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Fundamentals of quality control plan management:
#1 the Customer establishes the definition of quality
#2 if measurements are not performed then improvements cannot be made
#3 do it right the first time

The simplified approach to Quality:

• say what you do and do what you say;

• write down the important functions, match the spec to the task and organize your system to achieve quality;

• make instructions available to Operators, keep the instructions up-to-date and maintain necessary records of activities;

• define a quality policy, provide a vision and demonstrate commitment;

• establish the responsibility for providing quality products and services and keep everyone informed;

• define and measure important product, process and service characteristics against requirements;

• collect information, determine its meaning and make improvements;

• when the product can't be checked then check the process to ensure it remains capable;

• create and maintain a satisfactory workplace, prepare people for the job and provide resources for the system;

• determine process functions and interactions ahead of time, then control the processes;

• clearly understand Customer requirements, make sure the requirements can be met, keep the Customer informed and track Customer satisfaction;

• know what you are designing and create a design plan, identify measures for the success of the plan and review the design as it progresses, verify the design does what it has promised and control changes;

• identify good and bad items, preserve good items, keep bad items away from good items and determine what to do with bad items;

• keep track of delivered products and services and ship only what was ordered; know what you need to purchase and check-out your Suppliers;

• control Customer property to prevent damage;

• control and maintain necessary measurement and test equipment and use the equipment in the appropriate work environment;

• examine internal operations and report the results to management;

• determine the root cause of problems, fix the cause of the problem and verify the corrections are permanent; practice, practice, practice continuous improvement

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Question from atk.com about how to report significant digits for first article inspection report:

Can you help me report significant digits related to first articles??

Hello,

Thanks for your question - please see ASTM E 29 for the industry standard rounding technique, which is applicable to all scientific work regardless of its nature (first article included).

ASTM states:

"When the digit next beyond the last place to be retained is less than 5, retain unchanged the digit in the last place retained.
When the digit next beyond the last place to be retained is greater than 5, increase by 1 the digit in the last place retained.
When the digit next beyond the last place to be retained is 5 and there are no digits beyond this 5 or only zeros, increase by 1 the digit in the last place retained if it is odd, leave the digit unchanged if it is even. Increase by 1 the digit in the last place retained if there are digits beyond this 5.
The rounded value must be obtained in one step by direct rounding of the most precise value available and not in two or more successive roundings."

We cite ASTM E 29 in Company documents whenever part of the work instruction is to report significant digits for compliance to a spec with only 1, 2, 3 or 4 decimal places. If your measuring device's readout displays more decimal places than the specification then you are required to round your reading to match the number of decimal places in the specification - that's where ASTM E 29 comes in handy...

Example - 0.021"±0.001"
0.0211" to 0.0214" must be rounded down to 0.021" for 2 significant digit specifications;
0.0215" to 0.0219" must be rounded up to 0.022" for 2 significant digit specifications;
(unless the last retained digit from the rounding method is even, e.g., 0.0225" is rounded down to 0.022" since the last digit retained is even, while 0.0226" is rounded up to 0.023")

Example - 0.0215"±0.0015"
0.0211" to 0.0219" must be applied as observed - no rounding is possible if the measurement equipment can only read to the 4th decimal place. If the equipment is capable of reading beyond the 4th decimal place then round to the last digit retained as described herein paying particular attention to whether the retained digit is odd or even when followed by the numeral 5.

Example - 550±50
499.1 to 499.4 must be rounded down to 499
499.5 to 499.9 must be rounded up to 500
600.1 to 600.5 must be rounded down to 600
600.6 to 600.9 must be rounded up to 601

Please find this rounding method in our catalog at "General Requirements".

Hope this information helps your project.

Response from T. Gib., Mission Assurance Engineer: "Thanks a bunch Jennifer and Frank!!!"

Tips 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 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 to become an expert on the subject, which will help your employees and prepare you for interaction with your 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.

Most popular tools

AS9100 Quality System

Construction Project Quality Manuals

Construction Project Quality Plan

Construction Quality System, Commercial, Civil and Government Grade

FAA Quality Manual and Kits

ISO 9001:2008 Quality Plans

Quality Control Manuals

Quality Control Procedures

Quality Management System Kits

Quality Control Forms, Individual

Quality Control Forms, Kit

7-Page Quality Manual for ISO 9001:2008 and/or AS9100:

Condensed Quality Manual to quickly describe the management system.

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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 bottom-line. 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 was in no small part because of 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
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: $697 includes ISO 9001 or AS9100C, AS9110A, AS9120A or AISC (other QMS systems available with prior notice).

The March 2010 release of eQMS has a built-in HTML editor and document release system...!

Add to Cart | View Cart | Complementary MS Word quality manual and product license delivered soon after purchase by email. Please look for our email in your spam or junk folder. Call 719-649-4242 for assistance during your office hours.

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.

• Many bug fixes.

• New Form Maker functions in the design palette.

• New numerical data input types in forms.

• Provide Form Maker database content to enable editing of all supplied forms. We originally did not enable editing of supplied forms.

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!

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