1factory Integrates Compliance with Shop-Floor Quality
Most manufacturers run quality in two disconnected worlds. Compliance lives in one: procedures, training records, corrective actions, and audit documentation scattered across binders, shared drives, and standalone document systems. Shop-floor quality lives in the other: inspection plans, measurement data, and nonconformances. When an auditor asks how the two connect, the answer is usually days of manual preparation.
1factory, Inc. has introduced its Electronic Quality Management System (eQMS) software to close that divide. The 1factory QMS brings document control, training management, corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), supplier corrective action requests (SCARs), customer complaints, and audit readiness into a single cloud-based platform, natively connected to the company’s inspection and supplier quality tools already used on shop floors worldwide. Manufacturers can simplify compliance with standards such as ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 13485, and IATF 16949, and stay continuously audit-ready rather than scrambling before every audit.
“Quality leaders tell us the same problems over and over: they don’t want another disconnected system, and they don’t want to spend a year implementing one,” said Michael Corrales, VP Manufacturing Solutions at 1factory. “The 1factory eQMS goes live in days, not months, at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems, and it connects compliance directly to what’s happening on the shop floor. That combination simply hasn’t existed in this market before.”
Manufacturers adopting the 1factory QMS are reporting measurable results. VIDAR, an ITT Company, reduced audit preparation time by 83 percent, from three days to four hours, after replacing its fragmented, paper-based quality system with 1factory. Fairview Machine Company, a precision aerospace and medical component manufacturer and longtime 1factory customer, extended the platform from inspection into quality management. “I would 100 percent recommend the transition to 1factory’s Quality Management Software,” said Harrison Moulton, Quality Manager at Fairview Machine. “It has helped Fairview go completely paperless over the past 3 years while helping us maintain exceptional traceability across the board.”
Since its initial release, the QMS has expanded steadily, most recently adding Courses, a capability for managing safety, certification, and other externally sourced training with the same version control and completion tracking as internal procedures.
For more information: www.1factory.com
