Discrete & Process 

Quality Management Software for Discrete and Process Industries

Whether the challenge is timing or margins, discrete and multi-market manufacturers with products that serve multiple markets are competitive to a razor-thin edge. That's why, today companies are turning to enterprise quality management, which hones that edge to a cost-cutting advantage.

Multi-market manufacturers also face a dizzying array of compliance structures and customer processes.

IQS eliminates these problems. IQS systematically and strategically integrates quality practices that meet all manufacturing industry standards with one system for all quality and compliance needs. The same system streamlines operations from engineering, to manufacturing and post-production in order to eliminate waste, which negatively affects the bottom line.

Features

• Complies with manufacturing standards and regulations
  • Discrete: ISO 9000, ISO 14001
  • Automotive: TS 16949, TREAD
  • A&D: AS 9100, 02, 03
  • FDA; cGMP/QSR, ISO 13485, 21CFR Part11
• Automates engineering/manufacturing linking functions:
• Key characteristics
• FMEAs
• Control plans
• Document and SOP
• Changes (ECN/ECR/ECO)

• APQP support for cross-functional teams
• APQP execution with instructions, checklists, assignments and diagram
• Interfaces bi-directionally with MSProject
• Automatically increases or decreases based on a supplier's specific performance based on history (Skip-Lot/Dock-to-stock)
• 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
• Real-time, web-based supplier portal to solve problems
• Root cause traceability within and across facilities and suppliers
• ECRs directly tied to inspection plans
• Automatic generation of corrective actions to issues found
• Remediation task verification to assure effectiveness
• Web-based quiz capabilities to assure training and compliance
• Generate new corrective action if necessary
• Centralized information across divisions
• Full traceability down to the equipment, gage, lot, and part characteristic
• Remediation tasks verification to assure effectiveness, and quiz capabilities to assure training and compliance
• Information directly integrates from ERP and other legacy systems
• Manages down to a supplier/part number combination
• Manages characteristic details
• Creates supplier scorecards
• One-click access for auditors to all vital information

Benefits

• Reduces implementation of customer part submission (PPAP)
• Streamlines the development of partnership between engineering/manufacturing h
• Reduces issues and issue reaction time
• Reduces change turnaround time
• Minimizes risk, rework, and warranty exposure
• Reduces overall product delivery time
• Produces a product right the first time
• Lowers cost to obtain quality
• Lowers product production cost