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I already own an APQP software package which generates a Design FMEA (DFMEA), Process FMEA (PFMEA) and Control Plan for my products and processes. Why should I consider Quality Plus™?
The best reason for considering Quality Plus™ is the improved quality and usefulness of its output in improving your company’s profitability through better product designs and processes.
The main objective of the typical APQP software package on the market today is to provide the user with digital forms which meet the documentation requirements of the various quality standards and allow easy retrieval and storage. The advantage of these packages is that they are more efficient to use than Excel spreadsheets because of the lookup tables that are normally provided to assist in the filling out the forms. In some cases, graphic representation of numerical data such as RPN numbers is provided. Unfortunately, the documents are treated as stand alone objectives and there is typically minimal interaction between the documents other than the exchange of process flow information between the Process FMEA (PFMEA) and Control Plan. In a few instances, some APQP software houses have added additional links but in the majority of these cases the additional links are incorrect and actually hurt the implementation of an effective APQP System.
Unlike the typical APQP software package whose main objective is to produce digital forms, Quality Plus™ Software's goal is to help companies improve their product designs and processes. In addition to generating the required APQP documentation faster than competing software packages generate it, Quality Plus™ Software is designed to aid companies in performing a wide variety of day-to-day tasks. Company’s which own Quality Plus™ Software can perform field failure root cause analysis, defect root cause analysis and design change cost and impact analysis in a matter of minutes if not seconds. Quality Plus™ Software is able to do accomplish these tasks and others like it because the level of information integration within the database far exceeds any other APQP software package on the market today.