Can I set up automatic calculations to create new variables?
Yes. You can define calculations that use any combination of variables in the data file, constants, and mathematical operators. You can simply enter the equation in the variable definition window or use Quality Analyst’s built-in, point-and-click equation builder. The calculations are dynamic–as you enter new data, calculated results appear in the target cell. Quality Analyst treats calculated variables like any other data. You can include them in charts and statistical analyses and you can apply format control, specifications, limits, and so on.We collect measurements from different production processes and store them in a plantwide database for reporting. Our quality supervisors and process engineers need to use this data for their own process improvement studies. Can NWA Quality Analyst help? NWA Quality Analyst can exchange data with all major database software. At the most basic level, the database application exports a “flat” text file that Quality Analyst can read. A more power
