Software handles plant-floor data collection

Available now from Adept Scientific is version 2.2 of Quality Monitor, the powerful, configurable software for plant-floor data collection and SPC charting, from Northwest Analytical.

Available now from Adept Scientific is version 2.2 of Quality Monitor, the powerful, configurable software for plant-floor data collection and SPC charting, from Northwest Analytical.

NWA Quality Monitor provides manufacturers with powerful, configurable software for plant-floor data collection and SPC charting in an off-the-shelf package.

NWA Quality Monitor provides manufacturers with a single solution for plant-floor SPC; standardising workflow procedures, automating data collection and providing real-time SPC feedback throughout the operation.

The latest version of NWA Quality Monitor has a number of enhancements.

Quality Monitor now writes data from the current data set directly to an external ODBC-compliant database and can link directly to laboratory information management systems (LIMS), enabling users to analyse their data in the package that best suits their needs.

Quality Monitor writes to a single table, and in most cases will write to queries, views and procedures.

The software now includes the ability to create custom menus for launching data entry screens on workstations.

The new menu editor lets users create configurable, multi-level hierarchical menus organised to simplify selection of data entry screens.

This allows a single screen design to be used with multiple data sets (that have identical structure).

Quality Monitor now supports additional time and date calculation functions to return specific date- and time-related values.

Any or all data fields on a screen may be defined as "required".

During use, Quality Monitor will not let a user leave the current record until all required fields are entered.

There are three new.

The "Batchdb" example writes data to a Microsoft Access database after each record is entered.

The "Outfall" example writes "normalised" data to a Microsoft Access database after each record is entered.

The "HACCP" example is a data-entry screen that might be used by a food processor to collect HACCP data.

Finally, a new "when" function allows users to set the value of a variable based on the value of another variable.

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