The ISO 9001 quality system is quite a commitment and returns on its investment should be measured to ensure that it continuously improves itself to further increase profits. If you don't measure it you can't improve it is an important tenet of the standard.
The starter kit is helpful to introduce managers to the scope of an improvement project. The introduction can be so informative as to scare away or convince participants to accept the inevitable culture shock to the business operation.
Many businesses operate with sufficient documents to easily transition to a modern QMS. Use the references to procedures and forms in the starter kit manual as placeholders to insert your existing business document names. This implementation strategy takes a little more time but makes the starter kit the lowest cost approach to obtaining foundation documents and necessary direction to implement a QMS.
The starter kit contains manual, conformance checklist, management planning and employee orientation tools.
Use the Design manual in the starter kit if your business designs and produces or manufactures its own products.
Use the Build-to-Customer requirement manual if your business produces products or manufactures according to Customer contract.
Use the Service manual if your business provides a service such as installation, maintenance, management, GSA contractor - or other non-manufacturing business operation.
Select your manual then archive the remaining manuals. The differences between the different style manuals are the exclusions listed in paragraph 3.2 and applicable paragraph numbers.
It takes some time to use the starter kit to create a plan. If you don't have the time, click here to browse the Lean kit, which can be used to objectively validate the Company's assertion of compliance to the standard in the shortest possible time.
We credit purchase of the Starter kit after purchase of the Lean or Comprehensive kit - no time limit.
The Lean Kit presents a more mature business operation. If your Company is not compliant to ISO 9001, the lean kit will help your business to earn a QMS pedigree just-in-time for the next RFP that's set-aside only for eligible Suppliers. Convincing a Customer to buy is much easier when a business can provide a pedigree from a Registrar that confirms compliance to the standard.
1) Fast-track implementation strategy:
A very handy feature of the lean QMS kit is its ability to pass the one-day desktop survey of a Registrar, which is a bonus when a business has just enough time to respond to a Customer proposal that requires Suppliers to be certified or compliant with the standard. The Company can quickly and objectively earn a pedigree that confirms compliance to the standard by submitting the manual and
required procedures and forms to the vetting process of a Registrar - here's how:
Purchase the Lean or Comprehensive kit then tailor the manual to display the Company's info.
Prorate dates in file named "Schedule to QMS Registration".
Assign key authorities to attend an orientation to view file named "QMS Introduction" or "Internal Auditor Training". Remember to create a log sheet of attendance from the kick-off meeting. Coaching by phone and email is no-charge At-PQC™.
Hire a Registrar and fast-track their desktop survey of QMS documents. The schedule backlog of the Registrar could be a bottleneck but hopefully there are more Registrars to choose from in your City or State.
Passing a Registrar's examination of the documents in your QMS isn't a registration number but the pedigree offers independent verification that your intent is genuine and firmly establishes a timeline for your business to become a certified Supplier.
Fast-Track Goal:
Enable businesses to compete just-in-time with certified Suppliers.
2) Self-assertion implementation strategy:
This strategy enables a business to send a manual to a concerned Customer within an hour of download - here's how:
The Comprehensive kit has more documents because of lessons-learned and continuous improvement opportunities that we've encountered over a significant time (30 years with the most demanding managers and Customers on the planet). The additional forms and work instructions help to present a mature business that has learned to measure performance to increase return on investments.
At-PQC™ is an "open-book" website where you can browse 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 plan for your project. Tailor documents to display your business name and logo because the documents you download are fully editable in with MS Office or compatible program.
At-PQC™ demonstration documents are WYSIWYG; that is, what you see in demonstration documents is precisely what you receive in editable MS Office format and we don't impose invasive DRM User-limitations. Please use documents for your project according to license terms and conditions.
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the Customer establishes the meaning of quality...
if measurements are not performed then improvements cannot be made...
do it right the first time...
The process approach of the standard can be simplified by stating:
continuously improve…
create partnerships with Suppliers...
focus your business on Customer satisfaction...
make decisions based upon factual measurements...
provide leadership and steering...
share the vision, objectives and plans with everyone...
structure the organization to work in a natural process flow...
systemize the processes to meet Customer requirements...
Click here for insight to performing a first article inspection.
Click here for a list of minimum procedures and forms.
Tailor policies, procedures and forms to meet your needs and use them according to license terms and conditions.
Insight to performing first article inspection FAI:
Characteristic Accountability
The Company shall verify and record the results of every design characteristic during first article inspection FAI. Every design characteristic shall have its own unique characteristic number.
NOTE: Reference characteristics may be omitted from the first article inspection FAI.
NOTE: Use more than one line if needed for any characteristic.
NOTE: Characteristics not measurable in the final product shall be verified by destructive means or during the manufacturing process (as long as they are not affected by subsequent operations). Characteristics verified at the detail level may be referenced in the assembly-level first article inspection report (FAIR).
Record of Results
Results from inspection of design characteristics shall be expressed in quantitative terms when a design characteristic is expressed by numerical limits. The Company shall record the results in the units specified on the drawing or specification unless otherwise approved by the Customer. Go/no-go data may be used when the design characteristic does not specify numerical limits (e.g., break all sharp edges) or an inspection technique is unavailable to provide quantitative terms. Go/no-go data may also be used when qualified tooling is used as a check feature for a specific characteristic.
Click here to go to the first article inspection procedure FAI.
The starter kit is the lowest cost approach to obtaining the necessary skeleton of documents. Use the references to procedures and forms in the manual as placeholders if your business already has sufficient documents to transition to the standard.
Use the Design manual in the starter kit if your business designs and produces or manufactures its own products.
Use the Build-to-Customer requirement manual if your business produces products or manufactures according to Customer contract.
Use the Service manual if your business provides a service such as installation, maintenance, management, GSA contractor - or other non-manufacturing business operation.
Select your manual then archive the remaining manuals. The differences between the different style manuals are the exclusions listed in paragraph 3.2 and applicable paragraph numbers.
We credit purchase of the Starter kit after purchase of the Lean or Comprehensive kit - no time limit.
Use the following Username and Password to open demos.
To open docs, input at least once, the following Username and Password:
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If your business builds to Customer requirements then use the "Build-to-Customer Spec Manual" and archive the Design and Service manuals and design related procedures and forms.
If your business provides a service then use the "Service Manual" and archive the Build-to-Customer Spec and Design manuals and calibration procedure and design related procedure and forms.
If your business designs its own products then use the "Design Manual" and archive the Build-to-Customer Spec and Service manuals.
The lean kit presents a more mature business operation and does not contain the "Value-Added" documents that are in the Comprehensive Kit.
Use the Design manual in the starter kit if your business designs and produces or manufactures its own products.
Use the Build-to-Customer requirement manual if your business produces products or manufactures according to Customer contract.
Use the Service manual if your business provides a service such as installation, maintenance, management, GSA contractor - or other non-manufacturing business operation.
Select your manual then archive the remaining manuals. The differences between the different style manuals are the exclusions listed in paragraph 3.2 and applicable paragraph numbers.
Click on the following links to evaluate the contents of the lean program kit, which you can use in your business operation according to license terms and conditions.
We credit purchase of the Lean kit after purchase of the Comprehensive kit - no time limit.
The Kit contains all documents listed below.
Use the following Username and Password to open demos.
To open demo docs, input at least once, the following Username and Password:
is the Username to open demo docs is the Password to open demo docs
The comprehensive kit contains all the documents listed in the
Lean ISO kit plus the following "Value Added Forms and Work Instructions". The comprehensive kit is for businesses that consistently use lessons-learned and key measurements to continuously improve, which needs a few more procedures and forms to accomplish than the
Lean ISO kit.
Click on the following links to evaluate the contents of the additional documents in the comprehensive management kit, which you can use in your business operation according to license terms and conditions.
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.
To open demo docs, input at least once, the following Username and Password:
is the Username to open demo docs is the Password to open demo docs
The comprehensive kit contains all the documents listed in the Lean ISO kit plus "Value Added Forms and Work Instructions". Click on the above links to evaluate the contents of the Comprehensive Kit, which you can use in your business operation according to license terms and conditions.
Are you driven to convert your effective or undocumented QMS into an efficient QMS to survive implementation and maintenance of standards like AISC, AS9100, AS9110, AS9120, ISO 9001, FAA FIS, FAA PMA, FAA Repair Station, IAS AC472, Nadcap, USACE or other comprehensive QMS that you know is required to compete in today's world market?
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.
There are advantages to remotely accessing Company policies, procedures, work instructions, forms and records to demonstrate for any Customer in realtime your commitment to their project.
See for yourself how you can access and operate demo Efficient QMS™ to browse what could be your QMS 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:
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™ software was developed to eliminate undesirable overhead expenses and labor-intensive QMS maintenance.
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.
If you're a small business with few employees and no QMS documents that must compete with large businesses that have a certified QMS, please click here to learn more about Efficient QMS™. If you're a medium-to-large business and must find a way to transition from paper to electronic then please click here to see for yourself how demo eQMS will make that process less painful.
A QMS pedigree requires extensive resources and tools to achieve certification and significant overhead to maintain it 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 their project. Your "office" is always open and your business files are always handy...!
From the QMS 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 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 managers to retire then new managers 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™. 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 tools.
We have very carefully created a browser-based working environment for a simple or complex 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 improving the management of Company resources and reducing the labor required to keep things up-to-date.
eQMS enables paperless management of:
blueprints
calibration
configuration
corrective action
expired material
forms
policies
procedures
production records
nonconformances
preventive actions
purchase orders
receiving inspection
training manuals and videos
work instructions - and more...
Efficient QMS™:
has a daily planner with reminder login for Users that can't remember everything they need to do
has a simple User's manual (how-to videos)
has easy navigation for all Users with their internet Browser
has flexibility to add or remove categories to fit the business operation
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 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.
We are proud Efficient QMS™ was chosen to support the 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, 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 managers 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
cloud-based QMS 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 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 plans available with prior notice, such as nuclear QMS.
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 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 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 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 plan 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.
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. 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 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 the Customer's project.
You can populate eQMS with any QMS - 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 plans like Construction, Maintenance, Machine Shop, Engineering, Commercial, Civil, Government - any Customer flowdown program or voluntary plan!
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Efficient QMS™
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