Automotive 

Quality Management Software for the Automotive Industry

To optimize global supply chains, controlling quality and reducing costs are necessities rather than luxuries. IQS provides lifecycle-wide quality management software. IQS also delivers a quality framework for OEMs, Tier One and Tier Two suppliers so they may work together as a competitive team to reduce costs and manage overseas profit and loss.

The automotive industry is unique - and IQS's ability to speak that language is historic. With full support for TS 16949, APQP, PPAP, and FMEAs, IQS goes beyond "supporting" industry standards in order to optimize the standards. IQS connects the details that are required to provide quality across supply partners. This optimization geometrically decreases costs and timing, to provide not only the advanced quality of the products, but the delivery of the products as well.

Features

• Supports AIAG Six Pack: TS 16949, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC and Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA); AIAG MSA Methods; R&R, ANOVA, Basis, Linearity, and Control Charts
• Supports Layered Process Audits at multiple operational levels
• Automates engineering/manufacturing linking functions: product characteristic changes (ECR/ECN/ECO), FMEAs, control plans, PPAPs and document changes
• Supports APQP for cross-functional teams
• Details APQP execution with instructions, checklists, assignments and diagram
• Interfaces bi-directionally with MS Project
• Automatically increases or decreases based on a supplier's specific performance, based on history (Skip-Lot/Dock-to-stock)
• Links components and delivers serial lot traceability for assembly-oriented OEMs and Tier Ones
• Creates a lean, closed-loop non-conformance corrective action process
• Centralizes and links all supporting NCM/CA data for:
  • Customer, supplier and internal communications
  • Characteristics, changes, and revisions
  • FMEAs, control plans, process flows & PPAPs
  • Inspection plans, data collection, and SPC
  • Equipment maintenance and gage calibration
  • Employee skills and training
• Provides root cause traceability within and across facilities and suppliers
• Verifies remediation tasks to assure effectiveness
• Allows web-based quiz capabilities to assure training effectiveness and policy compliance
• Links components to provide serial lot traceability
• Centralized information across divisions provides proactive problem prevention across facilities
• Manages down to a part number/supplier combination
• Manages characteristic details
• Creates defensible, actionable scorecards for ongoing supplier performance ratings
• Customizes scorecards to meet OEM requirements
• Integrates information with ERP, CAD/PLM and other legacy systems
• Fully TS 16949, and ISO 14001 compliant

Benefits

• Reduces APQP risk / increases predictability
• Manages quality and reduces risk of overseas operations
• Reduces PPAP submission time and effort
• Streamlines the engineering/manufacturing "handshake"
• Reduces
  • Change turnaround
  • Non-conformances and NCM reaction time
  • Overall time to deliver a product/part
  • The cost to produce a quality product