Overview of Shop Floor imaging, Inc.

Shop Floor Imaging, Inc. provides software and turn-key hardware solutions for general manufacturing with special emphasis on Product Assembly, Metal Casting, and Plastic forming.

SFI Inc's flagship product is QA Display; an online, enterprise-wide process documentation system which eliminates the need for paper-based process sheets. With QA Display you can give all of your employees access to your latest process information and instructions. QA Display lets you easily document and catalog your business processes using images, text, videos, CAD files and even audio instructions! QA Display is touch screen capable, and suitable for use on your shop floor or assembly line. Using QA Display, employees can quickly navigate to the correct and most up-to-date process instructions detailing specific procedures for each step in your manufacturing process.

QA Display brings clarity to your business processes which is difficult or impossible to match with paper alternatives. QA Display also integrates with most popular databases allowing you to display data from ERP and other manufacturing systems. QA Display includes database designer, process modeler and screen designer tools to ensure that you will be able to exactly represent the structure of your manufacturing operations. QA Display offers revision tracking for complete process history and change control, helping your business meet the strict requirements of quality systems through collaborative document management.
 

     Benefits of Shop Floor Imaging Software

     Save management time

  • Many aspects of industrial processes are difficult to quantify with words, therefore these very processes can be clarified with images. Supervisors spend less time explaining things, and errors due to miscommunication are reduced. New supervisors get up to speed in days instead of weeks.
     Simplify ISO/QS 9000 compliance

  • Shop Floor Imaging software facilitates meeting ISO 9000 requirements by employing automatic revision tracking. With QA Display, earlier revision levels are easily recalled for viewing and printing. Maintenance of controlled documents is largely eliminated when procedures are distributed over a network.
     Empower employees

  • SFI Inc's QA Display software emphasizes to employees the importance of quality and gets them more involved in achieving it. The computer can answer a wider range of questions than procedure sheets, so employees can take control of situations that previously would have required a manager's help. Workers report increased job satisfaction when brought further into the loop of quality assurance.
     Less Wasted Materials

  • Even if you produce thousands of different parts, effective visual inspection is easy because images clearly represent characteristics of good and bad products.
     Decrease setup and down time

  • Shop Floor Imaging software solutions provide a central repository for all process parameters. For example; casting parameters, including setup information such as pour temperatures, robot settings, and machine settings. Taking this information out of the "black books" and organizing it in a database reduces time wasted on unproductive activities like looking for tooling.
     Document Management

  • With the addition of the SFI Inc's QA Docs module for QA Display, developing and maintaining the three tiers of your ISO/QS 9000 quality documentation couldn't be easier. Shop Floor Imaging provides the ultimate in online, part-specific work instructions and department level standard operating procedures. QA Docs allows you to maintain your first tier documentation as well.

SFI Inc's QA Display software in action at Aluminum Foundries, Inc.







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