SanDisk streamlines manufacturing operations, manages process data with InfinityQS

• 分析与建模 - 预测分析
• 功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)

• 消费品
• 电子产品

• 流程制造
• 质量保证

• 机器状态监测
• 预测性维护
• 过程控制与优化

• 软件设计与工程服务
• 系统集成

As SanDisk’s product offerings have evolved, so has the need for a Statistical Process Control (SPC) platform that ensures consistent quality throughout every level of production. SanDisk required an SPC system that was flexible enough to analyze real-time process data over the full product range, and powerful enough to predict potential quality issues in order to prevent scrap and rework. SanDisk’s factory Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Camstar Manufacturing, controls manufacturing business processes, but is not designed to perform granular real-time process data analysis at the shop floor level. To complete that loop, SanDisk chose InfinityQS® ProFicient™ SPC software to integrate real-time process data with Camstar Manufacturing and SanDisk’s factory Quality Management System (QMS), Camstar Quality.

SanDisk’s rise to the top of the flash memory storage market is built on the company’s ability to deliver new and transformational digital experiences to users everywhere. As an innovator in product design, manufacturing, branding, and distribution, SanDisk has made quality the cornerstone of its operations. SanDisk manufactures a diverse product portfolio that includes flash memory cards and embedded flash memory components used in consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, and digital media players as well as enterprise solutions.

As an integral component of SanDisk’s comprehensive quality solution, ProFicient collects process data and delivers real-time analysis to quality engineers, process engineers, and management. When measured data begins to drift out of a statistically “normal” range, the Remote Alarm Monitoring Service (RAMS) automatically places a hold on the lot through its interface with Camstar Manufacturing, sends notifications, creates a quality incident through its interface with Camstar Quality, and creates reports for key quality personnel. The automated solution provides a closed-loop approach, providing complete visibility and saving SanDisk’s quality and process control team valuable time, money, and resources. The system enables the team to react to every potential incident and control processes before a defective product is manufactured. SanDisk is also using InfinityQS’s Data Management System (DMS) to consolidate and standardize process data. DMS integrates live data from serial devices, TCP/IP, and text data files into a single database for analysis and control.

• The software has allowed SanDisk to attain an ROI much more rapidly than if they had put in the time and money to customize their MES to do something that it was never originally designed to do.
• The automated solution provides a closed-loop approach, providing complete visibility and saving SanDisk’s quality and process control team valuable time, money, and resources.
• The system enables the team to react to every potential incident and control processes before a defective product is manufactured.