Zontec SPC Software

February Trade Magazines Spotlight Zontec

Zontec products and customers figure prominently in the trade press this month. Adhesives & Sealants magazine features Synergy 3000 SPC software in an article titled, "Managing Supplier Quality with Global SPC." Ceramic Industry magazine devotes a three-page article to Zontec Synergy 2000 customer Palmetto Brick's quality program in a special "Brick & Clay Record" supplement.

Zontec SPC in Second ConocoPhillips Plant

Zontec Networks with Hundreds of Toyota Suppliers

For the sixth year running, Zontec was a participant in the Toyota Opportunity Exchange, a trade fair and conference dedicated to forging sourcing relationships between the automaker's Tier I suppliers and Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs), held at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati.

Toyota Engineering & Manufacturing Automotive North America encourages a minimum five percent supplier purchasing target from qualified MBEs. Zontec took advantage of the networking event to acquaint suppliers with Synergy SPC software. Zontec's inclusion in the Opportunity Exchange was in recognition of its certification as an MBE by the South Central Ohio Minority Business Council, an affiliate of the National Minority Supplier Business Council.

Palmetto Brick Company Chooses Zontec SPC Software to Manage Product Quality

If Quality Expo Detroit isn't on your calendar, you still have three weeks to pencil it in.

Quality Expo Detroit takes place Wednesday, June 11 and Thursday, June 12 at the Rock Financial Showplace in the northern Detroit area.

We'll be demonstrating the Synergy 3000™ Global Supplier Quality Management System, the new Multi-function Toolbox for integrating with external data sources, as well as our complete line of other SPC software programs. It's an excellent chance to meet with your Zontec account and support representatives who will be eager to answer your questions and learn about your quality goals. Each visitor requesting a demonstration will receive a free copy of The Book of Statistical Process Control (while supplies last). Click here for the on-line registration form.

We look forward to seeing you at the show!

Synergy 2000 Version 7.0 Now Available

We are pleased to announce the release of Synergy 2000™ Version 7.0 in French and Spanish, giving them the same features and functions as our current English language edition. (The Chinese edition was released in January 2008.)

Zontec's multilingual support enables manufacturers to standardize their statistical process control activities on a single software package for worldwide consistency. Multiple language editions of Synergy 2000 7.0 can co-exist within the same facility. Users can even collect the data in the local language, then chart, monitor and report on it in another.

Synergy 2000 v7.0 contains nearly 20 enhancements over v6.0. Request the list of new features.

Special thanks to Sigma Plus and Sispro, our reseller partners in France and Mexico, for their help with the translations.

Supplier Data Collection Comes to the Web!

In today's global economy, managing supplier quality has become one of the most critical business challenges. Zontec's Synergy 3000™ Statistical Process Control (SPC) Software allows customers with dispersed supply chains to exercise total control over supplier quality by implementing uniform quality procedures across Windows^® and the Web.

For the first time in any SPC software program, suppliers can log onto a customer's Web server and perform data entry within a powerful and secure Web Operator browser application. Meanwhile, customer personnel can access the supplier data from either the Synergy 3000 Windows application or Web Manager browser interface to monitor, analyze and report on supplier activity 24/7.

The advantages of Zontec's global supplier quality management system include:

• The ability to quickly move from an "inspect and reject" mentality to a more proactive "predict and prevent" strategy
  
• Customer-controlled SQL supplier databases
• Freeing suppliers from inconsistent data management, reporting and security issues
• Complete traceability, audit trails and accountability records
• On-line procedures and reference documents that the supplier can easily follow
• Automatic e-mail and text message notification to designated customer and supplier contacts when process violations occur
• A reduction or even elimination of incoming part inspections

Unlike complex enterprise business systems that involve lengthy implementation schedules and extended time-to-benefit, Synergy 3000 offers a rapid installation timetable and the potential for millions of dollars in manufacturing cost savings. Synergy 3000 represents the next generation of enterprise quality management and a breakthrough architecture that other vendors have been unable to achieve.