Powerful, Easy-to-Use, Lightning-Fast
Incoming Quality Control (IQC) Software.
Speed-up incoming quality control. Verify critical component quality. Use intelligent data-driven lot-switching to focus attention on the highest risk parts and suppliers. Reduce unnecessary inspections and drive-down costs.
VERIFY INCOMING COMPONENT QUALITY. REDUCE DEFECT RISK AND INSPECTION COST.
EFFICIENCY & COST SAVINGS
“This software is amazing what it can do!! The efficiency and cost-effectiveness alone was a big win for us. This software provides less paper work, fewer errors, more quality, monitoring capabilities, spec. requirements, inspection plans, supplier dashboards, all of this and so much more. And did I mention the money it saved in labor...outstanding!!! Altogether a winning situation.”
M. Carrasco, IQC Manager, Viavi Systems
OVERVIEW
WHAT IS INCOMING QUALITY CONTROL?
Incoming Quality Control (IQC) serves as a critical defense against defective supplier parts entering production.
Despite supplier quality agreements and certifications, manufacturers must verify incoming materials against specifications through systematic inspection and testing.
This encompasses everything from dimensional measurements and material verification to functional testing and documentation review.
However, traditional IQC alone often proves inadequate - by the time defects are caught at incoming inspection, entire shipments may be affected and production schedules already compromised.
WHAT MAKES INCOMING QUALITY CONTROL CHALLENGING?
Today's manufacturers face mounting pressure on their incoming inspection teams: increasing part complexity, proliferating product variants, and accelerating delivery schedules.
Quality teams struggle to prioritize inspections effectively, often resorting to time-consuming spreadsheets to track requirements and results.
Without real-time visibility into supplier quality trends, manufacturers cannot adjust inspection protocols dynamically, leading to either excessive inspection costs or increased risk of defect escapes.
Communication gaps between IQC, supplier quality, and production teams further compound these challenges.
THE 1FACTORY INCOMING QUALITY CONTROL SOLUTION
1factory revolutionizes incoming inspection by dramatically speeding up the process while improving effectiveness.
Our intelligent lot-switching algorithms recommend tightened or reduced inspection requirements based on supplier performance trends, focusing attention on the highest risk parts and suppliers while reducing unnecessary inspections of proven components.
For IQC operators, we simplify data collection and provide instant access to relevant history. Quality managers gain real-time analytics to optimize inspection protocols, simultaneously improving quality assurance while driving down costs.
This smart, data-driven approach ensures critical component quality while unlocking significant productivity gains for IQC teams.
KEY IQC FEATURES
1 Incoming Inspection Plans
Balloon drawings or import spec sheets to create Incoming Inspection Plans. Define inspection methods, work instructions, and sampling rules for each feature. List approved suppliers. Track changes with history and version control.
2 Incoming First Article
Create First Article records and verify supplier first articles in minutes with digital IQC data collection from hand-held tools, Vision Systems, and CMMs.
3 Sample Size Calculation
Set-up sampling requirements based on C=0, ANSI Z1.4, MIL-STD, customer-provided, and custom sampling plans. Auto-calculate sample size for each feature based on lot size and sampling plan. Ensure all required measurements are recorded before inspections are closed.
4 Lot Switching
Use built-in lot switching rules (Normal, Reduced, Tightened) and decision-support data, to tighten or reduce inspection requirements based on historical part and supplier performance. Increase sampling for high-risk parts and suppliers, and reduce sampling for low-risk parts and suppliers.
5 Record Measurements & Certs
Inspect incoming components. Capture visual and dimensional checks, and associate raw material and outside processing certificates of conformance.
6 Digital IQC Data Capture
Record measurement data from digital gages with a single click. Auto-import millions of measurements from Vision systems and CMMs in seconds. Eliminate unnecessary data entry, errors, and paperwork.
7 Supplier Dashboard & Scorecard
Monitor ongoing Quality and On-Time-Delivery performance for each supplier. Compare part-quality performance across suppliers. Generate supplier scorecards with a single click.
8 NCRs and SCARS
Generate a non-conformance report from within an inspection with a single click. Create and assign Supplier Corrective Action Reports (SCARs). Review supplier responses and track SCARs to completion.
CASE STUDIES
Orbit Irrigation - Incoming Quality Control (IQC)
Orbit Irrigation is the world's largest manufacturer of sprinkler heads, smart timers, valves, manifolds, and other accessories for residential, agricultural, and commercial irrigation systems. These complex assemblies contain dozens to hundreds of mechanical and electrical components sourced from suppliers around the globe.
With 1factory, Orbit Irrigation was able to move away from paper and excel to digital incoming inspection planning, data collection, and analysis. Once 1factory was selected, the results were practically immediate. "The time savings and reporting accuracy just went through the roof with 1factory, and so many of my tasks have been simplified," says Robin Bushman, Quality Manager at Orbit Irrigation.
EASY TO USE. LIGHTNING FAST.
EASE-OF-USE
1factory is designed for the front-line of quality control with design inputs and ideas from our users. 1factory's intuitive navigation and best-in-class screen-designs make training a breeze. Training and full-deployment takes under two hours with no disruption to operations.
LIGHTNING-FAST SPEED
1factory is engineered to be lightning-fast. We serve customers all over the world 24 hours a day, 7 seven days a week, 365 days a year. Our customers in United States, Mexico, Canada, Israel, China, South Africa, Denmark, UK, India, Malaysia, Taiwan all enjoy lightning-fast data collection and powerful real-time analytics.
SECURE AND RELIABLE
SECURITY
1factory is hosted on AWS GovCloud. The AWS GovCloud service is an isolated Amazon region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads, including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) data.
All customer data transfer from client to server is encrypted over standard HTTPS/TLS 1.2, using a certificate with 2048-bit RSA public key / SHA-256 with RSA encryption. All customer data is encrypted at rest. Data (e.g. Part Numbers, Measurements etc.) are stored in an encrypted Amazon RDS instance. Drawings, Raw Material Certificates etc. are stored on encrypted Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. Drawings and other documents may be additionally encrypted with individual enryption keys.
1factory complies with all NIST-800-171 requirements. 1factory also maintains a SOC2 Type 2 certification, and a copy is available upon request.
RELIABILITY
1factory has been engineered to be highly reliable, scalable and available. Over 200 million parts have been inspected with 1factory by customers in 18 countries.
1factory has delivered an uptime of >99.99% over the last 8 years. We use a third-party service to monitor system uptime, and our customers can view our uptime and availability metrics in real time.
1factory backs-up database with a daily snapshot. Files are stored on redundant hard-drives and backed up via daily snapshots.
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