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You claim that Quality Plus™ is faster than competing APQP software packages in generating APQP documents like the Design FMEA (DFMEA), Process FMEA (PFMEA) and Control Plan and that its documents are easier to maintain. How can this be?
In products of intermediate complexity, success or failure of the product can be based on 300 or more specifications being set correctly in the design process and properly manufactured to in the manufacturing process. When the System FMEA (SFMEA), Design FMEA (DFMEA) and Process FMEA (PFMEA) are properly done for these products it is not uncommon for these documents to be 150 pages or more. Competing APQP software packages on the market use editing features which are based on Excel style copy, cut and paste technology. Documents of this length simply are difficult to create and maintain when they are stored in database systems that rely on digital forms with copy, cut and paste technology.
Quality Plus™ solves the creation problem by providing a cloning utility which writes the various APQP documents for you. You tell Quality Plus™ how the product is supposed to be used, the features it is supposed to have and where it is going to be manufactured and Quality Plus™ creates the appropriate documentation. Due to the extensive integration between the various documents and the master editing tools within Quality Plus™ Software, it is very easy to maintain the documents once they have been edited.