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At-PQC™ you'll be pleased to find an expert that answers the phone to support your project and an extensive selection of quality control plans to operate and maintain a practical quality system that can achieve project goals.

If you have a mature business that provides quality products or services but you don't have a quality control plan to share with your Customers then you'll be very satisfied to find the resources to document your practices. If your business plan is to shift your paradigm from "old traditional" to "new modern" and compete with world-class performance then you'll be delighted to find extensive support and documentation that will help you achieve your project goals At-Practical Quality Control (sm).

- Efficient QMS™ -

eQMS software transforms any quality plan to a state-of-the-art quality control program that enables your existing employees to achieve compliance to any commercial or industry sponsored quality system standard. eQMS is an efficient quality program that is operated on the world-wide-web or your company's private network to reduce overhead expenses, simplify the business operation and/or achieve a QMS pedigree - or operate with software-based project management tools.

User-friendly point-and-click operation.

Efficient QMS™ quality system software was developed to eliminate undesirable overhead expenses and labor-intensive QMS system maintenance. If you're a small business with few employees that must compete with large businesses that have a certified quality system, please click here to learn more about the Efficient QMS™ software quality management system.

A QMS pedigree requires extensive resources and tools to achieve certification, and significant overhead to maintain the system for annual assessment. eQMS was designed to achieve QMS certification using existing employees to significantly cut and eliminate overhead expenses. Most business managers set a goal to increase revenues with a QMS pedigree but call upon their employees to implement and maintain a complex QMS standard with few tools to accomplish the task - like an unfunded mandate. All our Customers consider eQMS a formidable tool in their arsenal of business resources to facilitate Company policy and keep "things" under control.

Efficient QMS™ is a self-contained resource that's accessible on your internal network or over the internet. Users can login to mine the data, sign authorizations, do homework, complete unfinished tasks, quote from the manual or procedures, access drawings and work instructions and so much more - the office is always open and your business files are always handy...!

From the Quality Manager of Electro Energy Inc:
"Efficient QMS™ helped us achieve a 99% score from our certification audit and helped us maintain our QMS after being downsized. The Auditors from NSF-ISR remarked that our quality program was in their top ten list of best practices."

Efficient QMS(tm) is a solution for companies that must protect their existing business and desire to compete for more business with Customers that want their Suppliers or Contractors to have a QMS pedigree - or operate with software-based project management tools.

We have very carefully created a browser-based working environment for management of simple or complex quality systems using Efficient QMS™. We have succeeded in achieving the goal of operating a pedigree QMS without the need to hire additional personnel to maintain the QMS. In addition, eQMS Users are able to maintain a certified QMS when the business is victimized by down-sizing.

We designed Efficient QMS™ with emphasis on preserving the sanity of the quality manager, which always makes it easier on the Company - then we:
built-in a daily planner with reminder capability for everybody that can't remember everything they need to do,
enabled flexibility to add or remove categories for ERP capability,
enabled on-line editing and configuration management of all procedures and work instructions using Process Maker,
enabled transition to a paperless-process by converting almost any paper form to a database-process using Form Maker,
made it easy to navigate for all Users (its a web-based interface) - and we,
know we can't mention every feature - there are too many...

We invented Efficient QMS™ out of self-preservation and it has saved countless hours of labor and significantly improved the bottomline. User's intuitively navigate eQMS because it is browser-based and because it is so convenient to access QMS documents and forms after login. We recommend installation of eQMS on an external webhost to enable "road warriors" to access project records in realtime.

Click here for more information or click here for demo to vigorously experiment with eQMS.

We are proud Efficient QMS™ was chosen to support the quality improvement projects for the following services, businesses and agencies. Companies using eQMS have received pedigrees for ISO 9001, AS9100, AS9110 and Nadcap special processes:

Access Laser Company
Alto Aviation, MA (aircraft sound systems)
Arcadia Aerospace Industries Testimonial: "We went through our Nadcap audit for AQS and NDT/UT and we received no NCR's. The Auditor was very complimentary of our system, which is in no small part thanks to eQMS."
Avionics Mounts Inc.
axept Custom Engineering (MEMS)
Dynamic Paint Solutions
Dynamic Power LLC
Global Parts Inc.
K-TECHnologies Inc.
Ligi Tool and Engineering Inc.
McAllister Tool and Machine
Nee's Machine Inc.
Nomad Aviation Inc. Testimonial: "We passed our ISO 9001:2008 registration audit thanks to Efficient QMS...Thank you."
Sandia National Laboratories
Specialty Metals Corporation
Sustainable Energy Technologies
Theranos

Price: $697 includes ISO 9001 or AS9100C, AS9110A, AS9120A or AISC (other QMS systems available with prior notice).

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Efficient QMS™ is not pay-as-you-go software - no subscriptions - no per-User fees - no other expenses (that's refreshing!)

Evaluate eQMS to see how it can dramatically improve the efficiency of the quality program that you need to keep your Customers happy. Any size business (including a one, two or three person shop or "big business") can use eQMS to help make the sale to win new business or keep costs way down for existing business. You'll never have to say "I'll get back with you on that..." because all you have to do is login to demonstrate in realtime the Company's commitment to "quality".

You can populate eQMS with any management system - including standards like AS9003, AS9100, AS9110, AS9120, ASA-100, ISO 9001, ISO 15161, MIL-I-45208, MIL-Q-9858, FAA-PMA, NQA-1, FAA Repair Station, TS16949 - and non-standard management systems like Construction, Maintenance, Machine Shop, Engineering, Commercial, Civil, Government - any Customer flowdown quality program or voluntary quality management system!

How will your business spell relief?

Efficient QMS™

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At-PQC™ is an "open-book" website where you can research the entire content of all demonstration documents, which means you will never take a chance with our products and guarantees you will make a well-informed decision about the right tools for your project. You can tailor your improvement products according to the At-PQC™ license agreement to display your business name and logo because the files you download immediately after a transaction are fully editable in your MS Word or OpenOffice software program.

Your advantage with At-PQC™:

One key person on your team with a library of resources will make a difference in your business operation.

Quality Manager Responsibilities:

The Quality Manager is responsible for the administration of the Quality Plan and has the authority to manage all work affecting quality. The Quality Manager will provide leadership for the development, implementation, communication and maintenance of quality system policies and procedures for the Company according to the approved quality system. A primary goal is to achieve a high degree of joint ownership of quality and compliance strategies with all of the major operational stakeholders in the Company while addressing regulatory requirements in an effective, timely and responsible manner.

Responsibilities:

• Formulate and manage the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures and systems pertaining to the quality assurance and regulatory functions.

• Develop, implement, communicate and maintain a quality plan to bring the Company's Quality Systems and Policies into compliance with quality system requirements.

• Manage documentation related to Quality System guidelines.

• Quality Assurance project lead for cross-functional projects including determining QA timelines, plans and position strategies.

• Manage and maintain the quality aspects of the Design Control Program including but not limited to design input and output documentation, applicable risk analyses, verification and validation activities and formal design reviews.

• Provide leadership for developing and directing Quality Assurance and Quality improvement initiatives (Cost-of-Quality reductions, Audit system, CAPA system, etc.) for all products, processes and services.

• Manage and maintain the Company's internal quality audit program and assess improvement initiatives resulting from all Quality Audits - internal and external.

• Effectively interact with Production and Development teams to maintain product supply and help introduce new products.

• Manage training of all company personnel in the requirements, documentation and maintenance of the corporate Quality System.

• Manage and maintain the Company's quality inspection and product release programs for incoming and in-process materials and components, processes and finished goods.

• Establish an auditing program and lead compliance audits of third party suppliers, manufacturers and distributors.

• Report on timely basis to executive management on the performance of the quality system, any non-compliance issues and recommended actions.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of Quality Systems supervisory/management experience within a related industry.

• Experience interacting with regulatory authorities.

• Experience in quality management systems.

• Experience in quality system audits.

• Working knowledge of design control processes.

• Experience with statistical sampling plans and trending analyses.

• Knowledgeable about electronic data management.

• Professional certifications (e.g. American Society for Quality (ASQ), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) desirable).

Skills:

• Ability to lead projects and programs with a positive "Get It Done" attitude.

• Organized, attentive to detail and able to prioritize and handle multiple projects with competing deadlines.

• Works efficiently both on independent basis and as part of a team.

• Ability to deal effectively with all levels within the organization as well as with external parties, including regulatory bodies.

• Proven strong problem solving ability with attention to root cause.

• Maintains a personal and professional "continuous improvement" philosophy.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills.

The quality manager should be familiar with management tools for problem solving, process management and various metrics. Quality managers use problem solving tools to determine root causes and suggest solutions from various perspectives using data to make decisions.

Problem solving tools include:

1. The Seven Quality Tools using Pareto charts, cause and effect diagrams, flowcharts, control charts, check sheets, scatter diagrams and histograms.
2. Basic management and planning tools using Affinity diagrams, tree diagrams, process decision program charts, matrix diagrams, interrelationship digraphs, prioritization matrices and activity network diagrams.
3. Process improvement tools using root cause analysis, PDCA, six sigma DMAIC model, failure mode and effects analysis and statistical process control.
4. Innovation and creativity tools using creative decision making and problem solving techniques that include brainstorming, mind mapping, lateral thinking, critical thinking and design for six sigma.
5. Cost of Quality using prevention, appraisal, internal and external failure costs to suggest ways and means to improve the bottom line.

Process management tools include:

1. Planning and setting goals
2. Establishing controls
3. Monitoring and measuring performance
4. Documentation
5. Cycle-time reduction
6. Waste elimination
7. Theory of constraints for local vs system optimization and physical vs policy constraints that affect throughput
8. Elimination of special causes of variation
9. Maintaining improvements
10. Continuous improvement
11. Process mapping
12. Flowcharting
13. 5 S's
14. Just in time
15. Kanban
16. Value streams

Measurement, assessment and metric tools include:

1. Goal-question-metric modeling to identify when, what and how to measure projects and processes
2. Sampling techniques when appropriate
3. Statistical analysis to measure central tendency, dispersion and types of distributions to monitor processes and make data oriented decisions
4. Trend and pattern analysis to assess data-sets, graphs and charts for various cyclic, seasonal and environment trends and pattern shifts
5. Theory of variation to identify common and special causes of variation
6. Process capability using Cp and Cpk indices
7. Reliability and validity measurement theories using content, construct and criterion types of measures
8. Qualitative assessments using anecdotal feedback, observations and focus group output instead of objective measurements
9. Survey analysis interpretation

Additional quality manager skills include:

1. Customer relationship management to ensure partnerships and alliances
2. Energizing internal Customers to improve products, processes and services
3. Identification and prioritization of Customer needs and expectations using tools such as Voice of the Customer, House of Quality, Quality Function Deployment, focus groups and Customer surveys
4. Measurement of Customer satisfaction and loyalty using complaints, surveys, interviews, warranty data, value analysis and corrective actions
5. Conflicting requirement resolution and management of resources

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