Camstar Manufacturing™ – Define, Enforce and Audit Your Manufacturing Process
"Camstar Manufacturing is a valuable quality management tool that ensures all processes are strictly followed, provides process alarms, helps improve manufacturing yields, and integrates CAPA with manufacturing. We spend more time improving quality and operational efficiency rather than collecting data."
- Bob Erb
VP of Operations
BIOTRONIK
With accelerating innovation comes more rapid change into manufacturing, increasing variability and putting added pressure on operations to maintain high quality levels. Manufacturers using Camstar are ahead of the game, with proven ability to improve quality levels and reduce time to volume:
- More Rapid Time to Volume
- Process optimization
- Efficient design transition for rapid NPI
- Improved Yields
- Variability reduction
- Enforcement of best practices
- Lower Operating Costs
- Operational efficiency gains through enablement of Lean
- Improved cycle times
- Increased Compliance
- Efficient product release with self-auditing DHR/LHR
- Containment of suspect lots with complete genealogy and traceability
Camstar's Closed-Loop Model for Advancing Product Quality
REAL CUSTOMER RESULTS
- Reduced NCRs 70%
- Eliminated 54% of CAPAs
- Slashed field failures 65%
- Reduced operating cost $2.0M per site
- Improved first pass yields 13-17%
- Increased production throughput 35%
- Deployment in 4 months
- Reduced NPI from 9 months to 9 days
Camstar Manufacturing includes the industry's most robust Manufacturing Execution System (MES), as well as the Process Design & Modeling capability to fully define the executable manufacturing process.
Camstar Manufacturing: Process Design and Modeling
The Camstar Manufacturing Model provides a structured method to define and align manufacturing process plans with product design, mBOM and their requirements. It enables execution of the supply and manufacturing processes. The physical process and tracking sub-models provide revision-controlled and auditable definition of the manufacturing processes, including operations, specifications, routes, resources and materials. Utilizing past performance of similar processes and products plus current capabilities and capacity in Camstar's Enterprise Platform, true process optimization can be achieved. This is a manufacturing execution system software (MES) like no other.
Early Collaborative Manufacturing Process Development [+/-] |
Understanding the capabilities of the manufacturing process enables engineers to design products that can be manufactured with consistently high quality. Camstar’s manufacturing process design and modeling capabilities enable the process design early during product design, allowing more rapid and reliable transition to manufacturing during new product introductions. Engineering changes can be made seamlessly and executed directly into operations. |
Capacity/Capability Analysis [+/-] |
Understanding of actual throughput , yield, cycle times and as-built product quality data enable more accurate capacity planning and product designs that can be manufactured according to core capabilities. |
Integrated Engineering Change Process [+/-] |
Engineering changes may be automatically released into the manufacturing environment, with the resulting impact tracked and monitored for effectivity analysis and continuous improvement. |
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Camstar Manufacturing: Manufacturing Execution System
Camstar is the largest, most successful independent Manufacturing Execution System (MES) provider in the market today. Camstar Manufacturing (formerly called "InSite") has the only MES model built to support a broad diversity of manufacturing industries and processes – it supports very complex process workflows, high volume automated data collection, mass customization, discrete assembly, batch process, rolled products, and more. The highly configurable platform adapts to the users business without custom code, and its open SOA architecture was designed for ease of integration to enterprise applications and shop floor automation.
Some of the capabilities of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) include
Product/WIP Traceability, Genealogy, Audit Trail [+/-] |
Camstar Manufacturing provides the complete history of all manufactured lots, batches and serialized units, spanning production in multiple plants. Materials consumed, processes and equipment utilized, parametric data collected, exceptions, rework, dates and times, and electronic signatures are some of the details captured. |
Process, Operator, Equipment, Materials Enforcement [+/-] |
Camstar Manufacturing enforces the as-designed process, ensuring the right procedures, operators, equipment and materials are being used, at in the right sequence at the right time. |
Quality Data Collection and Process Limits [+/-] |
Camstar Manufacturing is designed to easily integrate with shop floor equipment, collecting data, tracking results and alerting on process control limits and suspect trends. |
Global Change (ECO) Enforcement and Audit Trail [+/-] |
Camstar Manufacturing enforces engineering changes immediately or as specified by an effectivity date, tracking all data to understand the impact of ECOs and the effectivity of corrective and preventive actions. |
Searchable Electronic Audit Trail [+/-] |
Camstar Manufacturing’s Audit Trail is the basis for the complete electronic Device History Record, Batch Record or Lot History Record (eDHR, eBR, or eLHR) required by regulation. It is self-auditing and completely searchable, allowing rapid product release. |
Forward, Backward Traceability and Correlation [+/-] |
Products, components and supplied material are completely traceable, with “where used” analysis provided at the touch of a button. |
Paperless Manufacturing [+/-] |
Camstar Manufacturing replaces paper processes in today's leading manufacturing environments. Dramatic reductions in errors and operating costs plus support for continuous improvement and lean initiatives are some of the most direct and measurable impacts. |
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Highlights
Webinars
Prevention and Early Detection: Advancing Product Quality Through eDHR
May 22, 2012
1:00pm EDT
Hear how proactive companies are using eDHR to reverse negative adverse event trends
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Online Event
A Holistic View of Quality
Nader Fathi
General Manager, Supply Chain Quality,
Camstar Systems, Inc.
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