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JMP for Manufacturing

With 25 years of experience in providing best of class analytics, SAS has long-term viability and stability. JMP, a business unit of SAS, has 12 years of experience in areas like manufacturing and Six Sigma and is currently being used as the statistical software of choice. JMP offers best in class analytics, custom design capabilities (DOE) and a scripting language that makes JMP easy to use for all classes of users throughout all departments of a manufacturing organization from the design process, throughout the production process, quality control through globablization and standardization. JMP can be easily integrated company-wide increasing ease of use and a higher level of automation.

JMP couples powerful analytics with custom capabilities and automation in a desktop statistical software package that can be easily used by all levels of users across all industries supporting every step of the design and manufacturing process. Analytics can now be used throughout the manufacturing process not only in design phases but to track problems and prevent them as well.

Manufacturing Oriented Features

  • Powerful Analytics and Graphics: JMP’s powerful and extensive analytics such as DOE, Time Series, Logistic Regression and Partition, and graphics such as Quality Control Charts, Histograms, Pareto Charts, Process Capability Charts, and Gage Charts have the ability to support every stage of the manufacturing process.
  • Dynamically link graphics and data: Statistical results are dynamically linked to graphics providing presentation of data and graphics together. Click on a point in one graph and see corresponding observations highlighted everywhere those values are represented. JMP’s dynamically linked graphics and data allow for easy identification of outliers in all phases of the manufacturing process thus assuring product quality and brand image.. Easily identify trends. Query and retrieve data from ODBC databases and file management systems (Microsoft® Excel and Access, Oracle®) using ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) Drivers. Transfer data directly from your quality assurance testing equipment for immediate analysis to quickly identify outliers.
  • JMP Scripting Language (JSL): JMP’s scripting language makes standardization possible by automating processes so that anyone in any department can run them. Record, repeat, program, automate, and customize tasks. Take JMP to the shop floor. By using scripts, JMP Scripting Language assures consistent results and reduces the probability of errors from user to user. JMP power users can bundle multiple analytics into a template and distribute a script that can be run by users with less experience with a click of the mouse. This assures the consistency in your results from production line to production line and plant to plant around the world. Scripting also aids in the speed at which you obtain results.
  • Design of Experiments (DOE) Custom Designer: JMP’s design of experiments allows prototyping of the most unconventional design used in the manufacturing process. Specify the problem, laying out various kinds of factors and responses, and JMP obtains the optimal design that gives you the most information for a given number of runs. You can mix and match any combination of continuous factors, categorical factors, mixture factors, blocking factors and covariates. You also have the ability to modify a design interactively. DOE Custom Designer supports experimentation end-to-end – from planning to designing to fitting to prototyping to optimizing. Save response, factors, constraints from DOE so it’s quicker to collaborate or repeat experiments with no need for re-entering data. You are quickly able to eliminate nonconforming designs that allows you to narrow the range of designs to consider building a prototype that most closely meets your product specifications.
  • Statistical Quality Control & Variability Charts: Use control charts, capability analysis, Gage R&R, as the tools to detect, analyze and solve process related problems. Track quality levels and report to the supply chain. With process control and capability charts, quickly obtain a snapshot of process performance and capability all in the same dynamically linked window. Write alarm scripts, using JSL, to warn users of out of specification/control situations results. Tie specific quality variables to product line adjustments to quick identify when a line is out of specification and then quickly be able to make the appropriate adjustments in-process to reduce sub-standard or scrapped products.
  • Reporting Flexibility: Copy and paste from JMP to Microsoft® software products to tailor a report or presentation for any department in the organization. Edit and annotate results and save as JPEG or HTML files to publish to the web or other software programs. Customize output for different users or departments.