Industries / Manufacturing

Engineering and Production Quality

Improve quality while containing costs

The price that companies pay for poor product quality is steep. From costly reworks and product recalls to a decline in customer satisfaction, eroding brand image and loss of shareholder confidence, the bottom line is that quality issues hurt profitability and can even threaten a company's existence. So it is no surprise that every company's goal is to produce high-quality products at the lowest possible costs.

" SAS has directly contributed an ROI of $14 million on Six Sigma projects and an additional $1.5 million on other projects. That's an impressive result in less than two years, and we have anticipated ways to gain even greater returns in the future."

—Ill-Chul Shin

Manager and "Master Black Belt" at POSCO's Six Sigma Academy

POSCO

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How SAS® Can Help 

SAS Quality Lifecycle Analysis provides manufacturers with a reporting, monitoring and alerting, and root-cause analysis solution. With SAS, you can:
  • Gain visibility into quality processes by accessing large volumes of data regardless of format or source, and then transforming, standardizing and cleansing the data to prepare it for analysis.
  • Monitor the health of your processes with large-scale, automatic parameter checking against predefined or custom business rules in batch or on demand.
  • Reduce process variability with state-of-the-art root cause analytics to weed out quality excursions, and unparalleled design of experiments.
  • Proactively address quality and performance issues with early warning analytics that alert you to potential failures and latent defects before they become costly problems and before they reach your customers.
  • Establish a closed-loop system for sustained quality by automating key processes and refining and integrating business rules for repeated use.
  • Align performance and quality strategies by sharing appropriate information with whoever needs it so you can close the gap between targets and performance.

How SAS® Is Different 

With SAS you get end-to-end capabilities for pulling data together, analyzing it and then making it available to those who need it throughout the organization. Unlike smaller niche vendors that cannot cope with growing data volumes and are unable to deliver the expected response times, the SAS solution is scalable to meet your evolving needs. Only SAS delivers:
  • State-of-the-art analytics and predictive modeling capabilities that help drive tighter controls and improved processes, resulting in reduced costs from decreased scrap expenses and rework rates.
  • Early-warning analytics that enable you to proactively address quality and performance issues. SAS monitors thousands of parameters continuously and sends automated alerts so you can take action to fix potential issues before they become costly problems.
  • Flexibility to handle practically any type of data your may have. SAS is also customizable, so you can incorporate additional data types as your organization may require.

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SAS® Quality Lifecycle Analysis

Through advanced analytic and reporting technologies, SAS Quality Lifecycle Analysis delivers a solution that provides manufacturers with a holistic view of quality across the enterprise. It combines data integration, automation and analytics to create the most unbiased insight into large-scale manufacturing processes, helping organizations improve quality while better containing costs.

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