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Quality Management Software Solutions for Aerospace and Defense |
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A growing global economy and an increase in air traffic has made the world much smaller. As a result, Aerospace and Defense manufacturers have experienced significant growth in the past few decades. As demand for air travel increases, so does the need for Aerospace and Defense manufacturers, engineering firms, contractors, suppliers and more. Aerospace and Defense Manufacturers are subject to a highly competitive and technologically advanced industry, developing products that will help to take the global economy into the future.
As the need for aerospace and defense manufacturing increases, so does the need to have Quality Management Software in place to ensure the quality and safety of the products. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provides strict guidelines for flight and safety standards, and it is crucial that aerospace manufacturers maintain compliance to the FAA, and to ISO
9000, AS 9000, ISO
14001 and OHSAS 18001.
EtQ has developed a Quality
Management Software
system to help maintain quality to these initiatives, while providing a flexible
workflow platform to
adapt to changing business
processes, without programming. |
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Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense |
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Collaborative,
Enterprise Environment
Large Aerospace and Defense industries with multiple divisions typically have independent, hybrid systems in place. Bridging the gap between these systems is inefficient in the long-term, and ultimately will require expensive customizations to link the enterprise. Re-routing documents, meeting to discuss integration strategy, and IT man-hours in customizations result in lost time and money. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
is designed to incorporate the whole enterprise in collaborating at the enterprise level, while maintaining each division's independent business workflow.
The result is a unified Quality
Management system that allows
for each division to collaborate
with the enterprise.
Unified
Quality Process
Too often, business processes are disconnected, with complaint handling forms, SOPs and the like not connected to the next phase in the record's life cycle. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
allows the process to be linked
automatically and intelligently.
Complaint
handling forms are assessed,
investigated, and opened as a
Corrective
Action if needed. SOPs are
linked to the Employee
Training database, and assignments
are sent. Risk
Assessment tools assess the
risk of records throughout the
process. This unified process
for handling Quality
Management issues results
in an efficient system, where
no time is lost and no problem
overlooked.
Business
System Integration
As more and more business systems are implemented in an Aerospace and Defense organization, the ability to communicate between these systems becomes difficult. As a result, crucial processes are disjointed and often rely on manual "jumping" between systems, which can lead to inefficiencies in the process. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
features a robust integration
layer that allows for information
to be passed to and from external
systems, widening the scope of
the quality process to include
ERP, MRP, MES and other business
systems.
Advanced
Search and Reporting
Having a system store your documents and records is often not enough to ensure quality within a business. The ability to rapidly retrieve documents and generate reports on the state of the quality operations is a key need for Aerospace and Defense. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
features advanced tools to search
for documents, create custom views
within the application, and generate
template or ad-hoc
reports. |
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