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Data Science Automation was founded as an automation
programming and consulting firm, but has grown and diversified significantly to
provide comprehensive research, manufacturing and business automation services.
DSA currently provides services ranging from a short project consultation,
writing detailed project specifications, or delivering complete turn key
automation solutions including all of the ancillary engineering necessary.
Data Science Automation is in business for the following purpose: To apply
automation technology to Acquire, Analyze, Present and Manage Data to Monitor,
Predict, Control and Optimize Processes for Increased Productivity, Improved
Quality, Reduced Costs and Deeper Knowledge.
1. Do you need to Acquire, Analyze, Present or Manage Data?
We apply diverse technical skills, and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products
to create integrated hardware and software solutions to acquire and analyze
data, then extract, present and manage meaningful process or product
information.
ACQUIRE: We automate the acquisition of data by
connecting computers to process and product data sources that are used to
measure physical phenomena (e.g. video, temperature, pressure, strain, flow,
etc). Then we write custom code to acquire data from those sensors,
instruments, standalone, networked or wireless devices, files, databases, or
any other conceivable source of data.
ANALYZE: We automate the analysis with existing
routines or by writing custom algorithms to reduce the data to meaningful
process and product information; by conditioning, measuring, and/or applying
digital signal processing, statistical analysis, SPC/SQC, or other diverse
mathematical manipulations.
PRESENT: We automate the presentation and sharing
of the resulting information through custom display graphics, HMI/MMI, charts,
tables, websites or publication-quality reports. We can also automate the
presentation and sharing of information with wireless tools such as PDAs, cell
phones and pagers.
MANAGE: We automate the management of information
by creating custom log files, spreadsheets, databases, tables, forms, queries
and reports that facilitate data security, storage, integration and mining.
2. Do you need to Monitor, Predict, Control or Optimize
Processes?
We apply diverse technical skills, and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products
to create integrated (not isolated) hardware and software solutions that span
the enterprise; to monitor and predict research and manufacturing process
capabilities, and control those same processes and product tests for optimized
performance.
MONITOR: We automate the monitoring of process and
product characteristics, the comparison with process set points and product
tolerances, the logging of data for historical purposes, and the alerting of
personnel in alarm conditions.
PREDICT: We automate the prediction of process
capabilities, product life, equipment maintenance schedules, safety hazards or
violations
CONTROL: We automate the real-time control of
centralized or distributed processes and/or product test sequences by
integrating advanced PC-based software and hardware technologies. In other
words, we
CLOSE THE LOOP by applying SPC, PID, fuzzy,
adaptive and motion control techniques to process devices such as flow
controllers, valves, motors, pumps, environmental chambers, robots, etc.
OPTIMIZE: We automate the optimization of
research, manufacturing and business operations by applying engineering and
scientific disciplines to process and product design inadequacies. We write
robust software solutions that span the enterprise from order entry through to
shipping, integrating factory floor control and capacity with ERP, MRP, MES and
SCM systems for optimization at the highest level. We provide integrated, not
isolated, solutions.
3. Do you need to Increase Productivity, Improve Quality, Reduce Costs or Gain
Deeper Knowledge?
We apply diverse technical skills, and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products
to deliver long-term client value and substantial return on investment (ROI).
We do this by emphasizing productivity, quality, costs and knowledge in your
process and product continuous improvement efforts.
PRODUCTIVITY: Our automation delivers increased
productivity in the form of faster, more efficient and highly synchronized
business, manufacturing, laboratory, or product quality inspection processes.
QUALITY: Our automation delivers improved quality
in the form of 100% product inspection that is more reliable and more thorough
than manual or obsolete methods. We also architect solutions that result in
more consistent processes with Six Sigma objectives to prevent quality
anomalies from the start, not just inspect for them after they are introduced.
COST: Our automation delivers reduced costs over
the lifecycle of the system. With our Design for DurationT approach, we
emphasize the value of systems designed for the lowest total cost of ownership.
Everything we do, from vendor selection to code documentation and personnel
training is designed to reduce your risk (and dependence on us) and deliver a
modular solution that will be supported, useful and cost-effective long into
the future. In this way, your direct capital improvement and ongoing expense
costs are contained. In addition, the system itself results in reduced
production costs, products with fewer defects and processes with reduced labor
requirements.
KNOWLEDGE: Our automation delivers deeper
knowledge and facilitates enterprise-wide sharing of real-time and archived
process and product information. You can't improve what you don't understand,
and you can't understand what you don't measure. To consistently grow your
competitive advantage, we apply measurement and automation practices to
transform data into information, and information into knowledge.
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