The problem

Most quality systems record failure after it has happened. By the time the paperwork is right, the part is already scrap.

  • Drawings in a folder
  • Ballooning on a print
  • PFMEA template.xlsx
  • Control plan v7 FINAL.xlsx
  • FAI forms in Word
  • Gauge R&R by hand
  • Calibration spreadsheet
  • Approvals in an inbox
  • PPAP assembled the week it is duePPAP the week it is due

Quality is the one thing in a shop
that lives in twelve places

The answer

We found a better
place to start.

Start from the drawing. Everything a quality system needs is already on it — so the whole package is derived from it, not typed out beside it.Start from the drawing. Everything a quality system needs is already on it.

Read, not retyped

Upload the drawing and every callout comes off it with its limits and its place on the sheet.Every callout comes off the drawing with its limits and its place on the sheet.

Derived, not duplicated

The control plan comes from the PFMEA, the PFMEA from the flow. Nothing is typed twice.

Proved, not promised

Every reading is stamped with the revision and the gauge it was taken on.

What you get

Everything APQP asks for,
in one place.

Not a folder of templates. A working system, every document live and connected to the others.

  • Characteristics

    Ballooned, on the sheet

  • Process flow

    The route, and what it proves

  • PFMEA

    Generated, then yours to rate

  • Control plan

    Derived from the PFMEA

  • Gauge studies

    MSA, run and calculated

  • Capability

    Honestly fitted, never assumed

  • Inspection

    On the floor, on a tablet

  • First article

    Every characteristic, one part

  • Work orders

    Serial traceability, end to end

  • Calibration

    Machines, gauges, maintenanceMachines and gauges

  • Suppliers

    Approvals and flow-down

  • PPAP submission

    Signed, sent and answered

On the floor

Engineers author it.
Operators run it.

An inspector types a number and presses Enter. The verdict appears before it saves.

A reading taken on a gauge that had lapsed cannot pass a part, or condemn one.

The method

APQP and PPAP,
end to end.

APQP

Advanced product quality planning

Decide how the part will be made, find how it could go wrong, and control the things that hold it — before the first one is cut.

PPAP

Production part approval process

The package that proves it: the plan, the analysis, the measurements and the first article, signed and sent as one submission.

  • One customer
    cannot see another
  • Evidence is
    written once
  • Every change
    is recorded
  • Your drawings
    stay yours