January 2020, Issue 07
OPEX NEWSLETTER
The Monthly Operational Excellence Newsletter
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Guide for 2020 Quality Calendar
Have you not yet prepared calendar for crucial quality and operational activities? Here is the list for you to refer and prepare calendar for 2020. Gauge & Calibration Schedule
Tools & Dies Maintenance
Regulatory Compliance
Audit
OpExWorks can automate whole this process for you and create a common platform for all stakeholders with alerts for due, overdue actions, escalation matrix & score card. |
What's inside this issue:
Digital MSME:
Digitized traditional manual processes for quality management program effectiveness Article: How to Be the Internal Auditor Champion within your organization? Upcoming Events: Weld India 2020 : Date 07-09 February 2020 The AutoExpo Component Show – The 15th Edition : Date 06-09 February 2020 MCCIA Industry 4.0 Summit Date 04 February 2020 |
Digitized traditional manual processes for quality management program effectiveness
Many organizations failed to realize that the resistance to technology adoption in the organization can affect their growth. Even after following their strategic organizational and product roadmaps, they fall short of growth goals at the end of the year. Filing, monitoring checklists for the audits, compliance, NC will never be the sole objective of any quality program of the organizations that are aiming for sustainable growth. They will need a closed-loop quality management system to get real-time visibility on the check sheet, opportunities coming out of it and the analytics to align programs and processes with growth goals.
Digitizing the data capture and reporting will play a key role to identify opportunities for your growth plan and to sustain it on the longer horizon.
Delivering Quality Management System that Delivers Results
The success of a quality management program is when the organization is not only looking for managing concerns but also they have strong intent for the corrective actions. The effective Quality Management System (QMS) like OpExWorks will capture both and will also give real-time visibility to all stakeholders. QMS will cover all the processes and standardize across the entire manufacturing value chain. Keeping your QMS goals at the center, scalable cloud systems like OpExWorks streamlines and automated the processes across your departments, plants and even at all suppliers.
To align with the global digital transformation initiatives, the system is futuristic.
- The system is designed considering the users with different skill-sets
- The system is user-friendly for easy adoption and acceptance even at MSMEs
- Actionable insights for identifying new opportunities in your continuous improvement journey
- Mobile capabilities for a real-time performance observation
- Intuitive 100+ reports
The company’s department heads and management need a comprehensive view to implement proactive measures to improve quality performance on a continuous basis. OpExWorks QMS will give all the stakeholders real-time access to the information and performance reports across all the levels of the organization. As the analytics will uncover hidden opportunities, the organization can establish a high standard for its quality management program.
Use Actionable Insights for Quality Program Effectiveness
Setting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and evaluation mechanisms should be the prerequisite for any quality management system (QMS). The success should be measured by reduction in the rejections, failures and incident preventions. QMS should capture the success and failures of preventative measures implemented. Organizations must take a holistic view of quality to effectively integrate and manage all risks and compliance needs.
Visibility on Employee Performance
- Audit findings, closure performance
- Overdue tasks: Compliance, Non-conformity, risk assessments, or issue closure
Visibility on Program Performance
- Historical records of the company’s past customer rejections, internal rejections, NCs, incidents
- Leading Indicators – Measurements of preventative measures
Visibility on Vendors Performance
- Historical records of your suppliers’ past rejections, NCs, audit observations
- Leading Indicators – Measurements of your corrective and preventative actions
Actionable insights derived from your data can play a crucial role in the organization's quality management program. With the systematic implementation of OpExWorks QMS, organizations can set high standards not only for internal processes but for the entire supplier base. You can create a free account HERE to experience the QMS currently used by 300+ manufacturers.
| Upcoming Events: | How to Be the Internal Auditor Champion within your organization? |
| Weld India 2020
Dates: 07 – 09 February 2020
Venue: CIDCO Exhibition Grounds, Vashi, New Mumbai, India Link: https://weldic2020.in/ WELD INDIA 2020 exhibition will present an opportunity for companies in Welding Consumables, Equipments, NDT, Fabricators and allied industries to display their wares to attract the prospective consumers and gain a foothold in future growth of developing economies. AutoExpo Component Show
Dates: 06 – 09 February 2020 Venue: Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India Link: https://www.autoexpo.in/components-show/index.aspx The AutoExpo Component Show is one event that the Indian automobile industry eagerly looks forward to as here they can exhibit and experience the most advanced range of automotive components, accessories, automotive paints, steel casting, forging, engineering and plastic equipment meant for the automotive industry. MCCIA Industry 4.0 Summit
Dates: 04 February 2020 Time: 10:00:AM To 05:00:PM Venue: Bajaj Gallery, No. 9-MCCIA Trade Tower (5th Floor), S. B. Road, Pune, Maharashtra Link: https://bit.ly/3aABNK3 The main emphasis of the event is on: Policy Level Initiatives from relevant Ministries of Government of India and abroad. Sensitising the manufacturing industry about Industry 4.0 and steps leading towards it i.e. data capturing, predictive operations and maintenance, automation, digitization, data integration etc. Technology for Manufacturing : Sessions by Experts, Researchers and eminent Speakers. |
The tedious process to any internal auditor like yours is the compilation of all the audit records and findings. The whole process includes planning audits, maintaining checkpoints, revising check sheets, noting findings, observations, nonconformity, etc. Internal audits uncover the areas where your organization needs improvements in reducing environmental, health, and safety risks and hazards. The review of these internal audits is very critical for all the organizations to manage risks appropriately and to ensure processes are followed. Ignorance may lead to huge fines and penalties from external audits or may lead to losing your customer. How can you be the champion internal auditor?
Do you think auditing is time-consuming, difficult? Using OpExWorks, you can start saving time, resources for your organization and eliminate risks associated with a lengthy audit report processes, documentation efforts, and associated risks. Futuristic Plan At the beginning of the year, you should be ready with a well-prepared calendar plan for internal and external audits. Once this is done, you should communicate all the internal as well as external stakeholders in the audit process about your plan and about the expectations. This will give clarity of work and avoids frustrations. By keeping the target to be the audit-ready by end of the year, you can prepare schedules and keep reconciliations up-to-date which will reduce the overall time and efforts for audit. The benefit of collaboration between your organization and the external auditors throughout the year can avoid last-minute surprises and allow the organization to make appropriate plans or necessary changes. Audit PlatformUsing OpExWorks Audit & Compliance Platform, organizations can streamline their internal & external audit processes and it will automate your entire audit, compliance & conformity management processes. Below are the few key features:
OpExWorks Audit & Compliance Platform is the collaboration platform where each stakeholder of the audit process will be given access with unique credentials to manage their part of the audit process. They can access applicable audits and compliance, note down their observations. It is the ideal system for internal auditors to securely record observations together with photos, videos and recordings captured in the field and it can further extend your teams' productivity with the easy access to regulatory compliance and to internal audit protocols. The objective is not to only note observations but also to minimize gap between internal & external audits. With its 4 level escalation matrix, OpExWorks Audit & Compliance Platform will make sure all the NCs and recommended actions are completed along with its assessment. Ready for the External AuditWorld's 3rd largest 2-wheeler manufacturing company uses OpExWorks Audit & Compliance Platform to transformed its manual audit and compliance management process in the supply chain to a completely paperless with real-time data visibility & analytics and achieved the highest value addition. Currently, they can manage 300+ monthly and weekly mandatory compliance submissions from their 50+ suppliers on this single system. On average, they are monitoring 12.5K checkpoints on a monthly basis across the supplier base. Check out the video for more details on this case. Click here to request a free account. |
