Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

The TIPQA Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) Module allows companies to produce an effective product quality plan prior to launch. APQP helps track conceptual drawings, design verification, tool calibration and tolerances, raw materials needed for production, and process flow of each product or subcomponent to ensure quality at every stage of development.

Audit Management

The TIPQA Audit Management Module supports all internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with ISO, MIL Standard and other regulatory requirements. Within this module, you can establish any number of audit types and build criteria with weighting factors. Once established, appropriate quality assurance audit schedules can be generated. The system will then provide real-time tracking of audit completions. The Audit Management Module documents the history of quality assurance audits as they are accomplished and records any corrective actions associated with those audits.

Learn more about how this quality assurance software module supports the entire audit management process.

Change Management

The TIPQA Change Management module allows for automated change approvals across departments and facilities to minimize disruption and maintain tight control over operations. Eliminate the need for homegrown or paper-based change requests and directly link approvals with the TIPQA Document Management and Manufacturing Planning modules. TIPQA Change Management allows users to manage all change records from inception to verification in a single integrated solution with predictable results.

Complaint Handling

TIPQA provides a comprehensive customer complaint handling system. Two versions are provided within the software suite: standard (appropriate for all non-medical manufacturers) and medical (designed to meet the specifications of the MedWatch FDA 3500A report which can be produced on demand). Both versions automate the entire complaint handling workflow from complaint receipt through final resolution and closure. And they are fully integrated with the nonconformance and corrective action modules to:

• minimize data input
• control and sequence task assignments
• enhance reporting capabilities

Learn more about how this quality assurance software module supports all aspects of complaint handling.

Corrective Action

TIPQA provides an automated process for resolving quality problems with a formal, closed-loop, corrective action / preventative action system. This comprehensive module documents the history of corrective actions from request through follow-up and closure. It includes the Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS). An automatic e-mail capability provides notifications when corrective actions are:

• coming due for response
• overdue for response
• completed

These e-mail notifications can be escalated up the management chain as needed to ensure prompt completion of corrective actions.

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Document Management

The TIPQA Document Management Module provides an automated and secure approach for the dissemination of documents, as well as other files imported into TIPQA. Users can establish and maintain revision control, automate approval routings and release notifications. The Document Management Module provides a central storage point for all controlled documents, as well as any revisions for access, archiving, backup, etc. It also provides the ability to establish automated document review schedules, as well as controlling restricted and unrestricted documents based on type. The complete document lifecycle, from the initial creation through obsolescence, can be automated, controlled and secured.

Failure, Mode, and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

The TIPQA Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Module allows companies to review components, assemblies, and sub-assemblies prior to manufactured completion in order to identify potential failures, and highlights the associated cause and effects. FMEA points out deficiencies in a product or process and identifies issues for further investigation or action. Using a task planning grid, the FMEA module looks at each failure and assigns a Risk Priority taking into account the severity level, the detection level, and the number of failed occurrences. This Risk Priority helps stop the cycle of reactive quality management and allows businesses to make better operational decisions.

Gage and Tool

The TIPQA Gage and Tool Module automates procedures for calibrating and tracking tools and gages. Users can scan bar-coded serial numbers on tools and gages as well as employee ID numbers to locate, issue, return, calibrate and report on tools and gages. In addition, the software ensures that tools are prevented from being used that are due for calibration. Included is an inventory control system that enables the tracking of consumable materials.

Learn more about how this quality assurance software module supports the entire gage and tool management process.

In-Process Inspection

The TIPQA In-process Inspection Module simplifies the entire inspection process. It is used to enter and maintain inspection and test criteria for all processed parts. A complete online history of inspection and test results at the part number or part number/part revision level is visible within the module. You can create user-defined inspection types that control information requirements and use customized pop-ups within inspection types to capture unique information for departments and/or customers.

Learn more about how this quality assurance software module supports the entire inspection management process.

Receiving Inspection

The TIPQA Receiving Inspection Module enables all receiving inspection data to be recorded in real time. With inspection information entirely online, results can be viewed by other departments such as purchasing, quality assurance, and engineering. This module is highly configurable to conform to your organization’s established standard procedures.

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Risk Management

The TIPQA Risk Management Module allows companies to increase awareness of risk across the enterprise, as well as the supply chain, and effectively triage change to minimize defects and maximize opportunities. TIPQA helps companies identify, assess, and control risk across the complete product lifecycle. Users can create a risk matrix that identifies the probability, severity, and mitigating actions for each risk.

Serialized Test & Inspection

The TIPQA Serialized Test and Inspection Module automates the inspection of all traceable items. Operators can:

• manually enter or scan bar-coded serial and part numbers as well as other traceable items
• select user-defined defect codes
• enter other relevant inspection results

This information is aggregated together into the as-built configuration record that includes all traceable items. A final inspection / device approval step is performed before the part is moved to stock. This ensures that all traceable component information is recorded and that no exceptions exist such as open nonconformances.

Learn more about how this quality assurance software module supports the entire configuration and traceability management process.

Shop Floor Execution (SFE)

TIPSFE provides a more granular approach to manufacturing by granting complete visibility into what is happening on the shop floor. TIPSFE is used by manufacturers to improve operational efficiency on the shop floor by tracking the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. The software provides companies with real-time information that can be shared across the enterprise about work-in-process and allows teams to communicate for better control over manufacturing operations. TIPSFE provides a significant competitive advantage that can greatly increase a company’s profitability and can deliver a significant return on investment year after year.

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Statistical Process Control

Statistical Process Control automates the measurement data collection in manufacturing or engineering operations. SPC users enter inspection measurements on-line as the readings are taken or can be entered after the fact. Results are immediately available for on-line viewing by other departments. SPC eliminates the possibility of lost paperwork, improves accuracy by validating data entry against master records, and speeds the processing of process data.

Supplier Quality Collaboration

TIP Supplier Quality Collaboration consists of an integrated set of modules that enable you to consistently rely on the quality of your suppliers’ products. The solution provides a single online repository in which to manage the complete quality lifecycle of both a manufacturer’s suppliers and sub-tier suppliers.

Learn more about how this quality assurance software module supports the entire supplier rating process.

Time & Temperature Controlled Materials Management (TCM)

The TIPQA TCM Module allows manufacturers the ability to optimize the shelf-life of high-performance materials, while maintaining a master record for each specific material within the system. Complete traceability and product genealogy is stored within the database and can be tracked in several user-defined ways. The module seamlessly integrates with inspection and shop floor operations to facilitate the successful production of critical time and temperature-controlled materials from procurement through allocation, cure, completion, and inspection.

Training Management

The TIPQA Training Management Module helps to ensure accurate recording of employee certifications and training. It enables you to define and track skill levels at both the organizational and employee level. This quality management solution module simplifies the assignment of employee skill levels for use across multiple modules. It provides an audit trail that identifies skill level assignment modifications by person and date. In addition, it provides automated early warning email notification to the employee and supervisor when skills with predetermined expiration dates are due for re-certification.

Learn more about how this quality assurance software module supports the entire training and skill management process.