Delcam Software Helps Keep Nissan on Top
Delcam’s Power Solution Software
During the past few years, the Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. site in Sunderland, United Kingdom, has become renowned as the most productive car plant in Europe. To maintain the site’s high productivity, the technicians in the press die maintenance division use Delcam’s Power Solution software.
Currently, all press tools used in the Sunderland facility are supplied from Japan. It would be too expensive to return them to Japan for design modifications, so a numerical control facility was set up in Sunderland based around the Okuma MCR B II, a five-axis machine with a 5x2 m bed that uses Delcam software. Despite its size, the Okuma gives an incredible 2 µm accuracy.
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Quality Control for Quality Food: SPC Is the Answer
InfinityQS SPC Software
Attention to food quality involves far more than simply monitoring the quality of what people eat and detecting after-the-fact errors. For the food industry, careful monitoring of manufacturing processes to ensure the safety of the product is only one aspect of food quality; compliance with established industry and governmental regulations, consistency of product and reduction of manufacturing costs are also important. Statistical process control is the one tool that can support these four critical components for creating a successful manufacturing process.
InfinityQS International, a provider of enterprisewide quality control manufacturing solutions, is providing The Kroger Co., one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, with its SPC software for the company’s dairy plants. Kroger operates (either directly or through its subsidiaries) 2,519 supermarkets and department stores in 32 states under two dozen banners, including Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Food 4 Less, King Soopers, Smith’s, Fry’s and Fry’s Marketplace, Dillons, QFC and City Market. Kroger also operates (either directly, through its subsidiaries or through franchise agreements) 794 convenience stores, 444 fine jewelry stores, 412 supermarket fuel centers and 41 food processing plants.
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