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The Philosophy of SPC
The Elevator Pitch! Traditional Product-oriented Quality Control programs emphasize defect detection, relying heavily on inspection, scrap, and rework. In other words, it pays workers to make defects and then to correct them. The goal of SPC is defect prevention, through improving the production system. How deep does the rabbit hole go? Most companies start out […]
Histogram Charting
What is a Histogram Chart? The Histogram is a bar chart displaying the pattern of variation resulting from the operation of the process. Mathematically Histograms are an approximate representation of the distribution of numerical data. Learn more… Interpretation: Four key aspects can easily be seen from this graphical representation of the data. Characteristics like, peaks and […]
Factory Systems Data Schema
When a datapoint is collected by FSWorks, it is tagged or categorized by default with a hierarchy of tags, based on our data schema. Those tags include the following fields: Plant level Department Network Workstation Address A plant can have any number of Departments. Each Department can then have up to 99 Networks and each […]
Factory Systems Data Storage Estimates
Data Type Data Use Estimate in bytes SPC Variable Measurement Record 60 SPC Attribute Record 60 Event Record 60 Productivity Machine Output Record 60 Productivity Status Output Record 60 FSTrack Step Record 170 Data records are collected locally and then copied to the server. Once successfully transferred to the server, a data record is kept […]