Quality assurance information systems for factory automation

Abstract

Existing manufacturing control systems largely ignore quality assurance (QA( needs. This paper describes a procedure to incorporate QA information into existing manufacturing information systems in an incremental fashion. In addition to incorporating QA needs in the production stage of the information system, the paper details how to extend the upstream source data capture in the pre-production stage as well as downstream in the post-production stage. where numerous revenue-increasing opportunities exist.