Click here to learn about Efficient QMS™ - a cloud-computing solution for Construction companies that need to reduce overhead expenses, simplify the business operation and/or achieve a QMS pedigree.
Click here to learn how to implement a construction quality program in-line with ISO 9001.
At-PQC™ you'll be pleased to find an extensive selection of construction quality control programs that help to establish quality control management that you can use to earn new business or keep existing business in the construction industry.
If you have a mature business that provides quality products or services but you don't have a construction quality control program to share with your Customers then you'll be very satisfied to find the resources to document your existing quality system practices or create a new construction quality control system to meet your Customer requirements.
At-PQC™ provides documented policies, procedures and forms that can be used to establish a low-complexity commercial-grade quality management system or a fully compliant industry standard quality control program for large contractors or contractors seeking Government-grade project performance.
Compliant with USACE ER 1110-1-12 dated 7-21-06 to create a generic QCP according to paragraph 2.3(b) and relevant sections of Chapter 3, and the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications, USGS-01 45 01 dated Jan 2008, Division 01, Section 01 45 01, USACE Quality Control for CQC program. Click here for more comprehensive kit.
The above Construction quality manual/program is for businesses that need a "quality manual" but not a "quality system". The Construction quality manual/program establishes Company policies and addresses project controls for nonconformances, responsible authorities, inspection steps, testing, document and record controls, workmanship and more...
A "quality manual" briefly describes Company policies and objectives without describing the quality system or supporting procedures that explain "how" things are done. A "quality system" is an organizational structure with procedures, processes and resources needed to implement quality management.
What does your Customer mean when they ask for a quality plan or program? We understand it is difficult for you to know what your Customer means without asking for their definition of "quality plan". Here's a couple of definitions to consider:
Definition #1: Quality Manual
Brief overview of quality policies and objectives with a list of key personnel and details for controlling requirements of the construction project. Tailor the manual/program for each project by recording the contract number AND project name on the cover page then describe work details in Chapter 10 - repeat for every project.
Definition #2: Quality System
Comprehensive description of the quality management system within the quality manual. The quality manual does not need to be tailored for each project/Customer because it applies to all projects.
If you need a quality manual/program according to Definition #1 then please browse the demo documents in the above Starter Kit. If you need a construction project quality management system according to definition #2 or if you need more than a quality manual/program then please click here to find a selection of quality system kits.
General Contractors and other Construction businesses can use the construction quality program as a project plan or quality manual where each project is issued a dedicated copy that is tailored to describe contract-specific work details. The manual/program or plan is useful for businesses that don't want or need a "quality system".
Typical Customer question:
Do you have a quality program - plan - manual?
If you're fortunate, your Customer means the kind of manual/program described in the CQC Plan. If you know your Customer wants a "quality system", please browse this page to find an appropriate quality management system. Call to brainstorm with us about your project - 719-649-4242.
Typical Manager questions and thoughts after a Customer requests a quality manual:
They're asking for a quality manual? Does that mean "quality system" or "quality manual" or "quality plan"?
We've never needed more than our boilerplate proposal sheet to bid on a job!
How do we do this without adding more burden to our business operation?
Solution: The CQC Quality manual/program/plan.
Simple, low cost plan that can be used as a template for every project. The CQC plan helps to delay implementation of a burdensome quality management system. The plan is a multiple application document for use as a manual, program and/or plan that applies to traditional business operations where a certified quality system is not mandatory.
This kit has a few additional forms for a more comprehensive CQC program that is compliant with USACE ER 1110-1-12 dated 7-21-06 to create a generic QCP according to paragraph 2.3(b) and relevant sections of Chapter 3, and the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications USGS-01 45 01 dated Jan 2008, Division 01, Section 01 45 01, USACE Quality Control for CQC program.
The basic quality plan summarizes the Company's best practices. Add specific work details then deliver the tailored plan to your Customer with contract proposal or after receipt of contract to briefly describe the quality program for the project. Change the name of the project on the cover page to use the quality plan as a template.
Click on the following links to evaluate the contents of the starter Quality Plan kit.
The starter kit is just enough quality to satisfy most projects but does not contain all referenced procedures and forms.
Some Customers request their Contractors or Suppliers to send them a brief overview of the Company's quality plan (sometimes called quality control plan or quality program) and other Customers request a quality program but mean they want a copy of the Company's quality manual that describes the quality management system. Hopefully, your Customer means they want you to send them this 5 or 6 page quality plan.
If your Customer wants a copy of your quality manual, please browse this page to find a selection of quality manuals and management system kits or click here to browse the catalog.
The basic quality plan summarizes the Company's best practices. Add specific work details then deliver the tailored plan to your Customer with contract proposal or after receipt of contract to briefly describe the quality program for the project. Change the name of the project on the cover page to use the quality plan as a template.
The comprehensive kit emphasizes documentation of nonconformances and associated corrective actions but does not contain all referenced procedures and forms.
Click on the following links to evaluate the contents of the comprehensive Quality Plan kit.
Some Customers request their Contractors to send them a brief overview of the Company's quality plan (sometimes called quality control plan or quality program) and other Customers request a quality program but mean they want a copy of the Company's quality manual that describes the quality management system. Hopefully, your Customer means they want you to send them this 5 or 6 page quality plan.
If your Customer wants a copy of your quality manual, please browse this page to find a selection of quality manuals and management system kits or click here to browse the catalog.
Some Customers request their Contractors to send them a brief overview of the Company's quality plan (sometimes called quality control plan or quality program) and other Customers request a quality plan but mean they want a copy of the Company's quality manual that describes the quality management system. Hopefully, your Customer means they want you to send them this 5 or 6 page quality plan.
If your Customer wants a copy of your quality manual, please browse this page to find a selection of quality manuals and management system kits or click here to browse the catalog.
Construction Manual-1 or Quality Plan, $47 for a Commercial Quality Control Program when you know your Customer is only going to check-the-box that you have a quality manual.
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Construction Manual-4, $97, comprehensive, commercial-grade construction quality manual to support General Contractors, Builders, Fabricators, Engineering Services, Highway and a variety of other construction business operations.
Click here to go to our catalog to evaluate more Construction Industry Standards, such as:
Asbestos Removal Standards
Environmental Standards
Substitution Standards
Submittal Standards
Sustainable Design Standards
Individual forms available in catalog - copy-and-paste title:
Internal Audit Kit, $127, audit internal quality system procedures and production activities. Useful tools for a Construction company that needs to operate a comprehensive quality system.
This kit helps to implement a commercial-grade construction quality control program for a variety of business operations that desire to keep-it-simple.
Click here if you need a comprehensive quality management system that has name-brand value.
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The starter kit is the lowest cost approach to obtaining the necessary skeleton of documents for a QMS. Use the references to procedures and forms in the manual as placeholders if your business already has sufficient documents to transition to the standard.
Click on the following links to evaluate the contents of the starter ISO 9001 design-build, build-to-spec, contractor-grade and AISC compliant quality system kit. See title of manual and QMS exclusions in paragraph 3.2 to determine which manual applies to your business then archive the remaining manuals.
Kit contains three styles of quality manuals, conformance checklist, management planning and employee orientation tools.
We credit purchase of the Starter kit after purchase of the
Comprehensive kit - no time limit.
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To open docs, input at least once, the following Username and Password:
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The lean kit does not contain the "Value-Added" documents that are in the
Comprehensive Kit.
Click on the following links to evaluate the contents of the lean ISO 9001 design-build, build-to-spec, contractor-grade and AISC compliant quality system kit, which you can use in your business operation according to license terms and conditions.
See title of manual and QMS exclusions in paragraph 3.2 to determine which manual applies to your business then archive the remaining manuals and applicable procedures and forms.
If you desire to upgrade the Lean kit, we credit purchase of the Lean kit after purchase of the
Comprehensive kit - no time limit.
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The comprehensive kit contains all the documents listed in the
Lean ISO kit plus the documents shown below. The comprehensive kit is for businesses that consistently use lessons-learned and key measurements to continuously improve.
Click on the following links to evaluate the contents of the complete ISO 9001 design-build, build-to-spec, contractor-grade and AISC compliant quality system kit, which you can use in your business operation according to license terms and conditions. See title of manual and QMS exclusions in paragraph 3.2 to determine which manual applies to your business then archive the remaining manuals and applicable procedures and forms.
To open demo docs, input at least once, the following Username and Password:
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The Comprehensive Kit contains all documents listed in the
Lean ISO kit plus those shown below. Use the following Username and Password to open demos.
Does your company need a less costly business management tool to replace the best-in-class programs from Autodesk® Constructware® software for construction project management or Oracle's Primavera SureTrak Project Manager?
eQMS software transforms any quality plan to a state-of-the-art quality program that enables your existing employees to achieve compliance to any quality system standard. Ideal project management tool for construction projects using built-in Forms Maker, Daily Planner and 50 year calendar. eQMS is an efficient software 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™ software program 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 tools like Autodesk Constructware or Primavera SureTrak, please
click here to learn about Efficient QMS™ software quality management system (QMS) that we designed to achieve certification or replace expensive project management alternatives using existing employees to implement and maintain complex QMS standards such as AISC or AS9100, AS9110, AS9120 or ISO 9001.
Click here to browse list of training videos to learn how to apply the features of Efficient QMS™.
Efficient QMS Web App is a simple, cost effective, cloud-based and paperless solution that simplifies management activities for any Company.
User-friendly point-and-click operation.
Does your business need a good set of tools that actually simplifies a modern-day quality management system?
Imagine a point-and-click working environment for a QMS where everybody logs in and is instantly familiar with how things work because it is internet-based.
Users can access QMS documents and fill out forms online using any device with an internet browser - that's any desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet, PDA, Blackberry, iPad/iPhone/iPod and smartphone - any device with an internet Browser.
Records are in a database so they don't have to be transposed to a spreadsheet to analyze and there are no transposition errors.
Action items are displayed as soon as a User logs in and they're all displayed on the Events Calendar. Plus, eQMS sends email notifications and reminders in advance to enable Users to maintain their commitment to the schedule.
The latest revision documents are just a click away and are never caught by an Auditor because they are never out-of-date.
Documents under revision and new documents are controlled through a release process that assures the current documents are used right up to the moment that new documents are released.
Auditors love eQMS because everything they need to substantiate compliance is a point-and-click away.
Customers can log-in using a built-in Customer account that only displays QMS procedures and blank forms to protect proprietary information.
eQMS is expandable to enable access to other Company resources.
Scanned or PDF documents can be attached/embedded in forms, such as certs, receiving reports, contract modifications, drawings and more... If documents are too large to attach or embed in a record then the User can create a link to display the document.
Video training guides are the only resources needed to learn how to use the features of eQMS and they can be expanded to train other Company activities.
Procedures and records can be sent "live" to Customers, Suppliers, Potential Clients and Users to browse or fill out without having to log-in to eQMS.
Any form in the Company can be created using Form Maker and any procedure can be imported and edited using Process Maker.
Forms can be signed by responsible authorities to assure approval to proceed and prevent assumptions.
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."
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 an efficient solution for Company's 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 quality 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 improving the management of Company resources and reducing the labor required to keep things up-to-date.
eQMS enables paperless management of:
bulletins
calibration
changes
configuration
corrective actions
expired materials
forms
improvements
manuals
policies
procedures
production records
nonconformances
preventive actions
purchase orders
receiving inspection
training
work instructions - and more...
Simple, low cost Efficient QMS™:
has a daily planner with reminder login for Users that can't remember everything they need to do
has a video User's manual
has easy navigation for all Users with their internet Browser
has flexibility to add or remove categories to fit the business operation - and more...
Click here to learn how-to add any word-processed document to Efficient QMS™.
Click here to browse list of training videos to learn how to apply the features of 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.
Recent Questions from Customers:
We are a two person shop and need some help to quickly become compliant with a Customer requirement. Do you have something we can use?
We have 47 Employees and lots of Customers. One of our team members in a recent management review meeting suggested we find something that will simplify things. Can you help?
Our small business has used MIL-I-45208 for years but our local QAR just rotated to another person and he wants to change our contract to require compliance to ISO 9001. We can't afford to give an arm and a leg to get compliant with ISO and there's no time in our delivery schedule to implement all this stuff. We could renegotiate the contract but we don't want the hit to our ABVS score. We really need something that's easy to maintain and won't cost an arm-and-a-leg. Will your eQMS thing do the job?
We've got tons of records in storage and we're constantly adding to it. We recently learned it would cost us over $30K to transfer all of it back to our shop or dispose of it. We have got to do something to get out from under this baggage or $30K will become $100K in a couple of years. Management wants to go paperless but can't find a cheap enough solution. We've looked online but everything is way too expensive, then we saw your Efficient QMS program. Will it really work to help us go from paper to electronic records?
Most businesses don't have a lot of time to develop a quality system and would rather find something that is already done, easy to manage and compliant with Customer requirements.
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)
Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. This manager started working for Canadian Solar Solutions shortly after setting up and operating eQMS for his previous employer, Sustainable Energy Technologies. Because of lessons learned at his old employer, he convinced new management to use eQMS to help them survive a CSA audit in six (6) weeks, which they passed.
Deutsch (.net) This global Company could route all their satellite businesses through one internet-based quality management system to standardize a critical business operation.
Dynamic Paint Solutions
Dynamic Power LLC
Global Parts Inc.
Howell Instruments Inc.
K-TECHnologies Inc.
Ligi Tool and Engineering Inc.
McAllister Tool and Machine
Midstate Industrial Supply
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."
Quipco Al Shoumoukh, LLC
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
IAS AC472. 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...
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. Download and install fully functional Efficient QMS™ anytime on your webhost or internal server then we'll visit with you to provide a permanent license.
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. All the features in complete eQMS are included in Efficient QMS™ Shell.
Click here to browse list of training videos to learn how to apply the features of Efficient QMS™.
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".
How will your business spell relief?
Efficient QMS™
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We are a construction company that wants to develop a construction management system in line with ISO. Can you please let me know the details of getting registered with you to have access to various information in this regard. Do you have any demo packs available online or personally?
Looking forward to hearing from you at the earliest...
Response:
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in our products. We are pleased to support your project with an ISO-based quality management system.
Click here to browse documents in the ISO Design-Build Kit that will enable a business to achieve a QMS pedigree.
We are an open-book website where you can browse the contents of documents to make an informed decision for your project. Please find the Username and Password to access documents at the top of the list of documents in the Kit - you only need to enter them once...
Hope this information helps your project.
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