March 2012

The Tide is High

By Rick Sloop
March 26th, 2012

My last blog, "Who’ll Stop the Rain," explained how collecting too much data creates problems with control charts. Attempting to monitor too many items can be overwhelming and results in the user overlooking the "true" key characteristics of a process.

Old McDonald had a farm

By Britt Reid
March 20th, 2012

Old McDonald had a farm…O-L-E D-B.  Not the words you had in mind?  It’s okay, by the end of this entry you might never go back to the original!

What Makes Super Descriptors So “Super,” Anyway?

By Eric Weisbrod
March 12th, 2012

When building InfinityQS projects and setting up data entry configurations, sometimes customers are in a quandary on whether they should use some of the pre-defined ProFicient "super descriptors" like Lot, Job, Shift and Serial Number.

"What are the advantages?"

"Should I save them for something special?"

Product Performance vs. Process Control

By Stacey Sanborn
March 3rd, 2012

Remember that early class or seminar you took on Statistical Process Control (SPC)? You know, the one that said if you can learn to understand and control the critical inputs of your process, the critical outputs would take care of themselves.