Quality planning is the cornerstone of manufacturing execution and customer satisfaction. Without determining the critical characteristics, risks and controls that truly determine product quality, organizations are left at the mercy of uncontrolled variations.

Poor control and understanding of variation is the fundamental cause of quality issues in both product designs and manufacturing processes. The cost of poor quality can be rephrased as the cost of poor understanding of variations.

As a result, it’s fair to consider the control plan the end goal of the quality planning process. It reflects the sum of all your design and process engineering and quality planning efforts and your understanding of your product, processes, supplier capabilities and customer requirements.

The challenge is the overwhelming effort and cost of keeping control plans in sync with other quality planning documents. Control plans are not updated as often as they should be and changes to control plans are not always reflected back into the source quality planning documents. As a result, any best practice or lesson learned is lost beyond the immediate manufacturing cycle for that product. When updates are captured, the cost savings in engineering time becomes enormous. Most industry experts attribute 80% of quality issues to be repeat issues that could have been avoided.

Dyadem solutions remove the barriers to achieving continuous improvement and world class execution in manufacturing quality planning through:

• Standardizing the structure of all quality documents
• Driving all quality planning documents from a knowledge base of standardized terminology, best practices and lessons learned
• Linking design and manufacturing quality planning processes to ensure the capture of the critical knowledge that drives robust design, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) initiatives
• Linking all steps in manufacturing quality planning, ensuring that changes in process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, Control Plans, Gage Plans and Inspection Plans are kept in sync
• Providing visibility through dashboards and leading and lagging indicators of manufacturing quality performance

• Solutions Overview
• Risk Identification & Assessment
  • Design
  • Employee
  • Environment
  • Equipment
  • Manufacturing
  • Process
  • Project
  • Security
• Risk Mitigation & Control
• Risk Review & Monitoring