Case Study: Saint-Gobain Containers achieves higher efficiency and mold-cost savings with Northwest Analytics' NWA Quality Analyst

Saint-Gobain Containers Achieves High Efficiency with NWA Quality Analyst Software

Saint Gobain, a glass-container manufacturer with 18 U.S. plants producing thousands of SKUs, needed to standardize quality data management and raise efficiency, productivity and product quality across its operations. To support a company-wide statistical quality control program, they implemented NWA Quality Analyst software from Northwest Analytics.

Northwest Analytics’ NWA Quality Analyst delivered control charts, trend analysis, Pareto reporting and offline historical comparisons to monitor temperatures, flow rates, yields and mold wear, enabling mid-course corrections before defects occurred. The solution helped Saint Gobain extend costly mold life (avoiding $50,000–$60,000 retooling events), improve yield tracking and shop-to-shop comparisons, and drive faster, data-based decisions through daily production reviews.

Saint Gobain

Mike Puhl

Corporate Senior Process Engineer