Build Quality In: Design, Validate, Control.
Prevent costly issues by designing for manufacturability, ensuring components meet strict requirements, and gaining real-time control over your processes. Minimize risk and accelerate product delivery by building quality directly into operations.
Key Benefits of Product and Process Assurance in QAD EQMS
Be First to Market
Streamline approvals and meet critical customer requirements. Go to market with speed and confidence.
Preempt Margin Leaks
Design for quality and manufacturability; proactively reduce lifetime costs and prevent issues.
Reduce Production Costs
Gain real-time process control and identify failures early, minimizing scrap and rework.
Key Capability to Go To Market with Confidence and Operate with Excellence
Prevent Issues from the Start with Advanced Product Quality Planning
Utilize Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and risk analysis to reduce costs and minimize the risk of future issues. Proactive prevention ensures New Product Introduction (NPI) meets quality standards, launch timing and customer expectations, avoiding expensive retrofits or recalls.
Build Part Validation Upfront to Speed Time to Market
Ensure that your production processes consistently meet customer requirements and industry certifications. Fully integrated with APQP, this formalizes proof of quality, capability, and capacity, reducing delays and the risk of non-compliant parts reaching your customers.
Optimize Production with Real-Time Quality Monitoring
Automate validation of inspections driven by control plans and address failures with integrated non-conformance management. Minimize scrap, rework, and ensure consistent product quality through statistical control and early detection of deviations, driving down operational costs and boosting efficiency.
Reinstate Trust by Ensuring Measurement Accuracy
Manage all your gauges, including calibration and Measurement System Analysis (MSA). Instantly identify calibration issues and tie gauges directly to inspections and corrective actions. Prevent production errors, avoid costly rejections, and maintain critical accreditation for your quality systems.
Brunswick Boat Group is the world’s largest manufacturer of recreational boats, with 13 iconic brands. With QAD EQMS, it standardized quality processes, accelerated problem-solving and shifted from reactive to preventive quality management.
Analogic is a global leader in advanced medical and security imaging systems. With QAD EQMS, it centralized quality data, strengthened compliance and reduced document review time from up to 50 minutes to just five.
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Quality Planning as a Competitive Advantage
Obvious costs of quality are only the tip of the iceberg. In many instances, the cost of scrap is less than 10% of the overall.
Frequently Asked Questions
FMEA stands for Failure Mode & Effects Analysis. It's a method used in manufacturing to anticipate and prevent potential product or process failures. It helps companies identify potential issues and create a plan to mitigate them.
Process FMEA is a systematic approach to identifying and mitigating potential process failures can help prevent quality issues and ensure smooth production flow.
Foundation FMEA is a master template for a family of parts or processes. For example, a single Foundation FMEA could be created for all male-threaded fasteners.
Part-Specific FMEA is a detailed analysis that builds upon the Foundation FMEA, adding unique requirements for a specific part, such as exact dimensions or cosmetic specifications. This approach allows teams to focus on new risks without recreating the same FMEA from scratch every time.
Using a software solution like an Enterprise-level Quality Management System (EQMS) for FMEA offers several key advantages:
- Real-time integration with other quality processes like Control Plans and Root Cause Analysis. This creates a cohesive, end-to-end quality management system.
- Centralized, auditable data that prevents accidental changes and provides a clear history.
- Standardization and efficiency by allowing teams to create foundational FMEA "libraries" or "templates" for common parts, which saves time and ensures consistency.
Skip lot inspection allows manufacturers to associate the frequency of inspection with their confidence in the quality. Inspecting components from a supplier with strong quality performance, with the same high frequency as a new supplier adds time and cost to the inspection process without much value. Applying a skip lot method to inbound inspection saves time and money without introducing unacceptable risks
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