QDM Quality Data Management

How Does QDM Quality Management System Work?

QDM works as a quality platform to track, standardize and report your quality data.

As a modular system, QDM can be configured in hundreds of different ways. To make things easier for new clients, DCS provides 3 ready-to-use configurations based on deployment size to give you a starting point.

Setting Up a QDM Platform

A QDM Platform starts with a central server. All your data will be hosted on this server on a QDM Gateway. The server can be an on-premises server behind your company’s firewall or in the cloud, managed and secured by leading cloud providers and updated by DCS.

Once the server is set up, modules connect to it to extend the system into your ecosystem. These allow the system to collect data, allow your team to create templates and forms to populate with data to create reports, allow users to have custom dashboards, reports, and access to customers, as well as custom modules for floor visibility, advanced root cause analysis, and more. With so many options, it’s important to map out your current process and production and then decide which areas you want to support. Don’t worry about doing everything, you can always expand the system later!

While starting from scratch can be daunting, DCS provides three pre-configured module deployments to get you started. You can choose one of these and then customize it, or start by choosing your own modules.

QDM Platform users log in to the system via any web browser and device – laptop, desktop, phone, tablet. Each user has a Client assigned to them with their profile, what information they can access, and custom dashboards, automated and saved reports, and custom report creation tools. From there, the user can navigate the system to find additional information about part, product, and program quality, and instantly view metrics, dashboards, and reports.

Components of the QDM Quality Platform

Each QDM Platform is unique, but they share some common components. The most common components in QDM systems are:

  • QDM Gateway – the central server and heart of the system.
  • QDM Analyst Template Builder – the tool used to create report templates and forms for the system.
  • QDM Clients – user profiles assigned to allow your team to access the system and determine what is visible to them.
  • QDM Datagrabber – the module used to automate data collection.

Track Quality in Real Time

Real-time monitoring of your production line provides continuous visibility into your production quality. Track trends for out-of-spec parts or out-of-spec scenarios. Reduce downtime, defects, and nonconformances by addressing production issues immediately and resolve issues before parts go out of spec.

Analyze SPC and Trends

QDMWEB QI offers you advanced SPC analysis. This comes in the form of dashboards and analysis reports that can be presented to interested parties in your organization. These provide analytics in the form of Cpk, Cp, Ppk and Pp, as well as comparisons, trends and historical analysis. Select specific auxiliary fields by location, time, machine, part or operator.

Start Your Day with All the Data You Need

QDM Quality Management Systems process your data and generate statistical reports in seconds. Users can select reports to be updated with new data at specific intervals and gain instant access to decision-making information. Create workflows to provide a constant flow of new information to stakeholders and users based on their roles.

Automated Reports

Set up workflows to get reports ready for you when you need them. Set them up for daily reports, weekly updates, or final data sets on every part, program, and product.

Graphical SPC Reports Give Data Context

The data you need is always at your fingertips.

Communicate Across the Organization and with Customers

QDMWEB QI offers both custom and automated reporting. Users can select specific data sets, then choose from pre-built forms to automatically create custom reports in seconds.

Regular Updates

Always keep everyone involved up to date on the latest information about their programs.

Information with Alerts

Provide information about issues with automatic alerts to jump on issues and resolve them quickly.

Supplier Quality

Have your supplier information automatically compiled and sent to supplier managers, customers and/or quality professionals to stay informed about supplier quality assurance.

Resolve Production and Quality Issues Quickly

Use QDMWEB QI to troubleshoot production problems and predict production issues before they happen.

This gives you the ability to find and fix issues before they become problems, reducing scrap, rework, and warranty claims.

Stay up-to-date on your production quality with trend reports and automated alerts.

Use custom reports to drill down and find exactly where and why your production is experiencing problems. Is there a bad part? Is a machine worn out? Is an operator performing poorly? Find the answers you need fast.

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