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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 5:15:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Long-time quality management software provider IQS extends the data from its core application to mobile devices, allowing production workers to catch problems before they leave the bay doors. |
| Keywords: | IQS, quality management, quality inspection, supplier compliance, parts information, product defects, product quality, warranty claims, handheld devices, real-time quality data |
Aiming to enhance manufacturers' real-time quality management efforts, enterprise quality and compliance management software provider IQS has announced an integrated application to provide workers with up-to-date inspection data on various suppliers and multiple products during the parts receiving process. Announced at the Automotive Industry Action Group's annual AutoTech conference in Detroit last week, which this year focused on collaboration among competing supply chain partners, the Mobile Inspection application ties together IQS' core quality software with handheld hardware devices to provide the most current inspection data from a bevy of suppliers and to alert shop floor personnel to the presence of nonconforming parts or those otherwise not up to spec. Using the Mobile Inspection application, workers with handheld devices can scan a part and have its product characteristic data compared against current specifications and inspection rules stored in the IQS application. If a nonconformance is identified, the supplier can be notified with the appropriate details in real time, and issues can be resolved in a much timelier manner than with manual processes, the company said. [Click to continue] |
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