Striking a balance between external, customer-driven quality metrics and internal, efficiency-oriented ones is always a challenge every manufacturer confronts as they grow. How to design, manage, and improve key process is the foundation to deliver customer values and achieve organizational success.
As a leading metrology and manufacturing solution specialist, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence intends to give our customers the tools – and the confidence – to increase production speed and accelerate productivity while enhancing product quality. With the introduction of solution, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence helps customers unlock the potential of manufacturing quality data, improve quality transparency, traceability through manufacturing process.
One software to manage product quality and optimise resources
HxGN SMART Quality is an online quality data and resource management platform which utilize data from various measurement systems across multiple locations to provide a companywide view on quality. As one of Hexagon’s Smart Factory family of solutions, provide three major value streams that can help manufacturers utilise aggregated quality data to gain actionable intelligence and insight for process optimization:
- Process control through statistical means
Quality best practices dictate that instead of testing every finished product, industrial companies should control the manufacturing process to minimize variation. Use integrated Statistical Process Control (SPC) powered by Q-DAS, HxGN SMART Quality can identify unfavorable trends and alert quality staff near real-time before production goes out of specification.
- Improve equipment effectiveness
Equipment stability is the foundation for operation. HxGN SMART Quality features OEE-like functionality for all machines connected to HxGN SMART Quality so that manufacturers can assess and compare Overall Equipment Effectiveness using a standard metric. Offering insight into both availability and performance, it supports root cause analysis for investigating anomalies on an individual piece of equipment in line with total productive maintenance principles.
- Align resources and tasks in an automated way
offers an integrated workflow concept to accompany users step by step through defined and customer-specific processes to achieve the desired result. Through document and workflow management, smooths the path from design to final inspection, ensure measuring tasks are carried out in the proper way using the proper resources with high efficient.
Provide value to staff in a factory
From measurement engineer to quality manager, from manufacturing to executive management, provides effective tools to staff in a factory to better utilize the quality data:
Executive Management: Overview of the quality situation across the enterprise, including plant, machine, operator, and quality information, summarized in reports or by dashboard.
Quality Manager: plan and implement quality management system of the company, automatic verify and assign measuring task, integrated quality data together for real time analysis and monitoring for a quicker improvement cycle.
Measuring Staff: intuitive and easy to use interface for daily operation, automatic getting up-to date notification on measuring task and machine condition.
Operation Manager: understanding the manufacturing capability situation in real-time, getting notice once problems occur and have an intuitive, easy to use quality tool in the shop floor.
Productive Maintenance: reduce equipment breakdowns, increase asset utilization, and ensure a smooth productive operation.
Design / Engineering Staff: getting historical data and mining possibility for process improvement.
Gather insight through smart connected products, equipment, and process with advanced analytics, HxGN SMART Quality provides the unique combination of product quality and resource management in one single platform to help customers achieve a new optimum in quality management.
