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, eliminate paper and Word documents, improve yield, and ensure audit-readiness
1.1. Save Time (Productivity)
1factory simplifies, automates and speeds-up Manufacturing Quality Control tasks saving thousands of man-hours each year and dramatically increasing the QC team's output.
- 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.
1.2. Improve Yield (Quality)
1factory improves factory first-pass-yield, freeing-up production capacity and cutting rework and scrap costs.
- 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.
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.
- 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).
1.4. Reduce System Complexity & Chaos
With 1factory, manufacturers simplify processes, and typically consolidate five or more systems into one (examples: ballooning, first articles, spc, ppap, gage calibration,, and document control.).