Quality 101: Data Collection Serves as a Management Tool
Data collection ENSURES product quality and increases productivity.
Plant managers are well aware that data gathered from factory floor production equipment can be invaluable for ensuring product quality and increasing productivity. But data collection is a broad term that can cover anything from logging machine temperatures and pressures by hand, to sophisticated systems that display and record real-time information from hundreds of data points. To be effective, data collection must be continuous, easy to display and interpret, encompass all critical machine information and have a long-term storage capacity. Archived factory floor data can contribute immeasurably to a plant's productivity and quality control as a means of capturing machine parameters during production or trial run for new products.