Which Edition is right for me?

Standard Edition - Customer Attributes:

• Manufacturing company with less than $50 million in annual sales
• Not design responsible
• Staff of less than 5 quality professionals for developing and managing all the PPAP documentation
• One single location

Standard Edition - Customer Pains:

• Time to create documents for similar products going to different customers with unique formatting requirements
• Time to maintain the documents - especially interrelated documents
• Time to change/approve documents
• Time spent following up on getting document approved quickly
• Time to disseminate update
• Audit nonconformances due to documents being out of synch

Professional Edition - Customer Attributes:

• Usually $500 million or less in sales
• May have some design responsibility
• APQP/PPAP documentation is developed by individuals in different departments - and possibly at multiple locations
• Looking at ISO 9000/TS 16949 as an approach for advancing the organization’s business strategy

Enterprise Edition - Customer Attributes:

• OEM or supplier with sales in excess of $500 million
• ISO 9001 (Design responsible)
• APQP/PPAP documentation is developed by individuals in different departments - usually in different locations. Has similar production at global locations; each plant responsible for its own control plans.
• Utilizes ISO 9000/TS 16949 as an approach for advancing the organization’s business strategy
• Has locations worldwide which need access to the same business documents as well as those unique to their own location

Professional/Enterprise - Customer Pains:

• Time to create documents for similar products going to different customers with unique formatting requirements
• Time to maintain the documents - especially interrelated documents
• Time to change/approve documents
  • Lack of a capability to track status of document changes and expedite document change
  • Redundancy of activities/documents; different locations generating the same documents which have unique "twists"
• Time spent following up on getting document approved quickly
• Time to disseminate update
  • Time spent following up with personnel on getting change
  • Errors/cost caused by inconsistent versioning of documents
• Audit nonconformances due to documents being out of synch
• Difficulty in gathering and documenting customer expectation information in a form readily accessible to those who need it
• Management of continual improvement
  • Lack of complete or consistent documentation supporting continual improvement meetings
• Lack of consistent metrics used worldwide
  • The number of different but similarly focused metrics gathered worldwide leads to confusion and improper comparisons
• Lack of consistent audit management
• Lack of coordination of audits worldwide
• Lack of full utilization of auditors worldwide
• Inability to manage the rectification of audit non-conformances worldwide and within one plant
  • Excessive amount of time spent of working on following up on the status of nonconformances
• No standardized audit requirements and forms worldwide
  • Each location creates its own set of audit documentation
• Time spent developing system audit report
• Lack of a capability to link audit schedules with process performance and organizational performance