GDM-PDA (Plant Data Analysis)

Challenge

In many manufacturing environments companies are data rich and knowledge poor. Data is collected at various points in the assembly line from a vast array of measurement devices, but rarely used. Companies outlay a huge capital investment for collection of data. The challenge is; how can we most effectively leverage this investment to reduce scrap and downtime at the same time improves quality.  How can strategic quality decisions be made quicker and based on collected data?

Product Overview

GDM-PDA is an advanced software solution specifically designed for in-depth analysis of production assembly data. GDM-PDA can be used as an independent solution or in conjunction with the GDM-3D and GDM-Web systems. The measured or collected data has a wealth of information within it. GDM-PDA offers users the ability to maximize their data collection investment through using the data in a much more efficient way.

Business Values

GDM-PDA directly impacts and lowers the costs associated to analyzing quality measurement data in an assembly environment. Without adequate data processing systems, more investments are made in data collection equipments and resources without realizing any benefits from them. GDM–PDA by effectively using the data to reverse engineer issues optimizes the inspection devices by reducing the amount of data collected. In some cases eliminating collection equipment and non-value added processes in your assembly line.

Key Product Features & Benefits

• View all your assembly data in one table sorted to show the features that need attention based on the 95th percentile of variation – For focused variation reduction study.
• Display trend charts of data in the date, time order with all statistics calculated.
• Ability to zoom into sections of the trend chart for specific analysis.
• Mouse over to see all the data collection parameters including serial numbers, supplier names, assembly line path and the carriage/fixture used to build the assembly and the corresponding deviation.
• Identify variation caused by a certain carriage / fixture in the assembly line.
• Quickly view the effect of a process change and how that change induced/reduced the variation.
• Compare supplier A versus supplier B.
• Study correlation of one feature to related features and analyze correction effects on other features.
• Analyze the data variation caused purely by fixture variation – to quickly identify the fixture that need to be corrected in an assembly line.

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