DataPage – SPC tool set for metrology

DataPage meets the needs of global manufacturers.  The days when using SPC was optional, when it was something that might be worth investigating someday are long gone.  Today, any company that wants to be competitive knows that SPC is the most useful processes control tool available.  They also recognize that while there are many SPC software packages on the market, few of them can truly be called “shop floor hardened”.  With user base of over 15,000, Wilcox Associates DataPage is.  DataPage has proven to be an invaluable tool for all kinds and sizes of manufacturers ranging from small shops making simple parts to the largest multi-nationals performing the most complex operations.

DataPage grows as you grow.  As companies expand and mature, their uses for SPC become more sophisticated.  At first, they need basic capabilities that help them identify trends before they become problems.  As time goes by and requirements change, they want to be able to use SPC to get a fuller understanding in their processes.  What they don’t want is to have to do is to learn a new SPC package as their needs change.  DataPage, developed over many years in response to thousands of users, avoids that problem.  It is easy for beginners to use and yet gives power-users the capabilities they demand. 

DataPage is a complete SPC tool set.  The basic package offers a complete set of tools for analyzing data and generating reports.  It conforms to industry standards as it calculates, and it precisely presents information.  In addition, DataPage gives users the ability to sort and filter data as they see fit.

DataPage manages high volumes of data.  Many SPC softwares do a fine job until they have to deal with significant amounts of data.  Unfortunately, for the users of these products, manufacturing processes generate lots of data.  To be useful in this environment, a software package must be able to accept large amounts of data as it becomes available, evaluate it and get the results back to where they have to be as quickly as possible.  DataPage can do just that.  Because it is built upon a robust, scalable database architecture, it can easily manage and manipulate the volumes of data coming from today’s shop floors. 

DataPage offers a comprehensive set of reporting tools.  To be effective an SPC package must be able to produce meaningful information for a variety of audiences.  What’s useful to machine operators focused on making good parts is usually not of great value to plant managers.  What is of interest to them is knowing when a process needs attention.  They are looking at the same data only in different ways.  DataPage has this flexibility.  It can produce reports analyzing the characteristics of a particular feature being fabricated on a particular machine, and it can give users a look at the performance of an entire assembly line.  And if that’s not enough, Wilcox Associates offers add-on modules to extend its analytical and reporting capabilities.  DataPage turns raw data into mission critical information. With built-in tools ready to work for you, DataPage makes easy work of extracting the information you need to keep your processes running at peak efficiency.

 DataPage interfaces to a wide range of measurement instruments.  Manufacturing data comes from all kinds of devices.  To be of use, SPC software must be able to collect data from as many of them as possible as easily as possible.  If users have to enter too much data manually, or if they can’t get it from many of their inspection devices, then the information they get from their SPC software will at best be incomplete and at worst misleading.  DataPage has been listening to all sorts of measuring devices for over fifteen years.  It accepts data from all kinds of measuring devices in all types of formats.

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