Software delivers real-time, plant-wide SPC information.

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Quality Analytics Server(TM) provides real-time alerts and statistical process control (SPC) charts throughout plant for process and quality parameters. Capabilities cover connecting to any ODBC-compliant database, monitoring any combination of process parameters, detecting product specification and SPC violations, as well as delivering role-specific analytics and reporting. Software can also incorporate databases and report set-up from NWA Quality Analyst® for SPC.



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NWA Quality Analytics Server(TM) Delivers Real-Time Plant-Wide SPC and Manufacturing Analytics Reporting



Portland, Oregon - October 31, 2008 - Northwest Analytical (NWA) announces NWA Quality Analytics Server which provides real-time alerts and SPC charts throughout the plant for process and quality parameters. Quality Analytics Server connects to any ODBC-compliant database, monitors any combination of process parameters, detects product specification and SPC violations and delivers role specific analytics and reporting.

NWA Quality Analytics Servers is designed for a fast and efficient implementation that provides a plant wide analytics solution with minimal IT overhead. For companies that already use NWA Quality Analyst for SPC, existing databases and report set-up can be incorporated to reduce configuration and training requirements.

"Our operators really like the Quality Analytics 'dashboard'. It automatically updates and tells them when to pay attention." says one Six Sigma manager in a major chemical firm, "QAS lets them focus on just the one point that demands attention, and then drill down to reports and charts as necessary."

"NWA Quality Analytics Server is a major step on our path to deliver our vision of Manufacturing Analytics to our clients." says Cliff Yee, CEO of Northwest Analytical, "With Quality Analytics Server process visibility can reach any part of the enterprise."

For further product information, http://www.nwasoft.com/qas.htm.

Manufacturing Analytics overview, http://www.nwasoft.com/appnotes/spc-based-ma.htm

About Northwest Analytical

Northwest Analytical (www.nwasoft.com) is the world's leading provider of SPC and Manufacturing Analytics software systems. NWA is the SPC standard for global corporations such as Air Products, Chevron, Crown Cork & Seal, Dow, Huhtamaki, Praxair, and Shell. NWA systems and services include NWA Quality Information System(TM) and the NWA eHACCP(TM) food safety management system. The NWA software suite, which includes products such as NWA Quality Analyst®, provides manufacturing analytics, plant-floor quality data collection, management and monitoring, SPC charting, enterprise reporting, and real-time, embedded SPC.

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