Why choose 1factory over another product?
1. Return on Investment (ROI):
1factory delivers the largest and fastest Return on Investment (ROI) compared to any system on the market. Unlike other systems that take years to deliver a Return on Investment, 1factory delivers an ROI in weeks! With 1factory, our customers save thousands of man-hours each year, and reduce scrap and rework costs.
- Quality Planning: 1factory simplifies and speeds-up quality planning with powerful functionality for automated ballooning, tabulated plans, composite plans, and version control.
- PPAP Creation:1factory simplifies the creation of PPAPs (PFMEA, Control Plan etc.) and reduces PPAP time from days to hours.
- Measurement Data Collection: 1factory speeds-up data-entry by making it easy to collect data at point-of-manufacture. You can record data via the keyboard, from digital gages, from CMMs, and from .txt, .csv, or .xls files.
- Change Control & Synchronization: 1factory automatically logs all changes, and ensures that everyone is working off of the latest version. No more lost, mislabeled, or down-rev spreadsheets to worry about.
- Data Analysis: 1factory provides real-time feedback to factory technicians in the form of easy-to-interpret charts (run-charts, histograms). These charts are supported by automated statistical calculations.
- Data Reporting: 1factory delivers formatted reports at the click of a button, saving hours of reporting time.
- Reduce Defects: 1factory provides technicians, quality engineers and factory managers with actionable real-time analysis to prevent defects and reduce scrap and rework.
- Improve Processes: In the event of a problem, 1factory makes it easy for manufacturing, quality control, and engineering team members, to access data, so they can work together and solve problems quickly and minimize customer impact.
- Build Customer Confidence: With 1factory, our customer deliver better quality, build customer confidence with data, and grow their business.
- Meet All Requirements: 1factory helps ensure that all regulatory, customer and industry standard (ISO 9001, ISO13485) requirements are covered by procedures.
- Ensure Latest Revisions: 1factory eliminates paper and word documents, and ensures that ever user is trained and working with only the latest revision of a document.
- Ensure Up-to-Date Training: 1factory makes it easy to assign training by role or by user, and to track training status (pending, past-due, and complete).
1.1. Save Time (Productivity)
1factory simplifies, automates and speeds-up QC tasks saving thousands of man-hours each year and dramatically increasing the QC team's output.
1.2. Improve Yield (Quality)
1factory improves factory first-pass-yield, freeing-up production capacity and cutting rework and scrap costs.
1.3. Simplify Compliance (Audit Readiness)
1factory simplifies, automates and speeds-up Document Control and Training Management, ensuring that you are always prepared for an audit and are not scrambling to find and update documents, training, and records at the very last minute.
2. Powerful All-in-One feature set: More features than any other product
No other system on the market offers the breadth and depth of functionality that 1factory offers.
With 1factory, our customers typically replace multiple systems for Ballooning, FAIs, In-Process Data Collection & SPC, Real-Time Data Collection and Monitoring, NCR & CAPA management, Statistical Process Control, Process Capability, Gage R&R, Gage Calibration, Document Control and Training.
3. New Features every 3 to 6 weeks
Our unique product development process combines our years of deep manufacturing work experience, combined with customer feedback collected during factory visits, to deliver incredibly powerful features and a release cadence that our competitors cannot match. Your experience gets better every 6 weeks.
4. Easiest-to-Use of any product
1factory is incredibly easy-to-use, and is RATED #1 for ease-of-use by factory-floor and engineering users alike.
5. Fastest Implementation Time: Go Live in 2 Hours
Your team will have their accounts created in minutes, and will be trained and live with the first set of Plans and Inspections in under two hours.
6. Lightning-Fast Performance: Fastest product on the market
Customers describe 1factory as "lightning fast" (please see video testimonial here from minute 03:01 to 03:12) with drawings processed in seconds and data saved in a fraction of a second. In comparison, our competitor's products are very very slow: they take a long time to read and balloon drawings, and more importantly record measurement data very slowly.
1factory saves a measurement within a fraction of a second. Our competitors take 8 to 15 seconds to save a single measurement, frustrating the factory floor users. 1factory also processes CMM files within seconds and delivers instant feedback from the CMM to the machinist enabling real-time process control. Our competitors take 7 to 10 minutes per CMM file; by the time the data is loaded, more bad parts have been produced.
7. ZERO IT Overhead
1factory is web-based, and does not add IT complexity. All you need is an internet connection, and a web-browser. 1factory works with your existing data collection methods, allowing you to unlock productivity without a huge investment in new hardware.
8. No Hidden Costs
Our pricing is simple and affordable with no hidden costs. Your subscription includes support and on-going product enhancements.
9. No concurrent user limitations
Our powerful engineering ensures that thousands of users from across 15 countries can access the system at the same time without any loss of performance.
10. Scalability
1factory can easily handle Drawings, Plans, and Inspections with over a thousand parameters and lot sizes of thousands of parts, i.e. it can handle inspections requiring more than 1 million measurements per lot (1000 features x 1000 parts). 1factory effortlessly collects data from hundreds of workcenters and CMMs from across the factory floor.
1factory handles thousands of concurrent users with no loss of performance.
11. True Customer Success
Unlike our competitors for whom a sale is a transaction, at 1factory, we are heavily invested in your success. Our customer success team will happily train new users, help answer questions, and visit your site to collect feedback and new feature requests.