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The Cost of Quality
Benchmarking Enterprise Quality Management
 
How leading manufacturers transformed disparate silos of quality data into actionable intelligence to improve product quality and reduce costs.

 

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Best Practices Covered

Learn how MetricStream customer, Fairchild Semiconductor:
  • Measures the cost of total quality, the cost of poor quality, and product quality issue response cycle time
  • Achieved a 40% decrease in product quality issue response cycle time leading to a significant reduction in the cost of quality
Key quality management processes studied:
  • CAPA (corrective and preventive actions)
  • Non-conformance Reporting
  • Process Change Notification to Customers
  • Internal Process Change Document Routing and Approval

  Related Information

Case Study
Fairchild Semiconductor: Aligning Global Quality Processes with Customer Focus

Announcements
Fairchild Semiconductor Selects MetricStream Software for Enterprise Quality Management System

Metricstream Software For Customer Quality Management Used By Sandisk

MetricStream worked very closely  
  with our quality and reliability organization to develop these applications. We believe that these modules capture the best practices
in customer quality management in
 
  the industry today.
 
Mark Rioux
Vice President of Global Quality & Reliability, Fairchild Semiconductor