Siemens Diesel Systems Technology (SDST), a joint venture between Siemens Automotive Corporation and NLP, a wholly owned subsidiary of International Truck and Engine Corporation, a tier-one automotive supplier, has selected and installed InfinityQS SPC software to manage the quality and statistical process control (SPC) of its diesel fuel injectors.

InfinityQS International, a provider of enterprise-wide quality control manufacturing solutions, made the announcement recently.
SDST’s fuel injectors are used in the Power Stroke diesel engine designed and built by International for Ford Motor Company’s Super Duty trucks, Econoline vans and Excursion SUVs.
“We needed an SPC package that could manage data in a variety of ways across multiple machines and processes based on the customer’s needs,” said Mike O’Shields, engineer for quality at SDST.
 “This led Siemens VDO and our gauging partner Etamic to perform an exhaustive analysis of the available SPC software packages looking for our 30 ‘must have’ features. InfinityQS was chosen because they were best suited to meeting all of our requirements. Using their products, we are now easily collecting and analysing over a million data points per day across our entire plant.  In fact, the quality system at SDST has been identified as a ‘Best Practice’ by Siemens VDO Automotive Corp and InfinityQS played a key role in that recognition,” O’Shields added.
Siemens VDO Automotive is a tier-one supplier of automotive electronic/electrical systems and components.
 In another development, InfinityQS International announced it had formed an OEM agreement with FMC FoodTech, a leading technology and solutions provider to the food processing industry.
InfinityQS International and FMC FoodTech will develop an OEM version of the InfinityQS statistical process control software adapted to the special needs of the food processing industry. The new product, Link Process Analysis, will be available exclusively through FMC FoodTech for worldwide distribution.
“InfinityQS’ SPC software provides a robust platform for our Link Process Analysis solution which has been developed for data collection, storage and analysis to improve yield, throughput and productivity while ensuring traceability and food safety,” said Thomas Lundquist, product line manager for FMC FoodTech.