Pratt & Whitney Canada, poised to begin manufacturing of a new generation of engines, realized that greater speed of production and real-time analysis of parts quality would be necessary to sustain this initiative. Toward that end, the company wanted to improve in-process intelligence about critical-to-quality (CTQ) parts.

The SAP® xApp™ Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) composite application integrates information from different applications used on the shop floor. In addition, the statistical process control (SPC) Web functionality of SAP xMII enables integration of the information flow throughout the value chain.