Paperless Forms 2.0 – Digitizing your Test Data

 

Paperless Forms

  • Real-Time SPC on Test Data
  • Web Based Forms for Test Data Collection
  • Advance Reporting Capabilities
  • Dashboard views of SPC Trends from anywhere in the World

Recall and Return events on Medical Device and Aerospace products can have serious outcomes where the FDA, your customers or other authorities quickly want to understand and root cause failures. These events have caused the industry to create rules around Compliance and Traceability on the Test Data.

In many manufacturing environments today, much of the Test Data is still recorded in Paper based processes. Paper based Test Data potentially means inaccurate recording, manual processes to retrieve that data and difficulty in aggregating the data to get an overall view of Quality. IntraStage Paperless forms solution was created to solve the massive amounts of Paper based Test Data that is currently being taken in Manufacturing environments around the world and give additional advantages:

  • Quality engineers and inspectors are able to measure, manage, and report on quality activities as they happen, in real-time without straining resources.
  • Seamless communication between Design and the Manufacturing teams. This means that you can quickly investigate and resolve issues faster
  • Eliminate inaccurate spreadsheets, manual processes, and error-prone paper trails that come with hard-copy documentation.

Compliance & Traceability: Problems happen…be prepared for them

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  • Web Based Analytics to quickly root cause issues 
  • Full Traceability of all Test Data on Products 
  • FDA, Aerospace and other Test Data Compliance 

Recall and Return events on Medical Device, Aerospace, and other Electronic products can have serious outcomes where the FDA, your customers, or other authorities quickly want to understand and root cause failures of those products. Whether the investigation is done via “paper” or through manual manipulation of spreadsheets with Test Data, the process can be prone to error, tedious and slow. In today’s fast pace environment and customer’s expectations of quick fixes to serious problems…this is no longer a competitive way to respond.

The IntraStage Analytics and Business Intelligence software can help:

  • Providing compliance through having secure and permanent storage of all the Test Data
  • Being able to quickly perform analytics on the Test Data through web based applications
  • Providing full traceability on how the product was manufactured

 

The Missing “V” in Big Data for the Test and Measurement Industry

Missing “V” in Big Data for Test and Measurement Industry

Last week I wrote about Big Data and Test and Measurement Industry and how IntraStage can address the Big Data characteristics:

1. Variety

2. Volume

3. Velocity

4. Visibility

5. Value

6. Veracity 

The recent article in GIGAOM highlights Velocity as the big issue in Big Data:

http://gigaom.com/2013/12/21/big-data-and-the-missing-v/#

I argue that the missing V” is Veracity as 1 out of 3 executives don’t trust the data suppliers provide – or in some case hide and don’t even provide.

How can IntraStage solution help?

1-    Machine-to-Machine communication:  IntraStage is seamlessly integrated with your automated test equipment i.e., National Instruments LabView or TestStand as well as your Agilent and/or Teradyne/Genrad equipment.  In this case data is automatically collected and sent to the IntraStage database for storage and further analysis.

2-    Paperless Forms: This web-based system captures operator’s manual data such as visual inspection, Repair and Failure Analysis.  It then checks for data validity and sends it to IntraStage database.

3-    Mobile Data Entry: Our partnership with Formyula also allows users to capture manual data seamlessly on a mobile device (iPad and iPhone) and upload it to the IntraStage powerful analysis tool.

Getting accurate, timely and complete data (both pass as well as failures) from suppliers is a must-have.  It is well known that numbers don’t lie but sometimes liars do numbers!

IntraStage software is a Big data analytics for T&M.  It can collect data from various T&M equipment and disparate locations.  It then aggregates, synchronizes and retain large amount of data.  It finally converts this data to actionable information via reports, charts and alerts.

IntraStage software delivers a 360 degree view of quality, turning any test data into actionable information, allowing our customers to improve product quality, avoid recalls, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.

Big Data and Test and Measurement Industry

The Test and Measurement Industry (T&M) can benefit immensely from “Big Data” analytics.  Some estimates of industry growth predict that Big Data spending will reach $114 Billion in 2018.

Big data analytics is the process of examining large amounts of data created by T&M equipment to uncover hidden patterns, identify previously unknown correlations and provide other useful information. Such information can accelerate failure analysis, provide competitive advantages over rival organizations and result in business benefits-such as more effective manufacturing and increased revenue.

Big Data is characterized as 6 Vs:

  1. Variety: T&M generates data in many formats (including but not limited to binary, Excel, CSV, XML, Arrays, images, etc).  According to Gartner research, 50% of enterprises cite data variety, not data volume, as the primary driver of Big Data adoption.

  1. Volume: T&M creates huge volumes of data from its equipment.  It is not unusual to see a tester generates over 1 Terabyte of data per day.

  1. Velocity: With the widespread availability of faster, relatively inexpensive processors, testers are now generating data much faster than before.  Furthermore, an expanded use of sensors has accelerated interactions with T&M equipment.

  1. Visibility:  A large amount of data is created by T&M, but is it visible to the entire enterprise and will it provide access to those in need of deriving actionable information from the data?

  1. Value: T&M creates valuable data, although aggregation and synchronization continues to be a challenge.

  1. Veracity: 1 out of 3 executives surveyed mentioned that they don’t trust the data they have.  We all know about “garbage in, garbage out.” How can organizations extract data from T&M equipment without humans “massaging it” in order to generate valid data?

 

IntraStage software delivers a 360 degree view of quality, turning any test data into actionable information, allowing our customers to improve product quality, avoid recalls, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.

IntraStage software is a Big Data analytics for T&M.  It can collect data from various T&M equipment and disparate locations.  It then aggregates, synchronizes and retains large amount of data.  Finally, it converts this data to actionable information via reports, charts and alerts.