Automating a Manual Process

Given the competitive nature of corporate business, companies constantly seek the most effective way to improve productivity and maximize their monetary gain. Consequently, companies are demanding more control over their processes. The need to get products to market on-time is crucial and trying to get this accomplished with limited time and resources makes it imperative to automate processes whenever and wherever you can. One of the biggest challenges for businesses today is the fact that it takes too long to get data analysis performed manually. Monitoring and validating the product, process, and system health is extremely important if you want to keep your products flowing into their respective markets. This is difficult when data capture, characterization, and analysis methods are processed manually. The manual methods take too long to determine the root cause of a problem and can be prone to error.


TestSoft’s software product, Explicore, serves as the bridge that joins technology with business, streamlines workforce effort, reduces task time, minimizes process variation, and provides more predictable results. Explicore in conjunction with TestSoft’s patented process effectively and efficiently captures, characterizes, and analyzes all data automatically enhancing accountability. The product uncovers significant defects that cause rework, manufacturing timing, and/or delays in development. It is vitally important to remember that data parameters do not need to fail to require improvement.


Explicore has the ability to harvest vast amounts of data automatically (in minutes) to yield immediate results. It rapidly determines which parameters within your data set require improvement as well as effectively and consistently evaluating your product, process, and system health. Evaluations should be conducted periodically and based on the volume of output for a given product thereby continuously validating the integrity of product, process, and system. Explicore will also help you improve the window of opportunity for product release from design – it helps to establish the product health initially. Using TestSoft’s Explicore will make your business more robust and profitable.


Essentially, as it relates to business performance, Explicore identifies the problems that prevent products from being delivered to their respective markets on-time. TestSoft’s patented process and product will allow you to visually view process gains as well as eliminate costly and error-prone manual methods. People and systems, as process participants, can now perform to unprecedented levels of control and predictability using Explicore. Sustainable improvements that previously took an extended period of time to accomplish are possible more efficiently and effectively through the integration of Explicore and Six Sigma. The results of aligning Explicore and Six Sigma are a significant indicator of what businesses could accomplish to contend as a legitimate competitor in their industry.


A leading Fortune 100 firm committed to improving their business by instituting Six Sigma process efforts in specific departments across the company. They expanded Six Sigma training and used the methodology to reduce errors in existing processes. As a result, the company increased efficiency, reduced costs and created revenue-producing opportunities. Now, in a strategic effort to further optimize the business processes by aligning them with enterprise objectives and integrating them with other processes across the company, they needed more than just Six Sigma. The company needed a tool that would augment the principles of Six Sigma to provide an enterprise view of processes and more direct control and manipulation over improvements to those processes. They turned to Explicore.


Explicore will help to dynamically align processes across an enterprise while using technologies to provide visibility and management at any point in the product or process lifecycle. Imagine the possibilities to significantly reduce product, process, and system down-time by rapidly identifying problematic areas. Explicore roots out problems on an average of 2,000 times faster than manual methods. For example, we worked on a 3300+ parameter product manually that took 12 weeks to complete. Running the same product through Explicore took less than 5 minutes to capture, characterize, and analyze the data. In another example, we saved an $88,000,000 company $8,700,000 in warranty cost since we were able to identify root cause efficiently and effectively saving precious resources months of analysis.


TestSoft’s ‘hassle-free’ solution helps reduce the total cost of product ownership, protects your resource investment, and Explicore will give you peace of mind. Together we can make it happen.