ProActive Process Improvement

Background:
In the years since Shewhart published his seminal book, The Economic Control of the Quality of Manufactured Products, there have been many applications both of his concepts and subsequently developed advanced concepts. These techniques, which have served a useful function in monitoring and improving quality, are referred to as Statistical Process Control (SPC). 
The widespread use of microcomputers has helped bring applications of these techniques directly to the factory floor. But, efforts to date have been primarily in the area of computerization for the individual tasks of SPC and Design of Experiments (DOE). Little emphasis has been placed on integration of these approaches into a system that would allow monitoring, analysis and adjustments of control variables to improve plant performance. Proactive Process Improvement provides complete integration of DOE and SPC to drive your process to higher levels of performance.
The Company:
Stochos was established in 1968 with the mission of providing leading edge computerized systems that focus on improving the quality of the manufacturing processes. Stochos has developed and sells SPC data analysis software Custom/QC (off-line SPC), SPC Direct (on-line SPC) and Quality Management Database Systems (QMDS). The QMDS provides for complete factory floor data collection, analysis, and reporting. SPC, Document Control, Closed Loop Corrective Action and Calibration Log are just a few of many components in this integrated system. The QMDS provides complete automation of the paperwork required for certification programs such as ISO9000.
Our new product, Proactive Process Improvement moves one step further by providing for interaction with the plant control system. Proactive Process Improvement is an integrated, on-line, dynamic analysis system that ensures improvement of the manufacturing process. 
What's Different:
The key ingredient in Proactive Process Improvement is its on-line ability to identify the important few controllable factors for achieving higher quality output, and to implement changes to these factors in a systematic fashion to improve plant performance. The major issue is the timely identification of the need to shift from one set of control factors to another due to the impact of uncontrolled factors.
Proactive Process Improvement will enable greater improvements in the performance of manufacturing operations than those experienced thus far. Such a system has the potential for greatly improving the competitive position of your firm as it faces ever-stronger competition in the global marketplace.
The Proactive Process Improvement package combines a Sun workstation with Solaris O/S, Informix SE and Stochos software to provide a robust solution to process performance tasks.