Quality Software Reduces Company's Total Annual Cost
Vintara

Ryerson Tull, one of North America's leading distributors and processors of metals, recognized the need to leverage technology that would enable it to streamline the key business processes associated with quality while ensuring that customer satisfaction wasn't compromised. Corporate quality executives at Ryerson Tull had been searching for an online solution that would automate and integrate the company's quality management system. With more than 30 ISO 9000-registered facilities throughout the United States, the company was using a paper-based quality management system that was cumbersome to manage and administer. Ryerson Tull was also managing individual quality systems for multiple regions of the company.

Ryerson Tull came to Vintara with the challenges of converting its existing paper-based documents to an online format, consolidating multiple quality systems, establishing a fully integrated enterprisewide quality management system and completing the transition from

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Company Automates Quality Data Collection
TALtech's WinWedge Pro

Crest Industries serves a wide variety of companies in the consumer and electronics industries. It sells and services automation equipment--both electronic and mechanical aspects--and its newest endeavor is producing custom test equipment for the machines it services.

Managers at Crest were looking for software to interface to a test instrument that measures the performance of mechanical-pneumatic devices used on surface-mount chip replacement machines. The tester, a stand-alone unit that records the various parameters (e.g., speed and accuracy) to its own internal memory, consists of multiple sensors, including displacement and load and pressure sensors. It also includes a bar code wand for reading the bar code on each part as it's being tested. Crest turned to TALtech and its WinWedge software.

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