JMP for Chemicals and Plastics

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 in many chemicals and plastics manufacturing environments. 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, from the design process through the production process, and quality control through globalization and standardization. JMP is used by regulators as well as organizations being regulated. JMP can easily be integrated company-wide, increasing ease of use and a higher level of automation.

Chemicals and Plastics Oriented Features

• Design of Experiments (DOE) Custom Designer: JMP’s Design of Experiments allows for design and prototyping of even the most unconventional designs. Plan a mixture design or predictive model to describe even the most intricate chemical 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 that describe attributes like finish, color, permeability; dimensions of parts and how they fit together. 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. What's more, you can easily communicate the results to your development and/or product manager.
• 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 chemicals and plastics manufacturing process. Whether you are exploring a future market, trying to predict what factors influence a design, or making sure your product maintains it quality and that processes don’t go out of line, JMP can help you solve your business problem.
• Easy Incorporation of Standard Industry Formulas: JMP’s formula calculator allows for easy incorporation of standard industry formulas. In addition, JMP’s scripting language allows for deployment of these formulas on an automated basis enhancing the ability to get your product off the production line and out the door quickly.
• Graphically Enhanced Statistics and Data: Statistical results are 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. Maintain quality and enhance processes using JMP’s graphically enhanced statistics and data allowing for easy identification of outliers in all phases of your manufacturing process, thus assuring product quality, brand image and attention to important federal regulations. 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 historical data directly from your quality assurance testing equipment for immediate analysis to quickly identify outliers.
• JMP Scripting Language (JSL): Chemicals and Plastics production managers rely upon JMP’s scripting language which 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 who are in touch with quality and production processes throughout the plant 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 of 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 and in the world of Chemicals and Plastics where competition is keen and product cycles are short this is mandatory.
• Statistical Quality Control & Variability Charts: Quality Managers use control charts, capability analysis, Gage R&R, as the tools to detect, analyze and solve process related problems. They track quality levels and report to the supply chain. With process control and capability charts, they quickly obtain a snapshot of process performance and capability all in the same dynamically linked window. By writing alarm scripts using JSL, Production Managers can easily 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.
• Training and Technical Support: JMP’s complete training program allows for specialized training of chemical and plastics industry personnel who will use and deploy the JMP tool. In addition, SAS’s award winning technical support will quickly solve problems associated with deployment.