SAS/QC® Software
What is SAS/QC software? SAS/QC software provides a wide range of specialized tools that will help you improve products, optimize processes and increase levels of customer satisfaction.
Why is SAS/QC software important? SAS/QC provides a depth and breadth of tools for statistical quality improvement not found in other software packages and includes tools for process management as well as process control. It enables organizations to go beyond basic process control to incorporate more advanced statistical analyses for additional insights into processes and product improvements.
For whom is SAS/QC software designed? SAS/QC software is designed for process and manufacturing engineers, directors of quality improvement, directors of manufacturing and directors of customer satisfaction.
Key Benefits
- Quality improvement tools designed to handle large volumes of data from multiple processes. SAS/QC can operate on virtually any data source and runs across most computing platforms. With the ability to monitor multiple processes and integrate a wide variety of data, you gain a more complete picture of enterprisewide quality improvement efforts, helping you maintain consistent standards.
- Ability to identify the root causes of problems. SAS/QC provides powerful tools and a guided user interface for designing experiments and managing the experimental process. SAS/QC enables users to discover root causes of problems, and goes beyond basic process control to provide more complex statistical analyses — all enabling you to create more efficient, cost-effective processes.
- Specialized tools for different users. From interfaces that guide users through the experimental design process to sophisticated tools for product reliability analysis, SAS/QC enables you to go beyond the basics to create insights that drive competitive advantage.
Key Features
- Basic problem solving. SAS/QC provides procedures for analyzing data and presenting the results of problem-solving activities, including check sheets, Pareto charts, Ishikawa diagrams, flow diagrams, histograms, scatter plots and control charts.
- Statistical Process Control. SAS/QC delivers flexible, comprehensive tools for implementing Statistical Process Control, allowing users to create all commonly encountered Shewhart charts for variables and attributes, cumulative sum control charts and moving average charts.
- Process capability analysis compares the distribution of output from an in-control process to its specification limits to determine the consistency with which the specification limits can be met. A variety of graphical displays and statistical measures are available for comparing the distribution of an in-control process to its specification limits.
- Reliability analysis. SAS/QC software includes both graphical and statistical tools for performing reliability analysis for lifetime and repair data. Users can construct probability plots and fit life distributions with right- and interval-censored lifetime data, analyze regression models and analyze data from repairable systems.
- Analysis of means. SAS/QC provides a procedure for conducting an analysis of means that provides graphical and statistical methods for determining which treatment group yields the best/worst outcome.
- Design of Experiments. SAS/QC provides procedures for generating factorial, fractional factorial and mixed-level experimental designs. The ADX Interface, also included with SAS/QC software, is a point-and-click environment for the Design of Experiments.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS/QC Software fact sheet. 
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