Advanced Product Quality Planning Software

CEBOS' Advanced Product Quality Planning software was designed to manage and automate tasks relating to completion of advanced product quality planning projects. It's an Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) software product information library and planning system that gives the user quick access to all key products and the ability to leverage existing like product's process flows, FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), control plans, operator/work instructions, check sheets, and more. Since these documents are automatically linked, huge time savings are realized as changes are automatically published to each affected document. MQ1 is always in compliance with the latest requirements as reporting and process requirements were modeled after the AIAG pronouncements. Eliminates manual administration and distribution of documents by electronically automating the entire document management process, including: editing, routing, approval and withdrawal. The electronic document management software system is extremely versatile yet incredibly user friendly... all while complying in all respects to major quality requirements.

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Benefits of CEBOS' APQP Software

• Eliminate the time to run changes through product planning documentation with completely linked flows, FMEAs, control plans, operator/work instructions, checksheets, drawings and more
  
  
• Easily manage customer required formats with the ability to create custom reports
  
  
• CEBOS' APQP software allows reusable set-ups for initial sample inspection reports (ISIR's), operator/work instructions, and PPAP submissions, minimizing the time to complete and manage administrative paperwork
  
  
• Manages all documents and tasks in the APQP and PPAP processes, allowing the team to focus on customer related matters
  
  
• Know which tasks are open and closed at-a-glace for all projects, minimizing project management time using CEBOS' MQ1 APQP software
  
  
• Improved communication with the customer, increasing customer satisfaction by reducing errors and redundant conversations
  
  
• Manage changes to customer’s statement of requirements in a timely manner, reducing the cost of non-reimbursable charges
  
  
• Find documents all in one place, minimizing time to locate relevant documents
  
  
• Reporting capabilities allow for graphical and numerical presentation of key product information
  
  
• Completely automate all aspects of the engineering change request process
  

Features

• Create, maintain and leverage libraries of characteristics, failure modes, and control items for re-use
  
  
• Automatic update to all parts when a library (characteristic, failure mode or control) item is changed
  
  
• Automatic updating of a failure mode's RPN directly from a corrective action using the CEBOS' Problem Solver module
  
  
• Electronic routing and approval for all documentation with automated reminders, reducing the time to approve documentation
  
  
• Maintenance of all documentation history for a complete audit trail for customer and pronouncement audits
  
  
• Automated creation of process/design FMEAs and control plans for significant reduction in document creation time
  
  
• Integration with Documents, Supplier Management, Gage and Maintenance systems, minimizing redundancy and reducing session and project time
  
  
• Store and manage all customer and internal correspondence, facilitating communication between teams
  
  
• Built in mechanism managing revision levels, ensuring that the team is always using the latest revision level
  
  
• Visual operator instructions, reducing miscommunication in written work instructions
  
  
• Reusable library of processes and operations, minimizing the time it takes to complete process flow, FMEA and control plans
  
  
• Disciplined contract review checklists ensure that customer requirements are satisfied
  
  
• Linked documents that are automatically updated upon changes, significantly reducing time to complete PPAP administrative paperwork
  
  
• Project management of APQP projects can be assigned and automatically managed, ensuring tasks are followed up timely and products enter into production faster
  
  
• Creates PPAP documents in AIAG approved format
  
  
• Manage product characteristics that can be integrated with MQ1 Data Collect Module, collect characteristic data to document product conformance
  
  
• Definition of product characteristics that can be integrated with the MQ1 Data Collect Module, enabling automated and linked inspection plan for on-line data collection, SPC and corrective action creation
  
  
• Integrated incoming/outgoing e-mail capabilities, facilitating and recording communication with customers and suppliers on critical decisions
  
  
• Enables an audit trail of customer requirements to product characteristics, ensuring products are being created to customer required specifications
  
  
• Automates numerous processes to complete administrative paperwork related to the PPAP and APQP process, significantly reducing the time for completion
  
  
• Ability to convert documents to PDF and to limit the “Save As” or printing of documents
  
  

Many of the users who deploy CEBOS' advanced product quality planning software suite, which includes CEBOS' comprehensive FMEA software, also deploy one or several other CEBOS modules including CEBOS' gage calibration software, for those that need to control their measurement devices, and audit management software, for managing all types of audits (e.g., internal, quality, process, product, etc.). Many businesses simply use CEBOS' overall quality management software suite to manage all aspects of compliance. 

For those companies that are required to comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act, CEBOS' comprehensive Sarbanes Oxley software (which includes CEBOS' SOX software) not only covers all aspects of compliance, it also significantly reduces the time to manage compliance. Click here to review a list of CEBOS modules and functionality.

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