Lin Engineering is a California-based manufacturer of hybrid step motors that was founded in 1987 as a consulting company specializing in step-motor applications. Today, Lin Engineering is the largest manufacturer of 0.9-degree step motors in the motion control industry. As the quality and custom-product manager at Lin Engineering, I’d like to share how we experienced stepping into cloud-based quality control.

Quality focus and challenges

Our corporate quality policy is to incorporate 4.5 sigma into daily operations as a means of continuous improvement. We expanded our 4.5 sigma and mean value control initiatives and realized that we needed a statistical process control (SPC) system that would allow for real-time quality monitoring and process control. The mean value control initiative embraces the philosophy that producing “to target” is more effective than producing “within spec.”

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