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Site Inspections: Road Map to On-Time Supplier Quality Assurance
Supplier quality issues like non-conformance management, product recalls and product failures are proving fatal for global organizations. World-class manufacturers are realizing the need to maintain a consistent and systematic quality process to gain real time inspections data with analytics of trend analysis..
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Integrated Supplier Audits for Better Supply Chain Governance
Supplier audits and inspections is a critical process that supports quality and compliance management when dealing with vendors, suppliers and contract manufacturers. World class organizations are looking to incorporate best practices in supplier audit management when implementing supply chain governance and performance management programs..
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Six Sigma Management Solution Demo
A comprehensive software solution for an effective Six Sigma program management within an organization by streamlining the processes and activities for the DMAIC and DMADV methodologies.

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Quality assurance and regulatory compliance across the extended enterprise
Achieving enterprise-wide quality requires the collection of key metrics from disparate and disconnected sources in the enterprise.This could come from production, quality assurance,engineering, customer service and purchasing departments. This paper discusses why it is essential for organizations to have a web-based system to help them integrate, automate and provide visibility into these metrics from across the enterprise.

Quality management for multisite manufacturing
The hi-tech industry is the motor for economic growth worldwide, setting a scorching pace in developing, producing, and marketing its hi-tech quality products across the globe. This paper discusses the various quality standards pertaining to the hi-tech industry and why a Hi-tech enterprise plan requires an effective global quality management system to manage the entire spectrum of activities towards final delivery.

Quality and compliance for the hi-tech industry
The High Tech industry faces dynamic challenges with shrinking product life cycles, and demands for constant product innovation. This paper discusses the need for an enterprise-class quality management system to forge better understanding between customers and vendors across the extended enterprise while helping the enterprise reduce nonconformance issues and comply with regulations and standards.

Quality and compliance in the medical device industry: issues and perspectives
The strong emphasis on quality in medical device manufacturing imposes stringent demands on the design and validation processes, as well as the packaging and logistics aspects. Furthermore, this industry is strictly FDA-regulated, and regulatory certification and compliance monitoring are critical needs to establishing strong customer and market credibility. This paper lists the challenges faced today by medical device manufacturers and the possible solutions to the problems.

Quality and compliance in the Pharmaceutical industry: issues and perspectives
The pharmaceutical industry is subject to a number of regulations stipulated by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory authorities. These regulations enforce strict quality standards on pharmaceutical companies to ensure the safety and benefits of the products made by them. This paper discusses the importance of IT systems in addressing the issues related to ensuring compliance to FDA regulations.

Quality*Stream for Compliance and Quality Management
Organizations are successfully implementing enterprise-wide quality and compliance systems to gain visibility and control over key quality processes across their operations and to ensure compliance with government regulations, industry mandates, company policies and internal initiatives. This paper discusses how the MetricStream system helps you to comply with industry mandates such as TS16949 or QS9000:2002 or implement internal initiatives such as ISO9000 or sixsigma.

Six Sigma - Guidance towards achieving improved Customer satisfaction, increased profit margins, shorter cycle times and reduced costs.
Six Sigma is good for business, delivering business results that can accelerate growth, reduce costs and ultimately deliver extraordinary profits to stakeholders. Manufacturing industries, health care and many more sectors have adopted Six Sigma processes to improve performance and deliver customers with unparalleled quality and excellence in products, services and delivery. This paper discusses the Six Sigma methodology and the best practices to implement the same across the enterprise.

Six Sigma and quality management solutions
Six Sigma is good for business, delivering business results that can accelerate growth, reduce costs and ultimately deliver extraordinary profits to stakeholders. Manufacturing industries, health care and many more sectors have adopted Six Sigma processes to improve performance and deliver customers with unparalleled quality and excellence in products, services and delivery. This paper discusses the Six Sigma methodology and the best practices to implement the same across the enterprise.

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RFP Templates
Six Sigma Management Solution RFP Template
A comprehensive software solution for an effective Six Sigma program management within an organization by streamlining the processes and activities for the DMAIC and DMADV methodologies.

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Insights
Site Inspections: Road Map to On-Time Supplier Quality Assurance
Supplier quality issues like non-conformance management, product recalls and product failures are proving fatal for global organizations. World-class manufacturers are realizing the need to maintain a consistent and systematic quality process to gain real time inspections data with analytics of trend analysis.

Integrated Supplier Audits for Better Supply Chain Governance
Supplier audits and inspections is a critical process that supports quality and compliance management when dealing with vendors, suppliers and contract manufacturers. World class organizations are looking to incorporate best practices in supplier audit management when implementing supply chain governance and performance management programs.

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Optimizing Your Supply Chain Using Leaner Business Practices - Ensuring Greater Supplier Quality
This webinar focuses on some of the key Supplier quality challenges, some techniques and best practices to identify product quality issues and resolve them by initiating a supplier corrective action request (SCAR) process, and minimize product liability and risks while improving the bottom line.

Extending the Scope of Operational Audits
Join us for this webinar to see how several global Fortune 1000 companies have successfully upgraded from legacy audit systems, point-solutions and desktop tools to an integrated and flexible audit Management framework to manage audit processes across the enterprise.

Effective and Efficient Audit Management for Quality Management System
It is clear that the auditor?s job has grown in complexity. This leads to many opportunities for auditors to be value-added suppliers to the auditee organizations. In this webinar, Dr. Sandford Liebesman, Quality Management System consultant, will review common bottlenecks and productivity issues in audit Management and the possible ways to address them.

How to Implement Change Control: Best Practices for Operational Excellence
An enterprise wide change Management solution is a key requirement for managing and controlling change for operational excellence as well as for regulatory compliance. In this webinar, we will review common bottlenecks and issues related to change control and how to implement it across your own industry sectors and it?s best practices by leveraging a paper-less and workflow-based system.

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CAPA Management Datasheet
Corrective Action/Preventive Action (CAPA) is the core of a sound quality management system and is central to a closed loop, continuous improvement process. MetricStream CAPA is a comprehensive solution that enables companies to streamline their CAPA processes across the enterprise.

Nonconformance Management Datasheet
Managing material and process nonconformance to minimize its impact on the product quality and ensuring that the cause of the nonconformance is uncovered and eliminated is one of the central functions of an organization's quality unit. The MetricStream solution supports identification, evaluation, segregation and disposition of nonconforming material as well as case investigation and tracking, possibly leading to a corrective action (CAPA).

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