Prodyx™
Prodyx™ allows Six Sigma to permeate an organization, with the resulting scale in benefits. Designed for six sigma professionals, Prodyx takes variation analysis and simulation methodologies to a new level where data is leveraged between peers and suppliers.
Prodyx™ has been developed specifically to enable designers to foresee the macroscopic implications of their microscopic design decisions.
While still at the drawing board, they can simulate and conduct tradeoff studies, optimizing design parameters. They can refine design requirements and specify production allowances - all at a systematic, comprehensive level for assemblies, sub-assemblies and components.
The roadmap for Prodyx™ includes integration with the many business transaction systems - such as ERP, CRM, CAD, etc. It also includes the extension of that information into analysis and decision-making for the corporation.
This roadmap unlocks the mass of data that have already been captured and reside within the organization, and it leverages that data in the analysis, improvement and control of the business per the six sigma methodology.
Features
- Prodyx™ runs as a stand-alone Windows® desktop application.
- Intuitive Windows® interface.
- 1-, 2- and 3-D tolerance analysis/variation management.
- Linear and non-linear analyses.
- Choose from worst case, root sum square (RSS) and Monte Carlo simulation methods.
- Advanced statistical distributions: normal, uniform, weibull and triangular.
- Build an entire library of variation components, complete with CTQs and performance metrics, for standardized plug-ins to all six sigma operations.
- Save systems, sub-systems and components as libraries that can be shared with other users.
- Reverse tolerance/variation allocation with user-defined weighting.
- Import entire characterized systems and sub-systems from suppliers; export entire characterized systems and sub-systems to customers.
Benefits
- Dramatically expands the role and leverage of product lifecycle software (PLM), assembling the product structure and applying six sigma analytics across the lifecycle of the product.
- Complex systems are hierarchically mapped into products, assemblies, subassemblies, sub-systems, etc.
- Enables previously limited and isolated analysis environments to be expanded holistically and leveraged across the entire enterprise.
- Enables suppliers to participate directly, proactively and productively in an organization's greater six sigma initiative.
- Using Penumbra, a supplier's own designs, plans and operations can be configured for six sigma, and integrated into a greater product and process hierarchy and structure.