Powerful, Easy-to-Use, Lightning-Fast
Manufacturing Quality Control Software.
Automate and speed-up manufacturing quality control tasks from drawing ballooning and quality planning through inspection data collection, analysis & reporting. Improve factory yield. Deliver world-class quality.
SPEED-UP QC TASKS. IMPROVE YIELD. DELIVER WORLD CLASS QUALITY.
SPEED-UP QUALITY CONTROL TASKS
“1factory is a complete game changer for our quality department. It reduces time spent preparing inspection reports by roughly 66%. Implementation and full integration took 2 hours. If you are not running 1factory, your quality department is behind the times.”
K. Krueger, General Manager, West Valley Precision
IMPROVE YIELD. SHIP WORLD CLASS QUALITY
“With 1factory, problems are identified at the machine, and corrections are made early in the manufacturing process, improving our overall manufacturing flow. Our customers have been impressed seeing their parts being inspected at the source of manufacturing with real time data.”
S. Harney, Quality Manager, JWP Manufacturing
OVERVIEW
WHAT IS MANUFACTURING QUALITY CONTROL?
Manufacturing quality control is the set of activities performed to prevent or detect problems before they affect the final product. Quality control involves carefully monitoring production processes, measuring products, and maintaining detailed documentation.
There are several essential activities: quality planning, first-piece inspections, in-process inspections, gage calibration, and problem-solving procedures. Together, these elements help manufacturers ensure quality, and improve their production yield.
Success depends on having immediate access to quality data throughout the production process. This allows teams to spot trends, make informed decisions, and take swift action when needed - ultimately ensuring that every product meets or exceeds customer expectations.
WHAT MAKES MANUFACTURING QUALITY CONTROL CHALLENGING?
Today's manufacturing environment faces mounting complexity: proliferating product features, frequent design changes, and an explosion of process parameters requiring control.
Quality teams struggle to consolidate data from diverse inspection equipment and formats, while outdated systems force reliance on manual spreadsheets.
Without real-time visibility into production quality data, manufacturers cannot respond quickly to emerging issues, leading to yield losses and quality escapes.
These challenges affect everyone from operators on the shop floor to quality managers seeking process improvements.
THE 1FACTORY MANUFACTURING QUALITY CONTROL SOLUTION
1factory transforms manufacturing quality control by streamlining processes for operators, engineers, and managers.
Our platform dramatically simplifies data collection and analysis at the point of inspection, saving operators hundreds of hours while ensuring accurate, real-time data capture.
For quality engineers and managers, we convert this streamlined data into actionable intelligence, automatically identifying process trends and providing early warning of quality risks.
By replacing multiple systems and spreadsheets with one powerful solution, we enable manufacturers to respond instantly to quality issues, improve yields, and deliver world-class quality while unlocking unprecedented productivity gains across the organization.
FEATURES
1Drawing Auto-Ballooning
Auto-balloon or point-and-click to balloon drawings in minutes. Capture and extract Characteristic, Nominals, Tolerances, GD&T, Threads, Notes, Sheet Number, & Zone to a Plan with just a few clicks. Learn More
2Drawing Rev Comparison
Enjoy fully-automated drawing revision comparison and instantly identify additions, deletions and changes in characteristics, nominals, tolerances, and notes.
3Inspection Plans
Create Manufacturing Quality Control Plans. Define Characteristics, Specifications, Inspection Methods, Operation Numbers, and Sampling Rules. Track changes with Plan History and Version Control. Ensure factory-floor is always working to the latest released version of documents.
4Tabulated Plans
Easily manage tabulated drawings with thousands of configurations via a single Inspection Plan for the family. 1factory automatically generates the inspection sheet for each configuration with all required common and part-specific features.
5Spec Library Plans
Create reusable "Libraries of Specs" for industry standards (e.g. ports for hydraulics) and for common inspection elements. Quickly assemble product-specific plans from libraries.
6Unit Conversion
1factory provides automated unit conversion from mm to inch and from inch to mm. So if your customer drawing is in mm, unit conversion activated in the Plan, your factory can record data in inches, and output a report in mm for your customer.
7First Article (FAI, AS9102)
Balloon drawings, import CMM data, and create a First Article Inspection report in minutes. Link component FAIs to parent assembly FAI. Output FAIs for easy upload to Net Inspect or other portals.
8Automated CMM Data Import
Automate data collection from CMMs, Vision Systems, and connected digital gages. Improve speed and accuracy of manufacturing quality control data collection. Supported devices include Zeiss, Keyence, PCDMIS, Mitutoyo and many more. Learn More
9In-Process Inspection
Measure features at the correct step in the manufacturing process. Enforce frequency based or AQL sampling. Record hand-held tool and CMM data. Detect problems at source.
10Process Capability Cpk, Ppk
Automatically calculate Process Capability (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk) metrics for features with: bilateral equal tolerances, bilateral unequal tolerances, unilateral tolerance, GD&T with bonus tolerances and more.
11Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Use individuals charts and Western Electric Rules to control manufacturing processes. Detect trends and anomalies quickly at the point of manufacture. Notify engineers and managers of out-of-control events.
12Final Inspection
Inspect finished parts and products. Automate sample size calculation. Ensure all data is collected. Associate raw material and outside processing certs. Generate inspection reports for customers.
13PPAP Master Library
Build a library of failure modes by Manufacturing Process (e.g. Mill-Turn, Grinding, Plating, Deburring etc.). Automatically populate a part-number-specific PFMEA with Failure Modes, Effects, Severity, Causes, etc. from the Library and save hours of time.
14PFMEA (AIAG, AS13100)
Build and maintain part-number-specific PFMEAs with version control. Identify product-feature and process failure modes. Output PFMEA reports in AIAG/APQP, or AS13000 formats with a single-click.
15Control Plan
Balloon your drawing, and extract features to a Control Plan with just a few clicks. Assign Inspection Methods, Sampling Rules, and Reaction Plans to a single parameter or a group of parameters. Output Control Plan in AIAG/APQP standard format with a single click.
16PPAP Log
Assemble the various PPAP elements - Process Flow, Control Plan, PFMEA, Measurement Data, Certs, Gage R&R etc. - from engineering, manufacturing, quality control etc. into PPAP packages for customers. Create and manage delta PPAPs as processes change.
17Gage Calibration
Maintain calibration records for thousands of gages. Log actual calibration data against gage tolerances and/or attach certs. Receive notifications when gages are due for calibration.
18Gage Issue / Return
Transact Gages between Tool Crib, Factory Floor, and Calibration Vendors with simple barcode scanning. Track gages by location, machine, work order, calibration vendor and user.
19Gage Kits
Organize and manage part-number-specific kits of gages e.g. pin gages, thread gages, or other gages that are custom to a part or a family of parts. Easily find and transact all the gages required for a given part.
20Gage R&R / MSA
Perform Variable Gage R&Rs. Configure number of operators, parts and trials. Instantly generate reports for both the ANOVA and Range methods. Accept/reject based on NDC, % Tolerance, % Contribution etc.
21NCRs, CAPAs, SCARs, Complaints
Record and track issues reported by incoming inspection, manufacturing, field service, and customers. Pareto and filter issues by problem type, root cause, date-range, part number, supplier, etc.
22Traceability
Track and retrieve manufacturing quality control data by Work Order, Serial Number, Date Code, Operator, Machine ID, Spindle, Cavity, Gage ID, Measurement Date & Time. Ensure uniqueness of serial numbers across inspection lots. Easily retrieve data for containment and recalls.
23Real Time Analytics
Instantly analyze manufacturing quality control data with built-in lightning-fast analytics without expensive 3rd-party BI tools. Analyze data across work-orders and drive process improvements.
24Audit Readiness
Digitize all manufacturing quality control activities. Ensure gages are calibrated, measurements are recorded, and required certs are attached. Track non-conformances to completion. Always be ready for an audit.
25Calculated Specs
Automate the calculation of derived values such as averages, deviations, sums, differences, products, ratios etc. Save hours of calculation time and eliminate errors.
26Multi-Parameter SPC
Monitor all critical parameters with multipel run charts on a single screen. Equip operators with tools to detect and address process anomalies in real-time.
27Inspections by Operation
Automate the creation of inspection records for each Operation (and optionally for each machine). Set varying lot sizes for each Operation (and/or machine) to accomodate varying capacities and yield loss. Track completion status and yield by Operation.
28Validation & eSignatures (21 CFR Part 11)
Quickly validate the system with a validation package from 1factory. Capture user signatures every time a unit of work is completed. Learn More
CASE STUDIES
Ultra Machining Company (UMC) - Manufacturing Quality
UMC is a manufacturer of high-precision components for medical device, aerospace, and defense applications. The products are complex, with 100 — 800 features per product.
With 1factory, UMC successfully consolidated 5 separate QC systems into 1. Today, data is automatically uploaded from 20 CMMs and 8 VCMMs, 24 hours a day. Over 1 million measurements are recorded in 1factory each month. Auto-ballooning speeds up FAI creation. And hours are saved from each PPAP package creation.
Watch a 4-minute video to hear first-hand experiences from the cross-functional UMC team: Machinists, Quality Engineers, Director of Quality, VP of IT, and VP of Operations.
EASY TO USE. LIGHTNING FAST.
INTUITIVE DESIGN
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 encryption 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 26 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.
500+ CUSTOMERS. 25+ COUNTRIES. 20+ INDUSTRIES.
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AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT
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