R&D and Manufacturing of mission-critical defense and energy products.
General Atomics approahed IntraStage with the need to analyze gigabytes of test data from ATEs producing LabVIEW and TestStand data outputs on the manufacturing floor to identify issues that affect manufacturing efficiency and product quality. Additionally they wanted to digitize paper-based manufacturing data capture to facilitate data analysis and improve process integrity. This required the ability to incorporate data from multiple manufacturing lines and systems.
Implementation of IntraStage BlackBelt on manufacturing line to aggregate and analyze manufacturing data.
Implementation of paperless forms to gather parametric performance data and provide real-time feedback.
Implementation of out of the box and customized auto-generated ATP report required by end-use customer.
Quickly identified out-of-specification parts (cycle time from months to minutes).
Real-time feedback to operators on product performance and characteristics.
Visibility into performance along multiple product lines.
Lack of visibility into failure reasons and yield issues. Lack of tracking process anomalies which impact the overall manufacturing throughput.
Lack of characterization on performance issues.
No way to be proactive on line-stopping issues and problems. Ability to monitor critical KPI’s in real-time with Alerting and enterprise level visibility.
As a high-volume manufacturer with a dedication to higher quality and lower customer returns, Calix needed a way to track and control the RMA process.
RMA data for each customer was tied directly to customer satisfaction and Calix profitability.
Needed to replace two existing, incompletely integrated RMA/FRACAS commercial, off the shelf software system and processes in a very tight (less than one month) timeframe.
