Quality control plan information and resources in the global field of quality management for business owners, managers, technicians and practitioners that need to start or upgrade their quality system to meet business goals and Customer requirements.

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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 don't have an up-to-date 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 transform 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).

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Click the following links to browse our most popular quality control plan tools and templates. You can expect open-book demos to assure an informed decision and immediate download to support your schedule and products priced right to eliminate tech-writing expenses. Click here for template instructions and guide to becoming the all important QMS Facilitator. No matter what - someone has to become the quality control plan subject-matter-expert to help the Company earn their QMS pedigree. We help facilitate your project with no-charge Consulting by phone and email when you need it most - 719-649-4242.

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Are you driven to convert your effective or undocumented QMS into an efficient quality management system to survive implementation and maintenance of standards like AISC, AS9100, AS9110, AS9120, ISO 9001, FAA FIS, FAA PMA, FAA Repair Station, Nadcap, USACE or other comprehensive QMS that you know is required to compete in today's world market?

Do you need realtime access to your QMS system and records using any device in your toolbox that can connect to the internet with a Browser?

Think of the advantages you'll have when you can remotely access Company policies, procedures, work instructions, forms and records or demonstrate for any Customer in realtime your commitment to quality.

See for yourself how you can access and operate demo Efficient QMS™ to browse what could be your quality system and records using your Blackberry, iPad, iPod, Palm or any device with internet Browser software.

Type-in the following address in your portable device or click the following link with your computer to begin using eQMS:

http://www.as9100-quality-system.com/demo

User-friendly point-and-click operation. Any device with Browser capability can access and operate eQMS so you're never cutoff from your records or QMS policies, procedures, work instructions and forms, including other categories and business documents that you assimilate into eQMS. 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 and no QMS documents 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. If you're a medium-to-large business and must find a way to transition from paper to electronic management then please click here to see for yourself how you can make that process less painful using demo eQMS.

A QMS pedigree requires extensive resources and tools to achieve certification and significant overhead to maintain the system for annual recertification. eQMS was designed to achieve QMS certification using existing employees and significantly reduce or eliminate overhead expenses.

Are you faced with the challenge to increase revenues and think a QMS pedigree will improve your odds? Do your budget limitations force you to call upon your employees to implement and maintain a complex QMS standard with diminishing resources?

All our Customers consider eQMS a formidable tool in their arsenal of business resources to facilitate Company policy and keep "things" under control and continuously improving.

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 demonstrate in realtime for your Customers how committed your Company is to quality. Your "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 AS9100 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."

FYI: Electro Energy purchased the Eagle-Picher (EP) Colorado Springs, CO facility in Oct 2003 and transferred all personnel as assets of the sale. The QA Mgr had been with EP since March 1981 and most other personnel had as many years of experience in the business. Between 2003 and 2005 the Company became publicly traded. It took a couple of years for old management to retire then new management decided on Dec 1, 2005, to acquire an AS9100 pedigree. By July 7, 2006 the Company had its pedigree from NSF-ISR with a 99% score using Efficient QMS™ as the foundation of their quality management system. The QA Mgr knew the sale of EP to EEI would cause a paradigm-shift so he began to develop a web-based QMS in April 2004 to make the culture shock less painful, not to mention that EEI inherited over 30 years of document baggage that had to quickly become "auditable". The result of all this effort is Efficient QMS™.

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. 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 men and women responsible for quality management, which, when done right, always continuously improves 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 because eQMS uses a web-based interface and only requires simple show-and-tell videos for the User's manual - and we,

• ...can't mention every feature here - there are too many...

Click here to learn how-to add any word-processed document to Efficient QMS™.

We invented Efficient QMS™ out of self-preservation and it has saved countless hours of labor and significantly decreased "management" expenses. User's intuitively navigate eQMS because it is browser-based and because it is such a convenient tool to access QMS documents and records after password-protected login.

We recommend installation of eQMS on an external webhost to enable "road warriors" to manage their business in realtime using any device with Browser capability. Not a bad idea if you're sitting with a Customer talking shop and suddenly need to browse some records. Think about the intangible return on investment from increased Customer confidence in the business operation.

Anywhere you can connect to the internet or internal server to login to eQMS is another tool to promote and manage your business.

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

$397 for eQMS shell that is seeded with a few forms to enable creation of your own proprietary management system. Click here to login to eQMS Shell as a normal User.

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 was in no small part because of eQMS."
Avionics Mounts Inc.
axept Custom Engineering (MEMS)
Dynamic Paint Solutions
Dynamic Power LLC
Global Parts Inc.
Howell Instruments Inc.
K-TECHnologies Inc.
Ligi Tool and Engineering Inc.
McAllister Tool and Machine
Mohr and Associates
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
Quest Manufacturing LLC. Testimonial: "Installing eQMS was very simple. The only issue we had with install on our server was getting the correct library for 64 bit and that was quickly cleared up."

Price - $497 - includes versions to support ISO 9001 or AS9100C, AS9110A, AS9120A or AISC. Other QMS systems available with prior notice, such as nuclear quality management.

Click the above demo links to see what is included in each version of eQMS using the Customer-type login, which limits access to blank forms and the QA System category to protect confidential or proprietary records.

Login Name: customer
Password: customer

The Customer-type login is very useful because it reduces access to only the category named "QA System" and its blank forms. Other categories added to eQMS are normally proprietary so we built-in a Customer-type login, which can also be used by Suppliers, Auditors, Prospects, Contacts and more...

$497 Efficient QMS, Complete | Add to Cart | View Cart

Efficient QMS™ software quality management system is accessible on any device with an internet Browser, including a WiFi enabled, private network webhost server. Click here for full-access demo to vigorously experiment with eQMS or click here to learn more... Download and install fully functional Efficient QMS™ anytime then we'll visit with you to provide a permanent license for your domain or server.

$397 Efficient QMS, Shell | Add to Cart | View Cart

Efficient QMS™ Shell is seeded with only a couple of documents to enable businesses to create their own proprietary management system or use it to replace paper forms with searchable electronic forms. Click here for full-access demo or click here to learn more... All the features in complete eQMS are included in Efficient QMS™ Shell.

Here's an interactive orientation video to quickly learn how to create a digital signature for use in eQMS:

New Features:

• Ability to allow/disallow editing on data fields by the "customer/customer" login.

• Ability to change the "customer/customer" login password.

• Ability to change the encryption key used for generating the Customer Access Link to disable previously emailed links.

• Allows signature authority Users to have multiple signature images. Signature Users can select a single signature or multiple signatures when "signing" a document.

• Automatic document revision control and manual document release system. We originally only provided for revision control of forms.

• Built in HTML editor. We originally did not provide for editing of procedures or work instructions within eQMS - an external editor was required.

• Enhanced security.

• New Form Maker functions in the design palette.

• New numerical data input types in forms.

• New orientation videos - and more...

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™

Click here to learn about starting a QMS from scratch.

Click here to visit the eQMS Blog.

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.

Our response to a question about starting a QMS from scratch.

The question:

We have antiquated systems, primarily undocumented and we are basically starting from scratch again. What it the most modern system? What is the difference between AS9003 and AS9100? Were your forms created as an ISO system that would make a company ISO Certification Ready? If not, do you have such a system?

Our response:

The AS9003 QMS is known as "Less than AS9100" and was very popular but Boeing has deleted it from their Supplier flowdown and replaced it with AS9100. Boeing now requires their Appendix A and B Suppliers to be registered to AS9100. Find Boeing’s Supplier requirements at: http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier/

The most modern QMS is AS9100 - we see that AS9003 will soon be updated by its sponsor sae.org.

The Manufacturing Company Kit you mentioned in your email is a commercial-grade kit that does not contain the documents necessary to become certified to ISO 9001. Many of the forms in the kit can be used in an ISO QMS but the manuals and procedures are based upon MIL-Q-9858, which do not comply with ISO 9001:2008.

Click here to find a matrix that describes how MIL-I-45208 and MIL-Q-9858 complies with ISO 9001:1994 and how ISO 9001:1994 complies with ISO 9001:2008.

The QMS for AS9120 contains all the forms for compliance to ISO 9001. All the AS9100 series standards are based upon ISO 9001 and include additional requirements to comply with the aerospace industry. When you elect to certify your QMS you will receive two certificates - one for ISO 9001 and one for the aerospace standard. The Aerospace Suppliers Association (ASA) provides certification to their standard through certified registrars but they are not as widely known as the AS9100 series of standards.

If you are starting your QMS from scratch and you want the most comprehensive system then AS9120 is a good choice; however, it is intended for a Aviation, Space and Defense (Stockist) Distributor so you will need to add some manufacturing requirements to the manual. You could easily integrate MIL-I-45208 into the QMS but if you want the most comprehensive QMS you should consider integrating the manufacturing provisions from AS9100. That’s easy to do by purchasing the procedure for manufacturing from our AS9100 Kit.

Of course, any aerospace QMS will cause your business culture to go through a paradigm-shift but that is a decision only you can make based upon your business plan. Are you seeking business with the primes, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop, NASA, etc - they all require certification to an aerospace standard but they’ll work with you if you’re a sole-source.

Since we’re an open-book website you can evaluate the impact of complying with an aerospace standard by browsing through the applicable conformance checklist or internal quality audit, such as AS9101 or AS9121. You will quickly find the decision to become certified is a life-changing event.

We’ve learned from the school-of-hard-knocks that all QMS standards require a business to make their records easy to collect and review. After you’ve implemented a QMS standard, the collection and management of records is the most costly part of compliance because those records are the only means you have to prove your compliance to the standard. Since you’re starting from scratch, have you considered using your internal network or your website as a tool to interact with your employees and Customers?

We suggest Efficient QMS™ to make all the effective QMS standards into efficient standards. None of the standards or Customers that flowdown the standards care much about how much pain and expense small businesses suffer to meet their requirements. The standards are designed to be effective and the User is supposed to figure-out how to make them efficient. We’ve done that with eQMS.

Our most comprehensive Distributor Kit for $397 is based upon AS9120 Aviation, Space and Defense (Stockist) Distributor, which can be used to achieve registration to AS9120 and ISO 9001.

A less comprehensive but up-to-date Distributor kit for $197 is based upon ASA-100 Aerospace Suppliers Association.

A little more comprehensive and name-brand Distributor AND Manufacturer kit for $247 is based upon ASA-100 and MIL-I-45208 Inspection System.

Hope this information helps your project.

Template Instructions:

Search for the word "your" using your word processor and replace the appropriate text with your business name or logo to make the template appear as though you created it. Demos display watermark and are Adobe encoded but downloads have no digital rights management restrictions or watermarks. You can use them on as many computers as needed in your business operation according to our license agreement. Click here to browse agreement.

Help facilitate your QMS transition using the following guide to implement any quality system:

The quality system survey is the implementation guide for any quality management system. Answers to survey questions are contained in the quality manual and documents that are referenced by the manual.

We suggest you read the entire quality manual to understand the scope of the quality assurance system project and whenever the manual refers to a procedure or form then collect and stack the applicable documents. During review of the manual only skim through the referenced documents to maintain attention on the manual. There may be several documents in our Kits that the quality manual does not reference but keep them handy because they are needed to answer all the questions in the survey.

After review of the manual then start to complete the survey. At first, only answer questions in the survey that can be answered by referring to paragraph numbers in the quality manual. When all "quality manual" related questions are answered then start to review the documents that were referenced by the manual. Refer to the quality manual, referenced documents and non-referenced documents in your Kit until all questions are answered in the survey. When the survey is complete then integrate the procedures and forms into your business operation.

During the above process you will have educated yourself about your quality system, which will help you to facilitate the transition with your employees and to prepare for interaction with your Registrar and Customers.

All you need to implement a fully conforming quality management system is contained in our Kits. Many Kits contain "value-added" documents because of feedback from our Customers. Their Customers always have additional needs and the "value-added" documents provide much needed support.

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