Increase Manufacturing Yield
WinSPC customers report they have been able to increase manufacturing yield by as much as
50 percent by incorporating real-time visibility, event-management, and analytics into their
manufacturing processes. WinSPC provides manufacturers with a simple software tool that makes it
easy for shop-floor operators to collect, measure, monitor, and control their processes in real-time.
By employing these SPC techniques, in an automated, real-time fashion, many of our customers also report
they are able to simultaneously:
- Increase product quality
- Improve production capacity
- Reduce product waste, scrap or give-away
- Enhance productivity
How One Manufacturer Increased Product Yield from 81 percent to 91 percent in 3 Months
A $3 Billion rubber manufacturer was experiencing an unacceptable level of first-pass defects at one of its manufacturing plants.
The plant produced a wide variety of bushings for several of the company’s automotive clients. The manufacturing process required that
engineers monitor and control over 200 active compound formulations. In an effort to improve first-pass yield metrics, the manufacturer
began a Six Sigma program that included real-time WinSPC.
The company soon discovered that critical process variations and a faulty measurement system were causing the high number of product defects.
The team used WinSPC to collect accurate product measurements and monitor real-time process variation. If a process went out-of-control,
WinSPC alerted plant management before defective parts were produced. As a result, the company increased first-pass yields from 81 percent
to over 91 percent.
How WinSPC Can Help You Improve Manufacturing Yield
- Correct process defects before they occur
- Control and monitor process variation in real time
- Immediately alert operators and managers when a process is trending out-of-control
- Supply operators with electronic instructions that enable immediate corrective action
- Perform advanced statistical analysis to identify root causes
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