Discrete & Process Quality Management System

Discrete and process manufacturers share challenges such as increased competition, demands for faster time to market and globalization.  On top of that, discrete manufacturers face inconsistent incoming quality and shrinking margins while process manufacturers must manage stricter compliance standards and process variability/complexity.  Surviving in this environment necessitates doing more with less, and doing it right the first time.  IQS enables this necessity be seamlessly integrating operations all the way from engineering to manufacturing to post production, resulting in increased efficiency and less waste.

IQS enables manufacturers to optimize their business around the industry's quality processes and standards such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000, APQP, PPAP and FMEA.  IQS also delivers a comprehensive quality framework that empowers collaboration in a meaningful and knowing way.  IQS connects the required details to provide quality across supply chain 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.

The IQS Quality Management solution provides visibility and control across the supply chain along with local execution of your quality processes.  This enablesyou to holistically manage your APQP process, monitor and analyze nonconformance issues an corrective actions, investigate customer complaints, examine supplier performance, and manage documentation across not only the enterprise but the entire supply chain.  As a result, you can:

• Reduce labor cost across quality, engineering, compliance and operations
• Lower the cost of product launches and engineering changes with an integrated APQP
• Decrease production cost from fewer nonconformance issues

The IQS Compliance solution enables you to identify and verify the quality standards imposed by industry including the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families.  The resulting enterprise-wide compliance framework lets you:

• Lower the cost of compliance to industry standards
• Reduce costs related to poor quality

The IQS Risk Management solution helps you identify, assess and manage the increasing scope of risks in the following areas: operations, compliance, and suppliers.  By carefully analyzing risk scenarios, you can:

• Lower expected losses within established tolerance guidelines
• Greatly reduce unexpected losses outside the tolerance leve
• Optimize the company's risk profile

Discrete & Process Manufacturing Quality Management System Feature Set