nControl: The Next Stage in Manufacturing Process Control
Manufacturing industries have been using statistical process control for nearly a
century to achieve consistently high standards of quality. However, traditional process control is limited to fixed recipes. Each variable is controlled independently to maintain levels within a band around a hard-coded target value. If conditions change – if there’s variation in raw materials, equipment, the physical environment, or the desired quality attributes of the product – a static control process may no longer work.
When a traditional manufacturing process changes, variable target settings may need to be rederived from scratch, through painstaking experimentation. Thus, it’s expensive and time-consuming to scale up production processes or adapt them to new products, new environmental standards, or new disruptions in supply chains and the workforce.
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