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  APQP/PPAP  
  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.  
     
 
Challenges   Our Solution offering
Ever increasing demands from Customers with varied expectations – Difficult to effectively and inexpensively meet Customer-specific compliance needs
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
 
 
Extremely complex to track, manage and monitor status of projects within a portfolio of concurrent programs across multiple customers
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
 
 
A disconnect between process/procedures and execution -Regulatory and customer audits are very challenging and time consuming
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
Integrated configuration management
 
 
Tedious to manually follow all mandatory steps of product development
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.
 
 
Maintaining end to end traceability for a part is extremely difficult
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
 
 
Too much time spent on mundane, repetitive tasks
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
 
 
Managing changes across the supply chain is extremely difficult in a concurrent program scenario
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
 
 
Lack of control, heavy information loss because most operations are performed through Excel files and emails
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
 
 
A critical need to be driven towards continuous process improvement
Model and Configure Process
Publish Process- Implement and execute
Analyze (SPC, Metrics and Measurements)
Analyze Risks and failures – Improve (Optimization, controls and action plans)
 
 
Difficulty in gaining
multi-dimensional insight into operations in order to enable effective and proactive decision making
Status Tracking - By Program, project, Customer,Part, people in the team etc.
Performance Tracking – By part, Resource, Portfolio, Process
Hit/Miss analysis
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