FlexNet Quality Planning

Manufacturers who strive to operate Lean with Just in Time, sequenced material flows are calibrating and orchestrating to narrow windows of time, making them fanatical about process delays – for good reason.  Unfortunately, when managing your quality program within a centrally organized enterprise application such as ERP, delays can occur.  An extra 10 minutes per process can add up quickly after 100 cycles.  Quality assurance programs with iterative, dynamic measurement and evaluation criteria can be particularly vexing, often requiring frequent, real time iterations of an Inspection Plan.

When Quality programs must perform and adapt in real-time, it makes a lot of sense to incorporate quality planning and inspection processes in a single, local application, rather than a remote program that may not be available 100% of the time.  It is in these instances where FlexNet^® Quality Planning can be a powerful application, shaving time from a process can give you back hours by the end of the week.

FlexNet Quality Planning shares the same business processes and database as the FlexNet platform, creating a collaborative manufacturing operations management solution.  FlexNet Quality delivers real-time performance to achieve highly efficient execution of your Quality planning and execution processes.  Operating at one location or many, across a single functional area or several, FlexNet Quality Planning lets you establish and maintain complex, iterative Quality Inspection Plan(s) that can be performed at the highest level of efficiency without disrupting operations or sequenced material flows.

Hear Rustam Sanaev, IT Operations Manager at British American Tobacco discuss how BAT handles quality inspection plans.

Benefits of FlexNet Quality Planning include:

• Minimizes shop floor operations disruptions through immediate inspection task generation
• Enforces inspections on the production line due to automated scheduling
• Reduces cost of quality generating less waste, with key capabilities in one system, one operational platform
• Conformity to ISO-2859, ISO-16949 and APQP standards facilitates standardized performance metrics for regulatory and KPI reporting
• Decreases cycle times through fewer rework processes, getting the job done right, the first time
• Increases capacity utilization and reduces capital expenditures with improved workflows

“Manufacturers must realize that a common model is essential to bind organizational quality realization processes that currently reside in numerous manufacturing and enterprise systems in order to bridge the gaps between quality planning and execution.”

Simon Jacobson, Research Analyst, AMR