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APQP/PPAP |
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We offer a powerful, fully integrated, web-based solution to automate all facets of APQP/PPAP compliant product development, connecting people (stakeholders playing different roles in your organization) with systems (ERP, CAD tools etc) in the context of your core collaborative processes. |
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| Challenges |
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Our Solution offering |
| Ever increasing demands from Customers with varied expectations – Difficult to effectively and inexpensively meet Customer-specific compliance needs |
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| Configure and change data capture forms, processes, reports, deliverables, dashboards for each customer on-demand |
| Create a truly agile solution – Pick and choose NPD activities as applicable to each customer/product |
| Generate automatically, customer-specific APQP/PPAP deliverables |
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| Extremely complex to track, manage and monitor status of projects within a portfolio of concurrent programs across multiple customers |
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| Integrated portfolio/program management |
| Create and publish program plans – Optionallyintegrate with Excel and MS Project |
| Enact and execute tasks in a plan automatically - Track status with complete audit trial automatically |
| A rich suite of built in powerful drillable reports to track program status, quality, cost |
| Built-in Analytics to proactively analyze portfolioperformance, resource performance |
| Automatically link to suppliers – supplier qualitymanagement |
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| A disconnect between process/procedures and execution -Regulatory and customer audits are very challenging and time consuming |
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| A seamless link between process/procedure and execution |
| Policies and procedures automatically drive operations, work instructions, checklists and actions |
| Extensive audit trial – who/when/what/why |
| Configuration of formats and contents of statutory and customer specific deliverables |
| Automated document control and versioning |
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| Integrated configuration management |
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| Tedious to manually follow all mandatory steps of product development |
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| Intrinsic support to automate all key functions of APQP - PFD, PFMEA, DFMEA, Control Plan, |
| DFA, DFM |
| Rich user interface to perform all the functions |
| Easy reuse of data from past projects |
| Automatic view best of practices, lessons learnt etc. |
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| Maintaining end to end traceability for a part is extremely difficult |
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| Active linkage between Special characteristics/DFMEA, Process/PFMEA, and a total cross reference of each item with the control plan – all completely automated |
| Intrinsic mechanisms to define and track action plans for controls defined in the control plan |
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| Too much time spent on mundane, repetitive tasks |
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| Drastically reduces time spent on repetitive tasks – focus more on innovation. |
| Aids creation of powerful knowledge repositories |
| Allows for configuration to review and approve data before updating repository |
| Provides complete reuse from knowledge repository |
| Automatic loading of data from past projects based on the context of user operation |
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| Managing changes across the supply chain is extremely difficult in a concurrent program scenario |
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| Built in capability to effectively manage change |
| Manage change based on category, priority and criticality |
| Perform impact analysis on change requests |
| Internal mechanisms to approve changes |
| Powerful components to create change management worksheet |
| Automatic rationalization and program update plan based on change |
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| Lack of control, heavy information loss because most operations are performed through Excel files and emails |
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| System ideally suited for knowledge workers - A flexible framework to enable a collaborative, cross functional style of functioning |
| A very potent system included to enable collaboration between people |
| Automatic tagging of Collaboration threads tasks that can be referred to in the future thereby ensuring zero loss of information |
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| A critical need to be driven towards continuous process improvement |
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| Model and Configure Process |
| Publish Process- Implement and execute |
| Analyze (SPC, Metrics and Measurements) |
| Analyze Risks and failures – Improve (Optimization, controls and action plans) |
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Difficulty in gaining
multi-dimensional insight into operations in order to enable effective and proactive decision making |
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| Status Tracking - By Program, project, Customer,Part, people in the team etc. |
| Performance Tracking – By part, Resource, Portfolio, Process |
| Hit/Miss analysis |
| Dimension browser |
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