Quality data is captured at the operation that produced it rather than transcribed afterward. Checklists and limits at the work center, serial and batch traceability through every level of the build, and rules that stop a unit advancing until it passes.
What changes for you
Checks captured at the station, with rules that hold
Checklists, on and off limits and special rules at the work center. Where a rule says a unit cannot advance without a pass, it does not advance. The check happens where the work happened, by the person who did it, at the moment it matters.
Genealogy in both directions
From a finished unit down to every component and material batch inside it, and from a batch up to every unit it ended up in. The second direction is the one that decides how wide a containment has to be when a supplier issues a notice.
The wrong part stopped before it is fitted
Serial and batch validation checks that what is being scanned belongs where it is going. A component from the wrong lot or a superseded revision is stopped at the station rather than at final inspection.
Scrap, rework and root cause attributed
Scrapped parts and reworks are logged against the order and the operation that produced them as they happen, so yield is visible per job rather than per month. Downtime carries alarms and root cause analysis attached to the same record.
The audit is an export
The QC report pulls the record that already exists rather than assembling one. Epifor does not certify you, but when an auditor asks what was checked, by whom, against which limit and on which unit, the answer is a search.
The screens you live in
Genealogy tree
Down to every component, up to every unit.
QC report
What was checked, by whom, against which limit.
Scrap and rework
By order and cause, as it happens.
Downtime log
Stoppages with alarms and root cause analysis.