FTP Quality Workbench enhances incoming inspection capabilities by allowing you to define part number and supplier specific attributes for data collection at incoming inspection. A part number subject to incoming inspection may have both generic attribute requirements (to be applied to receipts from any supplier) as well as supplier specific quality data collection requirements defined. Parts subject to incoming inspection for which quality attributes have been defined must have all attributes collected as required before final receipt is allowed. These features allow you monitor part and vendor specific quality performance.

Tools of all types can be defined, maintained, monitored and controlled using FTP Quality Workbench. Tool calibration and preventative maintenance facilities can be utilized independently within the FTP Quality Workbench module to control and maintain tool use. By defining operation links between bill of material components and FTP Quality Workbench defined engineering routings tool use may be specified, controlled and tracked to assure that only in-calibration tooling is used. There is no limit on what may be defined as a "tool". Examples of tools that can be maintained to your quality standards include hand tools, semi-automated or automated machinery, fixtures, molds, test, inspection, measuring or maintenance equipment.

Integration of work order bills of material with FTP Quality Workbench routing operations and tools specified to perform operation provides the ability to guarantee the use of only certified "in-service" tooling. User specified Master Control Block settings allow for varied levels of tooling control. As defined tool use business rules are enforced when performing FTP Quality Workbench Move and/or Time Ticket transactions. Whenever a tool is signed out for use the program automatically validates that tool taken is within business defined quality parameters. Control parameters include calibration date or preventative maintenance requirements.

Jobs descriptions may be defined within FTP Quality Workbench by associating a job with the skills required to qualify for the job and/or the skills expected of an employee hired into the position. Standard FTP Quality Workbench reports list employee training requirements to overcome skills deficiencies within their current jobs or required to qualify for alternative jobs within the business.

FTP Quality Workbench reports provide for quick identification of employees possessing a skill or skills. Standard reports also provide for identification of employees possessing all skills and/or certifications defined as required to perform User defined process(es).

FTP Quality Workbench engineering and production routings facilitate the definition and collection of quality control data to provide the empirical evidence required to monitor your quality system performance. Routing operations may specify performance of defined quality "steps". In addition, product attributes may be specified and collected subject to program validation. All quality data is available for data analysis via a comprehensive set of standard reports including pareto analysis. Quality step and attribute data collection may be subject to User definable statistical process control parameters. 

Collecting quality data is only valuable if you can make productive use of it to improve your business. FTP Quality Workbench provides a number of standard reports that allow you to reach into your collect quality data and organize it to provide a meaningful view into the health of your business and the products and services it produces. Detail and summary quality data reporting by part number (component or assembly), product line, product type (a new field provided by FTP Quality Workbench to better organize manufactured product from an inside the organization perspective), warehouse, entity, workorder or employee are at your command. Pareto analysis by date range can be reported in near real time to allow close monitoring of changes to overall product quality.

Implementation of a dynamic corrective action system is key to the success of any quality system. Failure to establish and maintain a functional system for documenting and processing corrective actions for continuous quality improvement is frequently cited by ISO Registrars and other industry analysts as a "major" flaw in existing quality systems. FTP Quality Workbench provides a proactive, workflow enabled corrective action reporting and resolution integrated across the application. Corrective Actions ("CAR"s) can be associated with sales orders, workorders, purchase orders, or any business or quality system issue that requires analysis, feedback and response to affect desired continuous improvement. Enhanced workflow capability prompts responsible Users to provide timely closure of each CAR. IQ access to corrective action details from any perspective guarantees real time access to your quality improvement efforts implemented with corrective actions taken.

FTP Quality Workbench product route sheets provide a higher degree of standard product costing accuracy. This is accomplished by providing the ability to designate costing batch size to accurately allocated product setup resource costs on a per assembly basis. Standard process definitions used in the construction of route sheet operations provide for a higher degree of operation costing accuracy by allowing the definition of process standard formulas to accurately calculate true standard times for each operation. Improving your ability to determine accurate standard costs provides immediate value by improving your ability to formulate accurate pricing for quotation.

The real time FTP Quality Workbench document viewing system provides context sensitive access and display of reference documents that are maintained or contained within the backend database. Secure on-line access for reference to documents such as CAD drawings, images, word processing documents, process flow charts, or web pages located anywhere on your Intranet or the Internet is available for immediate use from most FTP Quality Workbench screens. Mapped documents are displayed in their own viewing window and are automatically updated with each change of screen context you make within the Atronix ERP application. Web enabled administration tools provide simplified document mapping maintenance capabilities. With the FTP Quality Workbench document viewing system you can assure all Users access to the documents they need when they need them!