QAD EQMS
(Enterprise Quality Management System)
Manage your product quality with a preventative approach. Optimize manufacturing performance, comply with industry standards and manage risks.
- Improve operating margins
- Enhance customer satisfaction
- Standardize quality processes
- Improve visibility across the enterprise
Capabilities
- Quality prevention
- Best-practice workflows
- Deep supplier access
- Complete integration
Benefits
QAD EQMS is a fully integrated enterprise quality management system that provides timely visibility into manufacturing and quality-related issues across the enterprise. It facilitates a preventative approach that helps to build quality into the process from the product design phase. Some key benefits include:
Improve customer satisfaction by increasing the number of quality products delivered in full and on time
Improve margins/EBITDA by reducing internal failure costs, preventive quality costs, shipments impacted by quality and recalls
Enhance supplier performance by ensuring conformance to best practices for supplier quality, delivery and continuous improvement and by increasing visibility
Improve collaboration and visibility within the organization and across the supply chain, providing a single source of quality information
Reduce waste due to fewer defects and overproduction, and less waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion and extra processing
Close training gaps that arise due to retirements, absenteeism and high turnover
Manage and mitigate risk with a closed-loop, integrated system to move your organization from a reactive, costly business model to a culture of prevention
Solution
QAD EQMS helps manufacturers manage quality from end-to-end and allows global enterprises to optimize manufacturing performance, comply with industry-specific quality standards and facilitate risk management analysis. It ensures suppliers comply with quality standards, tracks corrective actions and supports continuous quality improvement. Key capabilities include:
Document Control ensures your team is always working with the latest revisions. Electronic document routings and approvals keep the process moving efficiently and make sure information is available to everyone at the right time.
Training Management helps ensure training needs are effectively identified and addressed, even as changes occur in your organization. It includes comprehensive training tracking capabilities that meet requirements such as ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 13485, HACCP, 21 CFR (QSR) Part 820 and others.
NCR/CAPA (Non-conformance and Corrective Action) capabilities ensure that your company’s dedication to problem resolution has full support for these critical functions, including the ability to start NCRs and CAPAs separately with the option to link when appropriate. Incident Investigations also enable system-driven discoveries as preceding activities to qualifying an event as an auditable issue or address environmental health and safety (EHS) events.
Auditing/LPA (Layered Process Audits) simplifies the entire audit process with a closed-loop system to address product, process and system audits, plus manage any findings or non-conformities.
Risk Management helps prepare risk assessments to identify issues, define the likelihood and consequences, document current controls, and develop treatments to mitigate risk to your organization. It supports the prioritization of risks, ensures mitigation plans are in place and maintains a risk register in a single repository.
APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning)/Design Control is an essential part of automotive industry standards and the commercialization of medical devices. By taking the time to design for quality and manufacturability, product and service quality improves, and costs are minimized for the life of the product. QAD EQMS provides capabilities to ensure product introductions happen on time and products meet design goals.
PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) is crucial to ensure that the product you receive or ship meets the stated customer requirements. It is also a key part of many certification standards, including IATF 16949. Manage this process with the QAD EQMS system that is fully integrated to APQP and other key processes.
Inspection and SPC (Statistical Process Control) captures process information in a central repository to enable rapid evaluation of the data. The output can be presented quickly in SPC charts that spur effective course corrections.
Complaint Management provides a complete system integrated to CAPA so you not only record complaints but also ensure the situation is resolved effectively.
Adverse Events capabilities ensure that your company’s dedication to adverse events tracking and problem resolution.
Supplier Quality includes supplier quality management that helps ensure conformance to best practices, and supports the planning, execution and documentation of supplier audits.
Continuous Improvement incorporates continuous improvement suggestions, projects, lessons learned, issue management and meetings into a centralized system to manage this crucial process.
Gauge Management monitors gauges with a complete calibration and Measurement System Analysis (MSA) tool kit and ties gauges to inspections and corrective action.
Easily integrate with other systems using either SOAP or REST protocols/APIs.
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Further Information
7 Keys to Building a Quality Culture
