Graphical Designer

Visual tool for creating full screen user interface designs.

Device Configuration

Measurement device configuration and communications diagnostics

Help Editor

Create context-sensitive help and SOPs.

NWA Quality Monitor provides SQC charts for all types of measurements—whether variable or attribute—in one package. The software offers the same chart-generating capabilities as our award-winning NWA Quality Analyst, producing all standard SQC/SPC charts and reports.

Variable Control Charts

Attribute Control Charts

• Percent Defective (p)
• Number Defective (np)
• Defects (c)
• Defects per Unit (u)

Short Run Analysis (for all charts)

Pareto Analysis

Process Capability Analysis

Select one of eight distribution types:

• Normal
• Skewness and Kurtosis Adjusted (Johnson)
• Two Parameter Log normal
• Three Parameter Log normal
• Truncated Normal
• Folded Normal
• Weibull
• Rayleigh

User Interface Components

User Interface can be composed of any number and combination of components

• Input Box
• Key entry
• Measurement device input
• Display Box
• Calculations
• Informational data
• Tabulate Box - simplifies defect category entry
• Combo Box - drop-down selection list
• Input Prompt - specific to each Input Box
• Label Text - full font and colour control
• Picture - supports BMP, GIF, JPG, and PNG formats
• Command Bar - dockable groups of command buttons
• Pop-up Menu - cascading groups of command buttons
• Action Button - individual command button
• Alarm Indicators - alarms linked to each input and display box
• Alarm List - displays current alarms

Data Input Options

Input source and management features

• Source
• Keyboard entry
• Read from measurement device
• Read from barcode
• Calculation result from defined formula
• Constant value
• Incrementing or sequence count
• Default to previous value
• System date - system clock
• System time - system clock
• Upper and Lower Bound limits
• Allow/Prevent modification of existing data
• Input Mask for key, device, and calculation input
• Field-specific prompt text
• Field-specific help reference

User Commands

Command Bar, Pop-up Menu, and Action Button options

• Command bars dock to any margin
• Pop-up menus cascade to 10 levels
• Button text includes full font and color control
• Button definition includes short-cut (function) keys
• Command Actions
• Display Chart - display SPC charts
• Print Chart - print SPC charts
• Help - display field-specific help
• Alarms - display alarm lists
• Run - start Quality Analyst automation script
• Send - send pre-defined commands to devices
• Launch - start other Windows applications
• Archive - manually start data archive

Help System

Complete SOP support on the plant floor

• Context sensitive help for each input field
• Full font and colour control
• Embedded graphics and pictures
• Includes built-in Help file editor
• Reads RTF file format from word processors and editors

Alarm System

Visual and audible alarming on specifications and SPC limits

• Alarm Types
• Specifications
• SPC Limits - control and warning
• Fixed Limits
• Alarm Indicators
• Separate indicators for each alarm type
• Specific to each Input and Display field
• Alarm Lists
• Fully definable text for each alarm type
• Pop-up or continuous display
• Includes complete alarm history for each data record
• Alarm actions
• Add message to alarm list
• System beep
• Assign text comment to data field

Device Interface

Real-time data collection from measurement devices

• Interfaces through standard RS-232 (serial) ports
• Simple point-and-click device definition
• Interfaces with common measurement devices
• Scales
• Gages
• Multiplexers
• Special Purpose
• Includes extensive library of predefined devices
• Device configuration and troubleshooting tool
• Troubleshoot communications problems
• Test input devices

Data Storage & Connectivity

• Uses NWA Quality Analyst Data Sets
• Allows up to 200 characteristics per Data Set
• Includes any combination of variable, attribute, or descriptive data
• Automatically writes to ODBC-compliant databases; e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, etc.

Configuration and Licensing

• NWA Quality Analyst required for Data Set definition and SPC chart configuration
• NWA Quality Monitor Designer (screen design, device configuration, help) to configure plant-floor workstations
• NWA Quality Monitor Runtime installs on each plant-floor workstation

System Requirements

• Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, NT4
• Any PC-based LAN (NT, Novell, etc.)

Recommended minimum systems:

• Quality Monitor Designer:
  266 MHz Pentium,
  32 MB RAM
• Quality Monitor Plant-floor Workstations:
  120 MHz Pentium,
  16 MB RAM
  Note: Existing 486 and slower Pentium systems may be used for plant-floor workstations, depending on size and complexity of data input screens.

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