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JMP Version 5 Debuts Advanced Technology

JMP software dynamically links statistics and graphics allowing users to explore data, make discoveries and gain knowledge for better decision making. The manufacturing industry, including companies implementing Six Sigma initiatives, will benefit from JMP Version 5 modeling platforms because these models relate historical data to quality and suggest new directions toward process improvements. These enhancements help companies increase efficiency, reduce waste, prevent defects, and ultimately increase customer satisfaction - all key factors contributing to a stronger return on investment.

JMP's unique Design of Experiments (DOE) facility allows users to customize experiments, testing various factors and responses, to gain the greatest insight from the least resources. Version 5 debuts new exploratory platforms to make it even easier to discover the underlying patterns in data that drive continuous innovation and enable organizations to produce top-quality products.

"Our users have saved millions of dollars for their organizations using JMP's DOE, statistics and integrated visualization tools," said John Sall, cofounder and executive vice president of SAS. "We are committed to providing state-of-the-art software to help organizations increase their return on investment through quality initiatives and product design. Version 5 advances in DOE and new modeling platforms keep our customers on the cutting edge of innovation."

Manufacturing and Six Sigma professionals require more advanced DOE features to continuously deliver quality products. JMP's new release delivers optimal experimental designs, complementing the classical design features of previous versions, to help organizations optimize processes and product designs with fewer experimental runs, saving organizations both time and money.

"I have used JMP versions 3 and 4, and have been beta testing 5," said Jack Reece, Ph.D., a statistical consultant and principal at Reece Associates, "A particular strength of the product is its support for sequential experiments. In the real world, rarely does an initial experiment yield all the information an engineer needs. JMP contains the diagnostic tools that help a user determine what information might be missing, and provides the algorithms to complement or augment existing work with new trials, to complete the information needed to exploit improvements."

JMP Version 5 introduces new exploratory modeling options that also help users get to the root cause of a problem even when there is no model identified, when there are multiple variables with non-linear relationships, or when there are underlying factors not measured in the data. As with previous releases, JMP Version 5 integrates visualization into these modeling tools to make it easy for users to understand the relationships found in their data. New causeand -effect diagrams have been added to help manufacturing and Six Sigma professionals understand key factors that impact processes, so that DOE can be used to optimize the process surrounding those key factors.

About JMP

For more than a decade, JMP has helped organizations make valuable discoveries by dynamically linking statistics with interactive graphics to explore, understand and visualize their data. In manufacturing and Six Sigma environments, JMP reduces time spent in product design and prototyping, accelerates the production process for higher yields with less waste, and improves quality control efforts. Available on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, JMP easily integrates with other software packages. JMP is the premier statistical analysis software for uncovering new methods to boost the performance of an organization and increase overall profitability.

For more information about JMP, visit www.jmpdiscovery.com.

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