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Article: Measuring business performance.
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- Manufacturing Business Technology
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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By Hope Neal, Contributing Editor
Analytic tools send early warnings on potential production, supply chain disruptions
With thousands of SKUs and up to 12 quality control tests being run on each one, BGF Industries, a manufacturer of fiberglass and other high-performance fabrics, had collected approximately 5 million data points solely through its lab testing operations. But getting the data out so that it could be analyzed was virtually impossible, making it difficult for the company to determine if there were problems with a product.
To solve this issue, the company looked to statistical process control (SPC) procedures to monitor for ...