'Computers Are Useless, They Can Only Answer Questions' - Picasso 

    Process Historians such as PI have been gathering large amounts of  data
about production operations for many years.  Most of it has not been used because the methods available aren't capable of doing a good job. Either only a few measurements can be studied at once or they require a trained statistician, as well as a process engineer or a control engineer, to think of and ask the right questions.  

The root problem has been the lack of a way one can see and explore in two or three dimensions.Curvaceous has taken this one step further and without losing any information, the multi-dimensional space that results from the combination of many process measurement points and many laboratory quality results can now be studied in full. 

The problem began with Euclid who, lacking computers, made the over-simplification of drawing the axes in his geometry at right-angles to each other. Therefore only representing three dimensions.  If the axes were drawn parallel to each other representation of as many dimensions as he wished would be possible, limited only by the width of his paper.

The Curvaceous Visual Explorer program does just that. It shows multi-dimensional data in two dimensions and allows the user to extensively and visually explore it. 

Visual exploration is good for two reasons:  

One is that it is not necessary to understand any of the mathematics of parallel coordinates in order to use it,

The other is that it directly utilises the human brains enormous capability for pattern recognition so that the explorer is led towards unsuspected conclusions. This is instead of having to formulate a hypothesis first and then develop an experiment or correlation to test it.

    The process engineer can thus explore the interactions between process and quality variables using their regular PC.  This has great benefit for 

        * Improving consistency and usefulness of quality specifications 
        * Discovering the most important variables
        * Comparing product quality and operating practices across shifts 
        * Providing operators with better guidance and operating procedures 
        * Finding the operability envelopes to achieve specific product grades 
        * Avoiding the cumulative tolerancing problem 
        * Discovering cheaper and more efficient ways to make the same product 
        * Discovering contradictions between quality and operating objectives

    This new awareness can result in more accurate modelling and solutions to problems long thought to be unsolvable.  

    For further information please contact Curvaceous Software at:

    PO Box 43 Gerrards Cross Bucks.  SL9 8UX UK Tel +44 (0)1753 893090 Fax +44 (0)1753 893950 Email Enquiries@Curvaceous.com