Meeting the Global Challenge for Quality

Manufacturers today face enormous quality challenges from both a program design and execution perspective. Global competition makes it necessary to continually engage in manufacturing excellence and continuous improvement initiatives to remain best-in-class, achieve regulatory compliance and maintain economic viability.

Apriso’s FlexNet^® Quality is built upon an adaptive operations execution platform that functions as a Quality Management System.  Multiple Quality Assurance components have been brought together, including planning, execution and containment management, to deliver a collaborative, real-time quality solution.  FlexNet Quality has embedded integration points to existing ERP systems, such as those provided by SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others. Apriso’s Quality solution functions as an enterprise system to establish policies, execute tasks and review results for improved overall quality metrics.

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Alternatively, it is possible to manage your overall Quality Assurance program within your existing ERP system, utilizing FlexNet Quality as an execution-only program, maximizing the reach of your ERP down to the shop floor. Referred to as FlexNet Quality Execution, this product can be specifically tailored to meet your exact quality program execution requirements.

FlexNet Quality provides full visibility, traceability and containment management capabilities into each corner of your manufacturing and warehouse operations. This system provides the ability to take swift, preemptive and corrective actions to:

1. Enable Six Sigma implementation, including DMAIC and SPC initiatives
2. Support Lean Manufacturing programs through waste and variability minimization
3. Provide real-time, actionable feedback capable of improving overall quality metrics
4. Achieve a consistent rollout of quality standards from individual plants to global operations
5. Contain potential quality issues before they become widespread to save time, effort and resources
6. Prepare Quality Inspection Plans to be highly adaptive based on a wide variety of production criterion

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FlexNet Statistical Process Control (SPC) provides the capabilities to perform complex statistical calculations as part of your overall quality program, seamlessly embedding these metrics within quality processes to provide meaningful results.

Learn more about…

1. FlexNet Quality Planning
2. FlexNet Quality Execution System (QES)
3. FlexNet Quality Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Benefits

• Real-time visibility to quality noncompliance
• Decrease cycle times - fewer rework processes
• Support Six Sigma, the DMAIC process and SPC programs
• Improve capacity utilization
• Reduce COGS through effective raw materials management
• Automate quality validation and reporting
• Address regulatory compliance initiatives