Quality Design based on SAS / EM ®

During the past two decades, our company Baosteel (the Baoshan Iron and Steel Corporation, Shanghai, China) has accumulated enormous data and information. Much knowledge, such as relationship, rules and patterns among these raw data, is hidden. It was very hard to reveal completely the knowledge since no advanced tools existed. Here we thank SAS Institute for providing us powerful tools to solve these problems. A lot of useful information in our project has been mined after SAS Enterprise Miner tools are used. This paper focuses on using SAS software to control and improve the quality of products in Baosteel. According to the results of mining, the engineers can make their decisions more accurately and easily and change their traditional methods of improving quality by qualitative or by testing. The SAS products include SAS/BASE, SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/IML, SAS/STAT, and the like for windowsTM 95. Besides these basic tools, our more useful and efficient tool is SAS/Enterprise Miner 3.0 for windowsTM 95. The skill level for intended audience: beginner and above.