the data gathered easily accessible and flexibly reported. I regularly hear manufacturers say they struggle with having accurate, real-time data already captured and stored being difficult to find and analyze.