Quality Monitoring

See Where Defects StartBefore They Reach the End of the Line

Quality gates catch bad parts, but they do not tell you why a station started failing. Sandhed maps pass/fail rates and SPC data to your 3D floor plan so you can trace defect patterns back to the source station in minutes, not days.

The Problem

Where Things Break Down

When reject rates spike at a quality gate, someone has to investigate which upstream station is responsible. That investigation involves pulling SPC data from one system, production logs from another, and physically walking the floor to inspect equipment. By the time the root cause is found, defective parts have been accumulating for hours. The rework and scrap costs are already locked in.

Root cause investigation takes too long

When a quality gate flags a spike in rejects, the investigation starts with SPC charts, moves to production logs, and ends with a floor walk. Connecting data from three systems to identify the source station takes hours, during which defective parts keep flowing.

4-8 hours average root cause investigation time

Quality data is disconnected from equipment data

Your quality system tracks defects per part type. Your PLC system tracks machine parameters. But nothing connects a torque spec failure at Station 12 to the servo drift on the machine feeding it. The correlation exists, but nobody can see it.

Repeated defects from the same undiagnosed equipment issue

No spatial view of quality across the floor

SPC charts show data per station, but they do not show you the physical relationship between stations. A defect pattern that moves along your production line is obvious on a floor plan, but invisible in a spreadsheet.

Pattern recognition limited to single-station analysis

Our Approach

What Sandhed Does Differently

Sandhed places quality gate status indicators directly on your 3D floor plan. Pass/fail rates, SPC trend data, and defect counts are displayed as color-coded overlays at each checkpoint. When a gate starts showing declining pass rates, the upstream stations are immediately visible in spatial context. You can see which machine feeds that gate, check its sensor data, and correlate equipment health with quality output, all from one view.

Quality Gate Status on 3D Floor Plan

Each quality checkpoint is displayed on your floor plan with color-coded pass/fail indicators. Green, amber, and red status badges let you scan the entire production floor for quality issues in seconds.

Station-Level SPC Overlays

Statistical process control data mapped to individual stations on the floor plan. See control limits, trend direction, and out-of-spec readings as visual overlays on the equipment producing them.

Defect Pattern Visualization

When multiple stations show related quality issues, the spatial layout on the floor plan makes the pattern visible. Trace defect flow from source station through downstream quality gates.

Threshold Alerts for Quality Metrics

Set acceptable ranges for pass rates, defect counts, or SPC parameters. When readings cross your limits, alerts go to the quality team with the station location and relevant data already included.

Quick Assessment

How Exposed Is Your Facility?

Quality Gate Assessment

Answer 5 questions to get a personalized score and recommendations.

How do you currently monitor quality gate performance across your production floor?
How long does it take to identify the root cause when a quality gate flags a spike in rejects?
Can you connect a quality defect at a gate back to the specific upstream station that caused it?

Industry Applications

Built for Your Industry

Quality Gate Monitoring for Automotive

Track pass/fail rates at every station on your assembly line. Correlate quality gate failures with upstream equipment data to protect takt time and reduce scrap.

Automotive

Quality Gate Monitoring for Manufacturing

Map quality checkpoints to your production floor plan. See pass/fail rates, SPC trends, and defect counts per station with color-coded overlays on actual equipment locations.

Manufacturing

Expected Outcomes

Results You Can Measure

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Less scrap and rework

Reduction in scrap through earlier detection

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Faster root cause analysis

Reduction in quality investigation time

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Higher first-pass yield

Improvement in first-pass quality rate

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Setup time

From floor plan to live quality monitoring

Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks. Results vary by facility.

FAQ

Common Questions

Sandhed connects to your quality data sources via OPC UA, MQTT, or REST APIs. Pass/fail counts, defect rates, and SPC parameters are mapped to specific stations on your 3D floor plan. Each quality checkpoint shows a color-coded badge: green for within spec, amber for trending toward limits, and red for out of spec. You can click any station to see detailed quality metrics and trend charts.

Related Solutions

OEE Improvement

Most manufacturers know their OEE score. Few can point to the exact machine, shift, or station dragging it down. Sandhed maps availability, performance, and quality data onto your floor plan so you can see where OEE drops and why.

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Compliance & Audit Trails

Most facilities piece together audit documentation from spreadsheets, paper logs, and disconnected systems. Sandhed records every action, threshold breach, and maintenance event automatically, so your compliance evidence is ready before anyone asks for it.

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Related Resources

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How to Improve OEE: The 5 Levers That Actually Move the Number

OEE is the product of availability, performance, and quality. Most plants know their OEE number but can't pinpoint which of the three factors is dragging it down or why. Improving OEE requires decomposing the score, finding hidden losses in each category, and connecting production data to spatial context so you can see where on the floor the problems actually live.

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See Your Quality Gates on the Floor Plan

We will model your actual floor plan and show you how Sandhed maps quality gate data to your specific production layout. No generic demo.