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Create Solutions With Quality Assurance Plans

More and more businesses today consider quality assurance plans as a strategic and indispensable aspect of their enterprise system. Today, no companies are willing to stake their reputation or bear the consequences of being associated with low quality products or services. Consequently, manufacturing companies are increasingly designing their enterprise systems with assurance of quality at their main USP. Quality monitoring is also finding its way into MES (Manufacturing Execution System, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), visibility, applications, analysis and collection. Today, quality management is no longer limited to the plant or production facilities. It has also expanded to include enterprise systems on various levels. It is also common to find quality assurance plans crossing the boundaries of MES, engineering systems and ERP compelling them to function together as a single entity. Earlier, companies considered quality monitoring systems as a bonus to their business. But today, they realize that these quality checking processes are absolutely necessary to take their businesses to the next level. Importance Of Integrated Quality Monitoring Plans In global economy these days, when companies are increasingly opting to outsource suppliers, it is inevitable to implement a centralized quality management system. After all, having a single quality process, a single set of metrics and a single method of achieving quality-related goals considerably enhances quality assurance plans and improves the communication channels between various departments in a company. Such a global quality monitoring system offers better visibility of outsourced suppliers and thus ensures timely delivery of products. Quality monitoring helps in determining how far the product made by the manufacturing department matches the expectations of the engineering designs. Such a quality check confirms that no quality-related aspect gets altered during the transition from the design to the production phase. Quality assessment system is also crucial for enhancing stability, controlling the risk factors in the supply chain, standardizing analytics and minimizing reaction time to issues uncovered by quality assurance plans . Problems Of Weak Quality Management

As proven by the recent incident of recall of toys and food products made in China, customers relate quality issues with the brand on the label, whether the problem lies with the main manufacturer or a lower level supplier. Companies that do not implement a strong quality system will ultimately face problems like loss of market share or revenue, major recalls, and even lawsuits. Traditionally, all business organizations have been operating from different departments like Research and Development, manufacturing, sales, finance, marketing and so on. The problem with quality assurance plans in this classification of functions is that the organization itself works as separate departments instead of functioning as a single structure. As these departments work independently, certain departments may grow and improve while others might lag behind in terms of performance and quality. This affects the overall quality management of the organization. In addition, if the practice of disconnected departments becomes common, it is a hard task to integrate the functions and encourage the staff to work as a single entity. Moreover, the longer a company follows this system of divided departments, the higher are its costs to modify QA plans as the staff become accustomed to this particular style of working and lack of communication between departments. It then becomes difficult for the company to progress. Many companies that have realized the disadvantages of this old system are now changing their attitude to remain competitive in tough economic times these days.

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