The paperless quality management system that earned a Top 10 Best Practice designation from NSF-ISR — free for any business.
“Your online paperless / digital eQMS software program puts you in our top ten list of best-practice businesses!”
— Murray Galper, Lead Auditor, NSF-ISR — AS9100 Certification Audit, 2007
Efficient QMS™ is the paperless quality management system Frank Elias envisioned and Brian Burns built in 2004 at Eagle-Picher Technologies — the same facility that produced flight batteries for the NASA Gravity Probe B (Einstein Mission). eQMS achieved AS9100 certification in 2007 and has served aerospace and defense manufacturers ever since.
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The 55-year quality heritage behind Efficient QMS™ is documented in full forensic detail in the Heritage Registry — including the NASA supplier assessment that preceded certification and the real-world aerospace deployments that validated the system.
What is Efficient QMS™?
Efficient QMS™ is a browser-based paperless quality management system. It runs on your webhost — not on your computer. Any device with a browser can access it: smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops. Your procedures, forms, work instructions, and records live in a database that your Company owns and controls.
There are no User fees, no annual subscription fees, and no support fees. Installation and tech-support have been no-charge since 2007, with no expiration.
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360° Document Interactivity™
Every person in your organization touches the same controlled documents from every direction: creation, revision, approval, release, retrieval, form fill, electronic signature, event tracking, and audit. Machine operators, inspectors, receiving clerks, engineers, and management all work in the same system daily — not just quality managers.
That’s 360° Document Interactivity™ — the principle that a quality system works only when everyone uses it, and everyone uses it only when it’s practical enough to be part of their daily work. eQMS is built on that principle. No separate modules to buy. No role-based paywalls. One system, every person, every document, every day.
Is this the right tool for your Company?
If your Company is asking any of these questions, the answer is Efficient QMS™:
- How do we transition from paper-based document control to a digital QMS without spending tens of thousands of dollars?
- How do we satisfy ISO 9001, AS9100, IA9100, AISC, FAA PMA, or other Customer flowdown requirements without hiring costly consultants to administer the program?
- How do we make quality a part of our business culture instead of a compliance burden?
- How do we manage all the paperwork required by our quality standard?
- How do we compete with larger Suppliers that already operate a pedigree quality program?
Efficient QMS™ has been deployed across construction, machine shops, aerospace and defense, aviation, medical devices, pharmaceutical, petroleum, automotive, NASA suppliers, ISO-regulated service businesses, and one-to-three person shops competing for pedigree customers.
Efficient QMS™ levels the playing field. Quality system registrars expect most businesses to operate a paperless digital QMS — and they respond positively when they see it.
What Efficient QMS™ does for your Company
- Document Control — A master Document Control Center organizes every controlled document by Category and Subcategory. Processes carry approved/under-revision status with revision gating. Any reference to another document in any procedure, work instruction, or record can be an interactive link.
- Form Maker & Process Maker — Create forms and procedures directly in the system. Convert existing paper forms to database-driven records. Recreate procedures by copying and pasting from existing documents. No programming required — any authorized User can expand the quality system through normal daily work.
- Electronic Signatures — Digital signature approval of records from anywhere with an internet connection. ESIGN/UETA-compliant typed signatures with full evidentiary chain — user identity, timestamp, and IP logging. Signed records lock as immutable audit evidence.
- Invitations — Send any form record or process to an external recipient for review or legally binding signature. UUID-secured links with time-limited expiration, access count limits, and IP logging. No account creation required for the recipient.
- Corrective Action Tracking — With validation of effectivity — even if “that” takes years to achieve.
- Engineering Orders — Change management with configuration control.
- Calibration & Event Management — Events schedule against specific records with automated email reminders. Calibration due dates, shelf life expirations, audit schedules, training renewals — any date-driven requirement becomes a tracked event with notification. The Calendar displays events by month, User, and Category.
- Internal Communication — Memos record who sent it, when, and to whom. Every memo is part of your quality record — not a disposable message.
- Pre-Release Verification — Built-in verification record for validating system operation prior to deployment, with signed evidence of completion.
- Search — Full database search across all controlled records. Find any record by content — not just by name or location.
- Backup & Recovery — One-click backup of database, controlled documents, attachments, images, and electronic signatures.
- Smart Device Deployment — Accessible from any device with an internet browser. No software installed on your computer or device — immune to PC crashes.
eQMS is not a scaled-down version of an enterprise platform. It is a purpose-built paperless quality system designed by a Responsible Quality Authority with 55 years of practical experience — from manufacturing to service to aviation to construction to spacecraft to railroad to petroleum to clothing — and to any business on this planet that does work worth documenting.
Built for the IA9100 Transition
The aerospace industry is transitioning from AS9100 to IA9100 — a generational shift that demands digital document control, traceable audit trails, and objective evidence that the quality system is operating, not just documented. Cloud QMS platforms charge $5,000 to $50,000 per year to meet these requirements.
Efficient QMS™ meets them at $0. Self-hosted, permanent license, your data on your server. The same architecture that earned AS9100 Top 10 Best Practice designation and ran production quality systems for NASA mission-critical hardware.
Whether your standard is IA9100, ISO 9001, Nadcap, AISC, ASA-100, or no formal standard at all — eQMS provides the paperless infrastructure to run a real quality system.
The heritage behind the code
Frank Elias began his quality career in 1969 at Edcliff Instruments. As the Responsible Quality Authority at Eagle-Picher Technologies, he wrote, revised, and signed off on the technical specifications and deliverable products for mission-critical projects, including the Gravity Probe B spacecraft batteries under NASA Contract NAS-8-39225.
The zero-defect methodology behind Efficient QMS™ supported missions including Lunar Prospector, TRMM, IMAGE, CONTOUR, KARI Kompsat-2, the ISS Emergency Lighting Power System, and scores of similar projects — and has been deployed by organizations from the U.S. Navy to the energy sector.
In 2003, when NASA mandated a top-to-bottom quality overhaul after Columbia, Frank didn’t just survive the 36-finding SAC audit — he used it as a catalyst to transition the entire quality system from legacy MIL-spec to AS9100. That transition produced eQMS in 2004 and NSF-ISR certification in 2007.
The same discipline that powered spacecraft batteries is the foundation of every line of code in Efficient QMS™. And now it’s available to every business that needs it — at any scale, for any standard.
Companies that trust Efficient QMS™
Efficient QMS™ has supported quality improvement programs at companies ranging from one-person shops to global manufacturers. Companies using eQMS have received registrations and pedigrees for ISO 9001, AS9100, AS9110, and Nadcap special processes.
“We’ve been working with eQMS since 2011, and over the years, all our Customers remark ‘Very nice!’ or ‘Very Professional!’ when we talk about our quality system!”
— Jason, Top Notch Manufacturing — November 2024
“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.”
— Arcadia Aerospace Industries
“We passed our ISO 9001 registration audit thanks to Efficient QMS. Thank you.”
— Nomad Aviation Inc.
“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.”
— Quest Manufacturing LLC
- Access Laser Company
- Alto Aviation, MA — aircraft sound systems
- Arcadia Aerospace Industries
- Avionics Mounts Inc.
- axept Custom Engineering — MEMS
- Canadian Solar Solutions Inc.
- Deutsch — global satellite business standardization
- 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.
- Photofabrication Engineering Inc.
- Quipco Al Shoumoukh, LLC
- Quest Manufacturing LLC
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Specialty Metals Corporation
- Sustainable Energy Technologies
Get your free licensed copy
Licensed “Lite” Efficient QMS™ is complementary for any business. Click/tap here for details and to download.
If you don’t have a website or hosting account, we’ll help you acquire a domain name and set up a low-cost hosting account while you are on the phone with us — at no charge. We’ll install eQMS and have it running in minutes.
Installation and tech-support are no-charge with no expiration. Call or email during your office hours, including weekends.
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System requirements
Efficient QMS™ runs on any commercial shared hosting plan or private webhost server with the following:
- PHP 8.1 to 8.x
- MySQLi
- Zend Engine
- ionCube Loaders 12 to 15
We strongly recommend SiteGround for shared hosting — it provides all required software by default and is very low cost. GoDaddy hosting requires Frank’s no-charge attention for configuration. Hostgator is confirmed working.
Installation is as easy as WordPress: Upload the eQMS zip file to your webhost, extract files, set up a MySQL database, and navigate to your eQMS webpage to begin the setup wizard — a few minutes from start to finish.
An FTP client or your webhost’s control panel is all you need to upload files.
License
Paperless eQMS License Agreement — eQMS is licensed software and requires a permanent license to operate. Your temporary license is included with your download. After downloading, contact us with your domain name or server IP address and we will prepare and send your permanent license. The process is straightforward and no-charge.
You can do it all yourself — but you don’t have to.
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No-charge tech-support by phone and email — no expiration — since 2007.