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Quality
Management Software Solutions
for Automotives |
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Companies
in the automotive industry
must adapt to changing customer
demands and a global competitive
market, but must also maintain
a high level of safety and
quality in their products.
Increasing overall productivity
and supplier quality, while
maintaining a strong quality
and safety system throughout
the supply chain is a growing
challenge for many automotive
companies. Many companies
are turning to Enterprise
systems to help achieve
this task.
Compliance to such initiatives
as ISO
9000, ISO/TS 16949,
QS 9000 and ISO
14001 is a crucial step
for automotive manufacturers.
Maintaining this level of
quality down the supply
chain is a growing challenge
facing the automotive industry,
and EtQ can help achieve
this goal. EtQ's
Quality Management System
is not only able to integrate
with external business systems,
but can also push/pull data
from suppliers to involve
the supply chain in the
overall process. This increased
visibility has made efforts
to maintain a level of quality
throughout the business.
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Challenges
Facing the Automotive Industry |
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Collaborative,
Enterprise Environment
Large automotive 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 automotive
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 within the automotive
industry. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
features advanced tools to search
for documents, create custom views
within the application, and generate
template or ad-hoc
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