Stages on the quality journey – Stage 1: Guard…
A Data Head's look at the quality journey, or what quality data has in common with Jean Piaget, Laurence Kohlberg, and Ken Wilber.
Tip of the hat…
Pretzel tribute to Hertzler's GainSeeker SPC software customer Snyder's-Lance, maker of Snyder's of Hanover pretzels on National Pretzel Day, June 28.
Another GainSeeker® recommendation at LinkedIn…
"Have had a long relationship with GainSeeker Suite. Reliable, efficient, easy to use program with easy report generation. Has paid for itself many times over." John Campbell, Operations Manager at McCormick Foods
Send to PowerPoint…
In GainSeeker Version 8.2, "Send to PowerPoint" loads PowerPoint and pastes whatever you're sending into a new slide. In prior releases you could get there, but you had to send the chart to the clipboard, and then flip to PowerPoint and paste it into a slide. . . .
Normal Probability Plot…
The Normal Probability Plot chart gives you an easy-to-view answer to the question: "Can we meet our target?" You can get to this information by displaying specifications on the chart, and then looking at where the diagonal line crosses those specifications.
Data Brushing…
"Data brushing" is a simple technique that helps you make sense of data by giving you more power to dive into a SPC Control Chart or Histogram. It is another tool in your toolbox for turning data into knowledge.
Performance Charts…
GainSeeker Performance Charts show comparisons between any data subset you choose. Compare by departments, machines, shifts, vendors, raw materials and more. You can also opt to keep label specific information or keep some of it anonymous when appropriate.
New Dashboard controls for the Control Center Dashboard…
Any of more than a dozen new Dashboard controls with multiple options for displaying key process data, can now coexist on a single, powerful Control Center dashboard that can be read at a glance.
Consolidating three modules into one…
You can have a single desktop that has a dashboard, a variable control chart, a Pareto chart, and a yield chart displayed at the same time. We call this a MultiFunction Desktop because you can add any data in any format to a desktop for easy retrieval. . . .
What’s new in 8.2…
This is the first in a series of posts exploring GainSeeker Suite Version 8.2, which features the NEW GainSeeker Charts module.
