VDISoft.Analytics Individuals Chart Component

The Individuals Chart component is a great tool for monitoring a process in real-time on the shop floor or for offline analysis in a web or windows-based application that drills down into a database like SQL, Oracle or Access. You can even paste data directly from Excel onto the chart and use our import wizard to import the data.

VDISoft.Analytics Moving Range Chart Control

The Moving Range and Individuals charts are often combined when monitoring a process. The Moving Range chart shows the variation in the process while the Individuals chart helps you see where the process is centered.

VDISoft.Analytics Range Chart Control

The Range Chart is used to monitor process variation when you are using subgrouped data. Often you will find this chart paired with the Xbar Chart. One of the many advantages of VDISoft.Analytics is that you can mix and match your charts in virtually an unlimited number of combinations.

VDISoft.Analytics ScatterPlot Control

Do you sometimes wonder if there is a relationship between two or more process variables? Wish you had a tool to help you test your theory? Now you do with VDISoft.Analytics and the ScatterPlot control. Build this great tool into your applications and start learning more about your processes today.

VDISoft.Analytics Histogram Control

The Histogram Control shows you the distribution of your process and overlays a normal curve. Statistics like kurtosis and skewness are also provided. This is a great tool for those of you that want to monitor process capability as well as determine if your processes are in control or not.

VDISoft.Analytics Standard Deviation Chart

When dealing with larger subgroup sizes (say 8 or greater) the Standard Deviation Chart is often a better tool for monitoring process variation than say a Range or Moving Range Chart. The good news is that with VDISoft.Analytics you can choose which chart to use when and how. Complete customization of your solution is our goal.

VDISoft.Analytics Box and Whisker Chart Control

The Box and Whisker Chart is a useful tool for comparing multiple processes. Each Box and Whisker can represent a different lot or process. A quick look at the chart and whether or not there is overlap can tell you a lot about where your processes are running.

VDISoft.Analytics Custom Dialog - Samples Tree

VDISoft.Analytics is much more than just a set of nice-looking graphical controls. We've built in custom dialogs that help you explore the details of your data. Our goal is to design controls that let you explore, drill-down and find the messages your data is sending you. Remember, a process produces two things - a product and information about that product. The information your process provides is telling you how to improve. VDISoft.Analytics helps you find that information quickly and efficiently.

VDISoft.Analytics Edit Sample Dialog

When you double-click on a point or right-click and select the Edit Sample option this dialog appears. Edit your sample data, find out what rules (if any) this sample is violating and add notes all from this built-in dialog. If you're a c# or vb.net developer you'll love all the custom events we give you to monitor what your users are doing with our dialogs. If a note is added an event is fired. If a sample is change another custom event is fired. We've thought of every possible way you might want to use our products and tried to expose everything to you as a developer.

VDISoft.Analytics Edit Sample Dialog

Here's another shot of the Edit Sample Dialog

VDISoft.Analytics Notes Dialog

Something happens to your process and you want the operator to respond and leave a note for management on what happened and what he did to fix it. Our built-in dialogs make it very easy for you to add this feature to your software applications.

VDISoft.Analytics Built-in Menus

Right-click on a control in the VDISoft.Analytics suite and you will find a built-in menu with lots of features. You can save your charts in a variety of formats from images, to text to XML. You can even save the chart as encrypted XML in case you want to securely transfer it from one location to another.

VDISoft.Analytics Printing

Print preview and page formatting can all be done right from the built-in menus. Great looking charts sent to your printer from VDISoft.Analytics is easy to do.

VDISoft.Analytics Individuals Chart Properties

Each control has it's own properties dialog built-in. For example with the Individuals Chart Property dialog you can maninuplate the look and function of a chart with ease. Keep in mind that if you are a developer you have complete control over all of these features from either code or this dialog. In this particular tab you can manipulate a series - this chart can have multiple time series.

VDISoft.Analytics Limit Ranges

A limit range is a way of supplying multiple control limits, spec limits and run rules to the same chart. For instance, suppose you are running multiple products on the same line. From 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM you run Product A, then you switch to Product B. You'd like to see both products on the same control chart. Well with VDISoft.Analytics control charts it's a snap. Just define two limit ranges and your done. Each LimitRange is completely configurable in terms of colors, run rules and calculations of control imits and process capability indices.

VDISoft.Analytics LimitRange Properties

Customizing LimitRanges is a snap with our built-in dialog or via code. Whether its colors, rules or calculations you want to customize you'll find all of the properties, methods and events you need to create a solution that fits your buinsess needs.

VDISoft.Analytics Zones

Often a control chart is divided into different zones based on the standard deviation. Our controls give you total flexibility on how your zones are displayed and defined. As with all VDISoft.Analytic features you can customize through dialogs or via code.

VDISoft.Analytics Rules

Interpreting control charts involves the use of run rules. A standard set of rules that most people are familiar with is the Western Electric rules. These rules cover most of the tests for assignable causes you deal with in process control. Our products allow you to customize how these rules work. You can even create your own custom rules.

VDISoft.Analytics Properties - Statistics

Each control in the VDISoft.Analytics suite has its own set of statistics that are related to the particular chart in question. For example, an Individuals Chart will have statistics like Cp and Cpk while a Histogram Chart has calculations like skewness and kurtosis.

VDISoft.Analytics - Individuals Chart Statistics

The statistics can be specified both at the series level and at the limit range level. Here you see a dropdown with a list of available statistics. Don't see a statistic you want? Let us know and we'll add it for you.

VDISoft.Analytics Statistics Box

Along with statistics, each control has a statistic box where those stats are displayed. The colors, fonts and line styles associated with this box are completely customizable either through property dialogs like this one or via code.

VDISoft.Analytics Caption Properties

Each chart's caption is fully customizable. The charts are context sensitve as well. For example, if the mouse is hovering over the caption and you right-click then you'll see an option to edit the caption. If you're over a point on the chart then other options appear.

VDISoft.Analytics - Other Properties

From this dialog you can edit the x and y axes as well as other properties of the control.

VDISoft.Analytics - ScatterPlot Properties Dialog

The ScatterPlot Control has its own unique set of properties. Like the other controls the data is contained in a collection of series. Unlike control charts, the ScatterPlot series has an x and y pair associated with each point on the chart. With most VDISoft.Analytics controls you can exclude points from the calculations. In this particular dialog you see that excluded points can have their own marker, color and size.

VDISoft.Analytics - ScatterPlot Control Regression Tab

Currently the ScatterPlot control supports simple linear regression models. In the future we may add other models. For most industrial work a simple linear regression can be very helpful over small ranges of data. We do include confidence bands with the regression line to give you an indication of how good your model is at fitting the data.