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Description
Through-Process Quality Control is a quality system intended to cover the entire production line, from the liquid phase to the finishing and packaging lines of the final end product. The term “Through-Process” has been coined to specifically emphasize this idea. TPQC is a quality management system for steel production, which helps to continuously monitor and to manage quality across all production processes throughout the entire production chain, from steelmaking to sheet galvanizing. The system collects all process parameters and measured production data, starting in the liquid phase until the final product leaves the packaging line for shipment.
FEATURES
• Intelligent storage of high resolution data, encompassing the entire product genealogy and ensuring fast access to all quality-relevant production data of the final strip
• Product Explorer: in-depth analysis of process data based on time or length of product
• Quality and process assistance: rule-based quality checkpoints, root cause analyses, and suggestions for corrective actions
• Automatic rule-based surface grading
• Surface defect density map generated by the integration of surface inspection systems
• Tailor-made reporting
• Statistical Process Control (SPC) & Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Data Analysis: TPQC data can be accessed using data-mining tools to deepen the knowledge about quality & process
• Primetals Technologies provides training and service packages for the different TPQC features
BENEFITS
• Efficient troubleshooting and fast access to the required information in one system
• Quality management & quality certification support
• Reduced manual product inspection, rework, and downgrades
• Reduced influence of human factor
• Digitalization of know-how
• Big data analysis and self-learning systems—leverage your own production data
• Suggestions of root causes, and for corrective, and compensational actions
• Supporting system to achieve conformity with ISO9001/IATF16949 and other automotive standards
• To ensure continuous improvement and stable, well understood production processes, new know-how is created
This paper describes how to use the TPQC integrated know-how-based IT solution to improve efficiency and quality for processing lines.
Keywords
Process Optimization, Quality Control, Through-Process, quality management system