Quality Inspection without Containment is Impotent
NAPLES, FL – September 1, 2011 - Manufacturers today are genuinely concerned about product quality. Many factors drive this concern, from consumer safety, product reliability, and return/reject costs through recall exposure and brand protection. Quality can have a significant effect on the top line, the bottom line, and enterprise value. So, it is no surprise that manufacturing plants worldwide have established quality standards, together with inspection and testing procedures.
What may come as a surprise is the exposure to high cost events such as customer returns, recalls, and even litigation still exists even though quality processes, inspections, sampling, and testing are conducted. Until the material found to be suspect by these procedures is contained, manufacturers are running at risk: Risk of known bad product getting out the door, risk of known bad materials used in the making of products, and risk of customers and consumers utilizing product that has been internally documented as suspect!
The manufacturing traceability experts at VIA have developed a solution to this problem. Vital Quarantine® provides a single system to approve or reject production and manufacturing lots with recorded evidence (test results, samples, etc.), automatically place containers or pallets on hold and release from hold appropriately, coordinate that information between shop floor or factory systems and business systems (ERP), and help manage the quarantine of suspect materials.
Working in conjunction with existing quality processes and procedures, as well as existing systems, Vital Quarantine ® works to help ensure that bad product does not get shipped. When used in conjunction with VIA’s Man-IT ®, Vital Quarantine® works to help ensure bad inbound material does not get used in the manufacture of product, that products are built to specification including Bill of Materials and Routing enforcement, that products are labeled properly, and that people, processes, and component lots are fully traced.
- Common system, COTS, professionally developed, maintained, and supported.
- Approve/reject at multiple levels (lot, shift, line, time range, container range).
- Record quality evidence.
- Automate on hold / off hold at container level.
- Coordinate data flow between systems.
- Help manage containment / quarantine.
Vital Quarantine ® includes a user interface that quality personnel can use to identify and quarantine suspect material within the system, as well as record test results and other evidence. User interfaces also exist for the design and modification of the links between your MES (shop floor) and ERP systems through Vital Quarantine ®.
VIA recognized that significant risk exists when quality determinations are made, yet no automated containment facility is in place. Vital Quarantine ® was developed to mitigate those risks, make existing quality systems and procedures more valuable, and ultimately to help “Make everything like lives depend on it” ®.
About VIA
VIA is a world leader in critical traceability and process validation software. Founded in 1987, VIA has established a worldwide customer base with its Man-IT® software running on five continents, in over 30 countries.
Contact
Matt Warren
Technical Engineer
VIA Information Tools, Inc.
1092 Business Lane
Naples, FL 34110
Office: 248-208-1700 Ext: 5112
matt.warren@via-it.com
Fax: 865-380-0885
Mobile: 248-930-2175
