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The GainSeeker Enterprise Suite is made up of modules that perform specific functions. While most modules are included in the Enterprise License, there are a few optional modules.

GainSeeker Suite - Included Modules

All of the modules listed below are included in GainSeeker Suite, Enterprise Client Edition.

Module

Enables you to…

Enterprise Dashboard (Client Edition)

Enterprise Dashboard makes real-time data more visible, accessible, and actionable. It helps you focus your attention on critical issues and then gives you one-click access to the underlying data. Enterprise Dashboard rolls up complex processes into convenient, easy-to-understand graphics and tables.

 

SPC Charts and Reports

This module is used for variable SPC analysis and reporting. Some of the most important features include:

  • Standard SPC charts, statistics, and other tools for understanding your process data
  • A powerful relational database that makes it easy to analyze the same data in very different ways
  • Unique drill-down capabilities that help you find root causes of variation
  • Built-in report writer with unlimited customizable report formats
  • "Send to…" feature that makes it easy to share charts with colleagues and customers or to view the data in another program

 

Defect Charts & Reports

This Defect Management System module is used for attribute data analysis and reporting. Some of the most important features include:

  • Unique multi-level Pareto charts that help you drill down to root causes of variation
  • Standard charts, statistics, and other attribute SPC tools for understanding your process data
  • Continuous improvement charts that help you to track improvement against a goal
  • A powerful relational database that makes it easy to analyze the same data in very different ways
  • "Send to…" feature that makes it easy to share charts with colleagues and customers or to view the data in another program

 

Dynamic Reports

Dynamic Reports module gives you complete control of how you view data. It is a Crystal Reports-style tool that enables users to define every aspect of a report and then publish that report on a periodic basis. This tool will be especially useful for GainSeeker users who need to publish Certificates of Analysis for their customers.

 

WebViz(TM) (coming 3rd Quarter 2010)

WebViz (Web Visualization) makes it possible to share charts, analytics, dynamic reports, and dashboards with suppliers, customers or colleagues over the internet. With WebViz, you can provide On-Demand Data — the capability for supervisors (with proper access rights) to query the GainSeeker database from remote locations (such as corporate headquarters) and generate new charts, reports, and dashboards as needed. In addition, the system includes several administrative tools to maximize your control of the system.

Whether it's a daily dashboard, a monthly report, or a real-time chart, WebViz makes knowledge available to those who need it, when they need it.

 

SPC Data Entry

This module is used to gather data such as product or process measurements, cycle times, test results, etc., and then store the data in the GainSeeker database. This highly customizable system can capture data from virtually any device and integrates well with other information systems. It also provides real-time analytical statistics on new data. When a process changes or a special cause is identified, this module can generate alarms and communicate with people, hardware and other software systems.

 

Defect Data Entry

This Defect Management System module is used to gather attribute data where problems are counted, not measured. Visual defects on a part, reasons for late shipments and associated costs, and errors on a paper form are just a few examples of data collected with this module. It provides a human interface for capturing attribute data, with special support for bar code and touch screen data entry.

 

SPC Designer

Use this module to build customized data entry routines that meet your unique data entry needs. Step-by-step wizards help you build the data entry interface, and a powerful scripting language gives you complete control over the data entry process.

Our consultants use the SPC Designer to build custom interfaces for our clients. We also encourage customers to use this module to design and modify their own data entry routines.

 

SPC Database Monitor

Do you need to see at a glance how everything is running in your organization? Designed for the manufacturing environment where real-time notification of special events and process shifts is critical, this system pulls the alarms for the entire variable SPC system into one easy-to-use screen so you can track everything at one time. If a problem occurs, you can drill into the data to see what’s going on. You can even use this screen to track which events have resulted in corrective action.

 

Note Manager

This module helps you manage your response to out-of-specification conditions and special cause (out-of-control) situations. The GainSeeker data entry modules automatically identify these situations and prompt you to identify events and assignable causes. The Note Manager gives you tools for summarizing and reporting these events, the assignable causes, and the actions taken.

 

OPC Client

OLE for Process Control (OPC) is an industry standard that enables computers to talk to other computers and to process control equipment on the manufacturing information network. The GainSeeker OPC Client allows you to capture data from any OPC-compliant device and to send information back to the device.

 

Administration

This module provides the tools needed to:

  • Manage GainSeeker user logins and system security
  • Administer multiple data sets
  • Configure the system to meet your company's requirements
  • Simplify and automate GainSeeker system maintenance

 

GainSeeker Suite - Optional Modules

The modules listed below are optional and may be added to GainSeeker Suite, Enterprise Edition.

Module

Enables you to…

GainSeeker Suite Server Edition

The Server Edition of GainSeeker Suite provides additional functionality to publish GainSeeker Dashboards and Dynamic Reports to web sites. Unlimited numbers of users may access these reports and dashboards using a web browser, without using any additional GainSeeker client seats.

 

.Launch

.Launch (Dot Launch) is a nice user interface to the entire system. Log into .Launch once, and then you can log into any other GainSeeker module without having to retype your password. Organize all your GainSeeker functionality into the way you perform your job. Plus you can launch any other application on your system and organize all of them in Groups.

 

Syscon Plantstar Interface Syscon Plantstar provides production monitoring systems for the plastics industry. Hertzler Systems has developed a custom interface to their databases, providing long term data storage as well as comprehensive statistical analysis tools.

 

Database requirements

GainSeeker Suite requires a client/server database such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or Pervasive.SQL is required for data storage and system configuration. You may use GainSeeker on your existing client/server database, or install a new database server especially for GainSeeker Suite. For more information, please visit our IT Resources and Technical Information page.

Flexible license structure assumes concurrent use, but also supports named users

GainSeeker Suite is licensed (by default) by the number of concurrent users. Concurrent use refers to how many workstations are logged into GainSeeker Suite at the same time. For example, you may have 40 or 50 workstations where you expect users to use some aspect of GainSeeker SPC at some point in the day, but you estimate that you'll never have more than 25 people using the system at any one time. In this case, you only need a 25-seat concurrent use license. You can install the GainSeeker client on an unlimited number of workstations, and GainSeeker will allow up to 25 people "in" at the same time.

To maxamize your control of the system, you may reserve specific seats for specific users. In other words, if you have some users who MUST have priority access to GainSeeker Suite, you can reserve a seat for them. In this way you can have a blended license structure: Named Seats for people who must have unimpeded access to the system, and Concurrent Seats for anybody whose use of the system is not quite so time-sensitive.

Contact your sales representative for more information.