Digitize Your Product Quality Planning Process for Operational Excellence

Manufacturers in all industries rely on advanced quality planning processes to standardize product quality management. These processes allow you to meet customer demands, maintain regulatory requirements, and compete on a global scale. Most of the time, you’re obligated to follow strict procedures to comply with customer requirements, but does the effort really help your operational performance? Or is it just a check-in-the-box paperchase?

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The Problem with Paper Processes

You’ve seen it. Your plant gets hit with an audit or recall and your quality department scrambles to track and trace all the pieces of your complex operation.

Why the mad dash? Because you may need to trace defects or issues back to source material to avoid scrapping a high volume of finished goods. This affects your on-time delivery, costing you money, and lowers your supplier rating, costing your reputation.

Why is it so hard to trace back to source material? Because it’s a manual process of multiple people producing multiple documents in multiple formats. Paper- and spreadsheet-based processes are time-consuming, inefficient, and inaccurate.

These error-prone processes make coordination with multiple plants challenging and consistency across multiple countries impossible. Without a single source of truth connecting your whole operation, you’re operating blindly with constantly out-of-date data and a chain of communication that doesn’t connect.

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“It’s becoming increasingly impossible to use traditional means to manage quality and regulatory documentation, especially for highly regulated manufacturers. Archaic paper-based approaches, manual processes, and disparate systems cultivate vast inefficiencies as organizations struggle to use the right document versions, stay up to date with changing regulatory requirements, streamline document review and approval processes, and ultimately achieve operational excellence through optimizing document management processes.”

Excerpt from Paul Leavoy blog, LNS Research

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EASY TO SEE

HARDER TO SEE

The cost of quality begins to accumulate from the very beginning of a project.

Inspection Costs Testing Costs

Recalls Rejects Waste Returns Rework

Lost Customer

Expensive Overtime

Field Repairs

Late Paperwork

Expedite Costs

Charge Backs

Excess Inventory

Unused Capacity

Redesign Costs

Customer Complaints

Smart Manufacturing Provides a Better Way…

Digitizing quality planning closes the loop and provides a number of benefits, helping businesses like yours to:

Go paperless
Govern operational behavior
Reduce manual effort
Enhance accuracy
Decrease scrap costs

Lower the cost of goods sold
Reduce customer rejects
Achieve a higher supplier rating
Increase perfect order performance
Streamline audits from days to hours

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Digitizing with the Right Partner

Joining the modern era of smart manufacturing by digitizing quality planning requires choosing the right partner and platform. Plex was purpose-built by manufacturers for manufacturers. With Plex, all data is stored in a single, secure database. Documents become online forms so that everyone can collaborate using the same real-time data. And sharing that data with customers or other stakeholders is as easy as flipping a switch.

Operationalize your quality with:

‹ A single source of truth that reduces errors
‹ Built-in error-proofing that reduces the cost of quality
‹ Quality compliance that results in quality performance

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ABOUT PLEX

Plex, by Rockwell Automation, is a leader in cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions, empowering the world’s manufacturers to make awesome products. Our platform gives manufacturers the ability to connect, automate, track, and analyze every aspect of their business to drive transformation. The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ includes solutions for manufacturing execution (MES), ERP, quality, supply chain planning and management, asset performance management, production monitoring, process automation and analytics to connect people, systems, machines and supply chains, enabling them to lead with precision, efficiency and agility. To learn more, visit plex.rockwellautomation.com

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