Case Study: Electrical Devices
Electrical Devices: Switching to the Cloud
Most of us don’t think about the technology that makes our electrical devices work. But we expect them to work—perfectly, every time we turn them on.
That’s where InfinityQS’s client comes in. While most consumers haven’t heard of this North American company, their switching, control, and circuit protection products are key to everyday devices from car windows to circuit breakers.
The company needed to ensure their products met strict standards—and that they could respond instantly to correct process and product variation. Because of their crucial role, creating in-spec products is non-negotiable. Variation in processes must be minimized.
They chose Enact by InfinityQS to maintain high quality across manufacturing plants and gain visibility into process capability and performance.
Before implementing Enact, operators recorded quality data on paper. Spotting trends and out-of-spec issues was problematic and time-consuming. They knew a digital solution was critical to change the way they collect, store, and analyze data. Enact unifies all their quality and process data in the cloud, improving collaboration, and enabling the company to make faster, data-driven decisions.
To ensure a successful transition from paper to the cloud, this manufacturer started by deploying the software to a single product line. We call this focused implementation a proof of concept. It allowed team members to quickly see the value of the software, and they learned how easy it was to build their own data collections and checklists. From there, the company expanded to more product lines at a large plant.
Digitizing their data has delivered huge performance benefits.
Enact makes it easier to standardize naming conventions, which enables the manufacturer to develop best practices that now guide all new product launches.
And compliance is greatly simplified—because the data is always available in real time in the cloud, audits that used to take days now take less than an hour.
The software also gives them the agility to quickly design and launch new products without production issues.
That’s what happens when you see quality as a competitive advantage.