Key Features

Function / Benefit

Fully-Integrated Quality Management System

• Provides one common quality system that improves efficiency and control of the quality workflow process, eliminating duplicate data entry, improving accuracy and timeliness of information handoff between job functions.
• Displaces redundant QA point applications to reduce IT administrative costs and improve data consistency

On-Line Enterprise Visibility & Traceability

• Provides a “paperless“ quality system making it easy to track material flow from receipt, through manufacturing, to final product shipment.
• Improves communication and information flow between procurement, engineering, manufacturing, customer service, suppliers, auditors and customers
• Speeds up problem identification and resolution
• Tracks and reports on all touch points throughout the manufacturing and support processes, eliminating the paper chase at time of audit, defect detection or recall
• Identifies the current location of materials and who has what information
• All inspection instructions are maintained on-line with graphics, video or other support

Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Solution

• Eliminates the need for custom programming and provides a system with much lower maintenance costs than traditional homegrown or legacy quality systems.
• Accelerates time to value with predictable results

Customizable

• Easily Configurable to Meet Enterprise-Wide QA Requirements without programming
• Supports highly configurable user defined codes by document type

Real-time Quality Knowledge Base

• Provides an enterprise wide real-time system with complete up-to-date quality information to help make smarter business decisions.

100% Web-Based System

• Drastically reduces the amount of administrative time and resources to maintain a quality system.  Provides accessibility for remote employees, suppliers and customers

Real-Time Analysis & Reporting

• Provides accurate, consolidated quality information for real-time analysis and reporting.
• Complete Device History Record

Improve Supplier Management

• Provides a system to better manage suppliers by providing accurate and timely supplier ratings to help reduce defects and improve supplier performance.
• With the Supplier Portal capability, clients stream line communication with suppliers via the Web.
• Closed loop collaboration with supplier

Customer Responsive System

• Improves customer responsiveness by reducing defects and lowering manufacturing cycle times.

Multiple Business Units

• Allows multiple business units a system that blends corporate standards and unique quality needs of a site or business unit, accelerating the implementation of common processes and systems across the enterprise in a centralized database architecture.

Compliance & Regulation

ISO 9000
AS9100
QS9000
FDA Regulation
FDA 21 CFR Part 11
MIL Standards

• Help meet compliance requirements for ISO 9000
• Help meet compliance Requirements for AS9100
• Help meet compliance Requirements for QS9100
• Help meet FDA requirements
• Help meet FDA requirement
• Help meet MIL Standard requirements

Complete and Protected Audit Trail

• Tracks and reports on all touch points throughout the inspection, manufacturing and support processes driven by satisfying audit requirements  or to eliminate the paper chase at time of audit, defect detection or recall.

Automatic E-Mail Notification & escalation of Required Actions

• Automates communications and enforces accountability by providing visibility with escalation for critical tasks throughout the quality process

Integrated Problem Reports

• Gage and Tool system is integrated with In-process Inspection, Receiving Inspection and Nonconformance modules
• Enables a common system for production and tool problem reporting

Seamless Communication with Host ERP/MES and External System

• Interfaces with host ERP/MES system to transfer Receiver, Item Master, Vendor Master, and other key data to TIPQA™
• Interfaces with host ERP/MES system to update material status and MRP disposition, as well as other key data from TIPQA™ to the host system
• Supports On-line Detailed Data Query with Import/Export Capability

Open Database Architecture

• Open Oracle or SQL architecture allows easy access to all quality data using your ODBC compliant report writers and browsers
• Relational design and sophisticated set-up parameters offer extensive flexible options to shape your business rules

Flexible Implementation Options

• Product supports any phased implementation plan; i.e., all modules can be implemented in any combination or one at a time depending on customer requirements.