The quality assurance module provides the capability to access, either directly or remotely, the centrally held ‘single-source’ item specification data using the latest mobile technologies. This eliminates paperwork, administration, duplication and the risk of using previous versions of specification data. Through this remote accessibility, quality assurance can be applied in many areas and functions including: goods intake, recipe control, production line setup, operational QC plant or line checks and intermediate, work in progress and finished goods assessment.

Material data is held within Creations and can be reviewed by many functions, for example: product development for selecting materials with a good quality ‘history, procurement to review supplier quality performance and number of ‘rejects, or technical and to determine process capability.

The system offers the collection and analysis of data to provide full traceability through manufacture, including:

Virtually instant traceability

• Forward tracing from raw material to finished product
• Backward tracing from finished product to raw material
• Tracing of intermediates in either direction
• Utilisation of barcodes and RFID for ease of use
• Elimination of manual data collection

Features

• Single centralised source of material quality data
• ‘Remote’ wireless accessibility and data input for auditing and quality monitoring
• QA records for materials, processes and packaging
• Shift / daily / weekly quality non-conformance reports
• Permanent record of quality checks with full audit history, including corrective actions
• Forward / backward tracking of material movements during processing

Benefits

• Optimised product development through visibility of QA data
• Automatic updating of specification at remote QA locations to prevent use of obsolete data
• Immediate reporting of quality errors reduces waste or scrap and minimises cost of quality
• Process and procedure fault analysis and reporting enables correction of adverse trends
• Rapid traceability of components reduces exposure and optimises incident management