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Drive Manufacturing Quality Improvement, Control and Assurance with Mobility

Driving manufacturing quality improvement, control and assurance processes

6% of the overall manufacturing workforce is dedicated to quality assurance.

Manufacturing organizations are challenged with improving their current operations processes with a small percentage of quality improvement, control and assurance professionals. With smaller teams, organizations are challenged with producing high-quality and reliable products to meet regulations and standards, while making the best use of their resources.

Mobility provides manufacturing organizations with the opportunity to improve their current processes with automated systems that allow quality improvement, control and assurance teams to easily complete inspection and reporting tasks. Mobile apps improve documentation accuracy, and increase business responsiveness and workflow efficiency.

Only

Current trends in quality improvement, control and assurance operational excellence

•  Implementing advanced technology for providing regular checks that guarantee accuracy, completion and integrity with right-time data

•  Integration of automated workforce systems that address mistakes with right-time data, improving reliability and providing confidence in the organization’s products and services

•  Increased stringent regulations for flawless products, as a mistake can cost an organization thousands of dollars

The Old Reality vs The New Reality

NEW REALITY Mobility provides the opportunity for manufacturing organizations to improve their current processes in-house. New apps allow for better collaboration between quality improvement, control and assurance teams.

Organizations hired costly consulting firms to drive operational excellence initiatives for accurate and efficient quality improvement, control and assurance methods.

OLD REALITY


NEW REALITY Consumers have been trained to use mobile devices, and new mobile apps provide a fast, personalized user experience custom-tailored for their role.

Organizations were constrained for resources when trying to adapt current quality improvement, control and assurance teams to new business processes.

OLD REALITY


NEW REALITY Mobile apps provide manufacturing organizations with the opportunity to modernize and replace cumbersome processes in a cost-effective, more efficient way.

Organizations relied on outdated manual processes, such as collaborating using paper or spreadsheets, which are time-consuming and prone to human error.

OLD REALITY

Identify customer value by responding to their needs

Identify Customer Value With automated, data-intensive systems, quality improvement, control and assurance teams can make continuous improvement to meet customer value and improve responsiveness.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility optimizes every point on the customer value chain to deliver the maximum efficiency, responsiveness and customer value.

Identify Customer Value

(Responsiveness)

Pursue Perfection(Continuous

Improvement)

Map the Value Stream

(Optimize Processes)

Create Flow(Track Metrics)

Establish Pull(Optimize Materials

and Labor)

Optimize processes by understanding customer values


Quality assurance teams can optimize their current processes to continuously improve the quality of the products produced, constantly challenging their team to increase quality standards.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides the tools quality improvement, control and assurance teams need to optimize processes and increase responsiveness to customers.


(Responsiveness)


Improvement)





and Labor)

Track metrics and eliminate waste with the right data

Create Flow Accelerate all quality improvement, control and assurance initiatives with the ability to collect more metrics to further analyze and optimize processes.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobile apps encourage a culture of increased data collection and integrity, which allows better fine-tuning of critical quality improvement, control and assurance processes.


(Responsiveness)


Improvement)





and Labor)

Optimize materials and labor to measure customer buying habits

Establish Pull Quality improvement, control and assurance teams have now identified where to be more responsive, by collecting data to optimize processes and make material and labor decisions for desired inputs and outputs.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides a way to put metrics to work, modernizing processes and optimizing materials and labor costs to get the job done.


(Responsiveness)


Improvement)





and Labor)

Pursue perfection with continuous evaluation of current processes

Pursue Perfection By making processes more efficient and productive, it is easier to drive continuous improvement. Your team can now understand customer value and how to maximize processes to meet their needs. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility gives your team the opportunity to pursue perfection through iterative, continuous improvement.


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Improvement)





and Labor)

Mobility adds value from supply chain to sale

Supply Chain Operations Fulfillment Sales &

Marketing Post Sale

Inventory Control

Real-time Logistics

Scheduling

Receipt Acknowledgements

Product Lead Times

Order Tracking

Scheduling Visibility

Quality Control

Dispatch Scheduling

Logistics

Route Optimization

Warehouse Automation

Customer Dashboard

Sales Reporting

Quotes/Estimating

Competitor Intel/Analytics

Work Order Approvals

Service Manuals

Service Performance

Dealer Management

Improve primary manufacturing functions with mobility

Admin, IT and Finance

Human Resources

Procurement

Product Development

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Examples of pre-built manufacturing quality improvement, control and assurance apps

Replace manual, paper-based processes

Improve performance with real-time data delivery

Monitor production quality and operations metrics in real-time

How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?

Identify a meaningful quality assurance challenge or need that could be addressed with a mobile app.

Many challenges in quality assurance tend to be the "little things" that add up to daily frustration and loss of productivity for the team or manage-ment. Examples include relying on manual process-es and collecting information manually on paper.


Start a conversation with your internal IT department about existing policies and procedures that might be applicable to mobile app deployment. When researching mobile apps, security should be a top priority for your manufacturing quality assurance team. Keep your IT team involved as you HYDOXDWH�VROXWLRQV�DQG�DSSV�WKDW�DUH�WDLORUHG�WR�ĆW�your team's needs.


Start a conversation with your team, ad-dressing their pain points and how their job can be made easier with a mobile app.

For a mobile app to be successful for your quality

assurance team, it must be focused on their needs.

If they could have a set of mobile apps to help them

with their job, what would the top three be? How

challenging is it for the team to gather information

and collaborate together to achieve operational

excellence?


Identify the key goals that your manufac-turing quality assurance team wants to achieve with an investment in mobility. When planning for the implementation of a mobile app, consider what information and data they need to keep revenue up while managing tight schedules and deadlines. Beyond user acceptance, what are the PHWULFV�DQG�UHVXOWV�WKDW�ZLOO�GHĆQH�VXFFHVV�IRU�\RXU�ĆUVW�PRELOH�DSS"�

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