FlexNet Containment Manager

Identify.  Isolate.  Hold.  Take Action.

Global manufacturing companies have long considered quality to be critical for long-term business success.  For a manufacturing plant and its extended supply chain, two quality components must be equally considered:  build the product right the first time, and if a quality issue occurs, contain it quickly to minimize cost, disruption and damage to your brand.  Once a quality problem is identified, all affected goods must be properly located and contained – regardless of where they are in the manufacturing process.

As an extension of the FlexNet® Operations Execution System (OES), FlexNet Containment Manager improves operations performance by reducing the risk and impact from an ‘out-of-spec’ component or non-conformance quality event.  FlexNet Containment Manager quickly, easily and cost effectively identifies and isolates all effected materials, Work-in-Process (WIP), and finished goods across your operations, allowing you to take action and avoid costly disruptions.

Leveraging a Unified Data Model for Operations Execution

The FlexNet Suite of applications are built on a single unified data model, so each application instantly shares information without performing periodic reconciliations or establishing and maintaining complex Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

A unified data model provides dock-to-dock traceability and genealogy.  FlexNet Containment Manager leverages this data to precisely identify suspect goods within raw materials, Work in Process and Finished Goods. Enforce a Hold across operations, from shipping to production (WIP) to receiving so suspect goods are never used.

A resulting benefit is immediacy of response to alerts and trigger events, accelerating containment processes, compressing the timeframe for identification and isolation of suspected defective goods from weeks to minutes.  Other benefits include:

• Improve customer satisfaction
• Maintain brand integrity
• Minimize production and customer disruptions
• Contain the impact from a non-conformance event quickly, regardless of the location within your plant operations
• Quickly identify, isolate, hold and take action on all suspected goods with ‘out-of-spec’ quality items or processes
• Efficiently provides information required by internal quality systems or processes, such as CAPA, and external regulatory agencies
• Reduce warranty, labor and inventory costs
• Lower the total cost of quality