Quality
Quality Management - Quality Systems
Improve your product quality with a better Quality Management System
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Ekho Quality provides sophisticated capability to manage production and quality specifications at the levels of product, plant, machine or process, and customer.
Actual data can be captured manually or automatically from relevant operations across the enterprise, from raw materials to finished products.
Full product genealogy allows you to trace problems back to the origin, whether it is a specific machine, shift, supplier, shipper, batch, etc.
Ekho Quality provides full support for version management, where prior versions of specifications or standards are maintained with the associated date range.
Configurable alarms allow you to notify or alert appropriate personnel when warning or alarm levels are detected.
Ekho Quality can be used to produce Certificates of Analysis, based on customer specified requirements.
Customers Use Ekho Quality for:
- Tracking detailed product specifications
- Tracking detailed production or process specifications
- Maintaining full version control, by tracking all changes and applicable dates
- Maintaining specifications down to the product, machine, or customer level.
Collecting Actual Results
- Manual or Automatic data capture
- Interfaces to lab systems and to on machine measurement systems to capture continuous or discrete data
- Data captured all the way from raw materials to finished products
- Redirect sub specification products to acceptable destinations
- Early detection of problems relating to product or process quality, performance deterioration, or stoppages.
Reporting Actuals vs Plan
- Complete set of user customizable reports and displays for comparative data
- Alerts and alarms can be triggered based on deviation from standards
- Automatic generation of Certificates of Analysis per customer specifications
- Correlate data from historian for related operations.
Genealogy Tracking
- Full traceability from raw materials to finished product
- Applies to both process and product genealogy
- Quick access to data related to deviations or exceptions.
Continuous Improvement
- Provide a platform for the implementation of continuous improvement programs
- Supports initiatives for Lean, Six Sigma, and TQM
- Provide a toolset for analysis of profitability and efficiency
Benefits to the Quality User Include:
- Improved visibility into operations
- Tighter control over quality and performance
- Improved product and process quality
- Full visibility of product and process genealogy
- Early detection of product or process problems
- Improved customer service
- Reduced quality issues with finished goods
- Reduced returns and claims
- Immediate access to data relating to stoppages, slowdowns, quality deterioration, delays, etc.
- Early identification of problematic products, machines or processes
- Automatic document control
- Automated reporting and generation of COA’s
- Reduction in errors associated with manual data capture and tabulation