Manufacturing

Analytical solutions for manufacturing information systems

Manufacturing is demanding work. You have to manage complex supply chains, meet tight deadlines and stay compliant with a wide range of regulations. You work to keep costs under control by reducing rework and returns and by streamlining everything from R&D through production. At the same time you have to keep quality high, or you risk losing customers to a growing field of global competitors promising better results.

That is why you need fast, straightforward analytics connected to your data repositories, so you can run it continuously and keep improving your processes. Statistica gives you all the analytics and automation you need in a single software platform. With real-time monitoring and shop-floor alerting, a comprehensive toolset for engineers, and intelligent reporting for management, Statistica puts you ahead of the competition by streamlining processes, improving product quality and safety, and cutting costs. Statistica also offers customization to your specific needs and strong security. It provides workflows and dashboards tailored to the roles and responsibilities of each person in your organization.

Root cause analysis, process optimization, monitoring and prediction

Statistica lets you quickly identify the key process factors that have the greatest impact on product quality and drive scrap and rework. That means you can focus monitoring and control where it delivers the most value. What-if scenarios in predictive models reveal how process parameters interact, so you can set the optimal ranges for critical variables and put in place process monitoring that is accurate and reliable.

Statistica makes it easy to create, test and deploy monitoring rules across a wide range of areas, for example:

• Suppliers – configure materials, parts and specifications for individual suppliers and let suppliers upload data so you can monitor, aggregate and centralize it.
• Maintenance – predict impending machine failures and prioritize maintenance accordingly.
• Quality improvement – integrate Statistica into formal quality control and Six Sigma programs.
• Warranty repairs – set parameters and deploy repair rules to reduce warranty repair costs.
• Regulatory compliance – ensure compliance with ICH guidelines and FDA regulations using customizable monitoring tools (such as Stability and Shelf-Life Analysis) and enterprise-wide role-based security.

The Monitoring and Alerting Server (MAS) tracks hundreds to thousands of critical parameters and proactively alerts predefined recipients to emerging problems.

Features

KPI dashboards

Statistica lets you configure customized web dashboards with key performance indicators (KPIs), delivering the right information straight to the people who need it, from the shop floor to management. Users can drill into performance metrics, track rework and scrap data, Cpk/Ppk indices, Pareto charts of defects and more.

Defect detection and reporting

Multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) methods can detect anomalies (such as quality issues) in high-dimensional data that would otherwise stay hidden. Statistica can even send automatic alerts when a process is predicted to go out of control.

Product traceability

Manufacturing processes often involve a complex sequence of operations in which upstream and downstream processing, raw materials, media and machinery all interact. Statistica gives you visibility into the movement of materials and batches across each of these production stages, so you can build useful quality control charts and reports, perform root cause analysis and run other analyses.

Automated decision making

The built-in Decision Rules Builder makes it easy to create, test and deploy decision rules, enabling monitoring across different processes and product lines. This helps you quickly improve decision making and boost productivity and profitability. The Statistica customer portal lets you give external customers and internal stakeholders secure, role-based web access to reports as needed. This saves time and money, and it adds transparency to your manufacturing operations, helping you stand out from the competition.

Data entry and management

Statistica makes it easy to configure web-based data entry forms tailored to different scenarios. Data is stored in a standard relational database and is fully integrated with the analytical functions and statistics available in the Statistica platform.

Components

Statistica analytical solutions for manufacturing include the following components:

• Enterprise Server – provides departments and divisions across the company with analytics and business intelligence applications through centrally managed queries, analyses, and report and dashboard templates.
• Data Miner – offers tools for model building and deployment (publishing solutions) along with the ability to integrate with a database or data warehouse.
• Web Data Entry – enables easy configuration of data entry scenarios for individual core process operations, with integrated workflow/approval and analytics.
• Monitoring and Alerting Server (MAS)– automates continuous monitoring of hundreds to thousands of critical processes and product parameters and alerts predefined recipients to emerging problems in time.