Can something as complicated as Statistical Process Control Systems be implemented with existing equipment?
All the power you need is probably on your desk right now. Today’s PCs have the power of the mainframes of just a few years ago. Work- stations, LANs, servers, and mainframes can all play a role in SPC systems. G&E specializes in creating custom solutions to complex problems. The computing environment is usually not the problem. Selecting the right pieces and putting them together in unique ways to accomplish your objectives is G&E’s specialty. Polaroids SPC was built solely out of existing pieces of Polaroid’s computing environment. We used their favorite spreadsheets (Quattro for one system, Excel for another), their databases (RDB for one, Access for another), their existing PCs and DEC PathWorks LAN to build SPC systems for all their camera assembly lines. Some data is collected by automatic testers, some is collected by inspectors with tally sheets. Either way G&E provided a custom solution that makes data entry and report access so easy that production line workers are responsibl
