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Quality Innovations: Software Solves Data Analysis
By Michelle Bangert, Special Projects Editor, Quality Magazine, August 27, 2007
The Inora software does things differently, according to Ingobert Schmadel, president of Inora Technologies (Ann Arbor, MI).
INORAme stands for Intelligent Optimization Self Regulated Adjustment Math Engine, and according to Schmadel, it automatically recognizes strengths and weaknesses within data and functional models to deal appropriately with unexpected deviations and constraints, outliers and blunders. Other products have limited tools to deal with the problem or no tool at all.
"As far as we know, no one tried like we did to solve the problem of data analysis completely," says Schmadel. "That's why we came up with this."
It is a universally applicable math engine that overcomes two critical data evaluation problems: recognition and differentiation of uncertainty and unexpected deviations within data, and automatic recognition and appropriate handling of all types of constraints. It accomplishes all this with proprietary algorithms that automatically recognize and appropriately deal with all unexpected deviations and constraints.
GENERAL MOTORS TOOL & DIE USES INORAsrs TO CUT MACHINING ERRORS BY 56%
Unique data analysis software and stable artifact (tetrahedron) used to monitor dimensional stability of large CNC milling machines.
Ann Arbor, MI, July, 2007 - Using a lightweight, thermally and dimensionally stable artifact (tetrahedron) and unique data analysis software, General Motors' Flint, MI, Tool & Die Plant is able to determine the accuracy of large CNC milling machines in under 30 minutes. The artifact is positioned, inspected and the data analyzed to indicate the machine axes position and squareness. The user-friendly software generates a simple chart indicating to the operator if his machine is dimensionally acceptable before the beginning of the next job. Because the process is completed in less than 30 minutes -compared to hours using alternative methods- the machines are monitored more frequently which reduces scrap and rework.
In use at the Flint plant for more than a year, the INORAsrs system is being rolled out to all General Motors tool & die facilities.