White Papers
White papers provide additional technical information about Hertzler System's products and services, as well as related topics in the marketplace.
- Aberdeen Cost of Quality Report (email required)
By special agreement with the Aberdeen Group, Hertzler Systems has arranged to provide our customers with free access to Aberdeen's ground breaking report on the state of manufacturing quality. The report, titled "The Cost of Quality - Benchmarking Enterprise Quality Management" examines the common underlying strategies of Best-in-Class quality performers.
Enterprise quality management requires transitioning from a disjointed set of quality processes to an automated set of integrated work flows based upon established best practices. Leveraging such a set of automated work flows allows manufacturers to transform disparate silos of quality data into actionable intelligence, enabling manufacturers to improve finished product quality and reduce the cost of both good and poor quality. - Eight Aspects of the Data Driven Business – Exploring your Gap to Entitlement
While you’d have to travel a long way to find a business leader who would argue against the need to create a data driven organization, if you put a dozen leaders in a room you’d probably end up with nearly a dozen definitions of the ‘data driven organization’. Lacking a common understanding of the data driven organization, leaders sometimes accept as status quo something less than a true data driven organization. They accept something less than their entitlement.
This white paper proposes a common definition of the data driven organization. It also proposes a model for evaluating how effective AND efficient your organization is in using data. - Aberdeen Lean Six Sigma Benchmark Report (email required)
A new study conducted by the Aberdeen Group and sponsored by Hertzler Systems Inc., “The Lean Six Sigma Benchmark”, finds that companies using technology to support their Six Sigma efforts are much more successful in lowering defect rates. The report examines the strategies, enablers, and technologies used by best-in-class Lean Six Sigma manufacturers in their pursuit of perfection. More than 400 companies participated in the study, including Boeing, Glaxo SmithKline, Rexam, Tyco Electronics, EMC, GE, and GM. - Leveraging Technology to Transform Culture (email required)
Six Sigma programs are complex and multi-dimensional efforts that require a fundamental transformation of business culture. This transformation unleashes the human potential in the organization by relying on data – rather than opinion, job title or organizational hierarchy – as the basis for decision making. Technology that makes it easy to get to the data you need can be a powerful tool for transformation to a Six Sigma culture. - Freeing Six Sigma from the ‘Data Shuffle’
“I had these two high-powered and highly compensated engineers – really two of my best people – spending hours scrubbing data and building databases to get the information they needed for their projects.”
The Six Sigma community puts up with an amazing amount of busy work in order to become data driven. This paper looks at the costs and underlying causes for the Six Sigma Data Shuffle and examines how one client tackled the problem. - Data grouping and drill down
Data grouping and drill down provide fast and easy-to-use tools for understanding process variation. These tools are available only in GainSeeker Suite. - How to build an IT infrastructure for net weight control
This white paper explores the key Information Technology (IT) issues that engineers and quality professionals should consider when developing a net contents or weight control program. The intent of this paper is to give non-IT specialists the background they need to better communicate with their IT counterparts and other business leaders, and thus have more effective conversations. - Ten tips for building a real-time weight control system
How to make a user-friendly system that gets the data you need to reduce overpack and reduce material costs at the same time.
- OPC Primer
OPC (OLE for Process Control) is an industry standard created to simplify communications between manufacturing equipment computers. - GainSeeker Suite Hardware and Software Requirements
GainSeeker products are designed for client/server networking environments. This white paper outlines the current hardware requirements and software requirements for servers and workstations. - GainSeeker Suite (v7.6) Supported Environments
This white paper documents the certified test environments for GainSeeker Suite Version 7.6x. - Overview of Certified and Supported Operating Environments
GainSeeker Suite is tested under specific operating conditions. This White Paper clarifies the operational definitions we use to describe this testing process. It also links to the detailed descriptions of supported versions of the GainSeeker Suite. - GainSeeker Suite (v7.5) Supported Environments
This white paper documents the certified test environments for GainSeeker Suite Version 7.5x. - Globalization and Localization capabilities in GainSeeker 7.5
GainSeeker 7.5 introduces new features for supporting localized (non-English) deployments. However it does not meet all the requirements for a fully localized release. This white paper outlines what can and cannot be done with the system.