NWA Quality Analyst Selected by Dow Chemical for Worldwide Quality Initiative
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NWA Quality Analyst Selected by Dow Chemical for Worldwide Quality Initiative
January 27, 2004
Portland, OR
Northwest Analytical, Inc. (NWA), the leading provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, announced that The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) has entered into a global licensing agreement with NWA for NWA Quality Analyst®, its award-winning SPC charting and analysis solution. Dow Chemical has initially purchased Quality Analyst licenses to accommodate more than 5,000 users worldwide, including chemists, lab analysts, technicians, and engineers who will be able to access Quality Analyst for process analysis.
NWA Quality Analyst enables Dow to globally automate and standardize their process reporting so they can produce SPC charts more quickly, efficiently, and consistently. It also allows users to post the charts on an Intranet site where they can compare results between their plants worldwide.
“We are extremely impressed by how easy it is to quickly install NWA Quality Analyst and get connected immediately to the different global databases we need,” said Suzanne Phillips, Analytical Resource Leader (ARL), Dow Chemical. “Once up and running, Quality Analyst is also very easy to use, and provides fast access to charts, even for the non-expert. NWA is enabling us to spend our time responding to data rather than obtaining and charting data.”
Dow selected NWA Quality Analyst because of its flexibility, ease-of-implementation, and ease-of-use. The project goal is to increase the consistency and quality of Dow’s products worldwide. It will also support the company’s Six Sigma initiative—a measure of quality used within an organization to strive for near perfect processes and products—and sustain gains in product quality after the completion of Six Sigma analysis.
“NWA is pleased to be working with Dow, an innovative industry leader and a Fortune 500 company that promotes performance excellence for business success,” said Cliff Yee, CEO of NWA. “Dow can now tie its Six Sigma initiatives to widely accessible SPC analysis which can really benefit its bottom line.”
About Quality Analyst
NWA Quality Analyst® is the award-winning SPC charting and analysis software used by world-class manufacturers to improve their processes and meet vendor certification and regulatory compliance requirements. It provides the best combination of power, flexibility, and ease-of-use of any SPC software available while conforming to the most stringent technical requirements.
About Northwest Analytical
Northwest Analytical (NWA) is the world’s leading provider of SPC software, with more than 50,000 licenses shipped to over 5,000 companies. NWA software is recognized for its power, ease-of-use and tight integration with laboratory and manufacturing systems. The NWA SPC software suite includes products for plant floor data collection and monitoring, charting and analysis collaboration, enterprise reporting, and real-time, embedded SPC. For more information, contact Northwest Analytical at info@nwasoft.com; call 503-224-7727; or visit www.nwasoft.com.
About Dow
The Dow Chemical Company is a leading science and technology company that provides innovative chemicals, plastics and agricultural products and services to many essential consumer markets. With annual sales of $28 billion, Dow serves customers in more than 170 countries and a wide range of markets that are vital to human progress. Committed to the principals of sustainable development, Dow and its approximately 50,000 employees seek to balance economic, environmental and social responsibilities.
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