Integrate your supplier data with your manufacturing and contract manufacturing data using a Hybrid Cloud deployment.
Gain insight and control of your supplier quality.
The BlackBelt Supplier Quality Platform allows real-time data capture of performance data from simple components to complex assemblies. Using Paperless Manufacturing forms, automated adapters or converters to verify supplier performance and ensure that your products maintain the end-to-end quality you need to keep production on track and customer satisfaction high.
Inspection at the source.
Detect and eliminate non-conforming components before they arrive to your production. Give your suppliers the tools, drawings, instructions, real-time SPC and robust reporting to capture any issues on a per-unit or lot basis. Leverage advanced alerting and notifications capabilities to manage by exception, and keep your and your suppliers’ teams up-to-date and collaborating on any yield, performance, or quality issues.
Just-in-time manufacturing.
Validated parts from suppliers can skip the incoming inspection process and delivered to production line fulfillment. Having components fail at incoming inspection will mean significant and costly delays to your manufacturing.
Ease of deployment.
Using our secure Cloud, setup a network of suppliers on one of our sites to monitor quality 24/7. Integrate a secure ‘mothership’ site for your internal quality experts to view and analyze all your supplier quality data in moments. Provide your suppliers with well-documented Microsoft Excel based templates so they can capture your critical performance data quickly. Easily author paperless forms to receive data over the web in real-time!
End-to-end quality.
Integrate your supplier data with your manufacturing and contract manufacturing data using a Hybrid Cloud deployment. Gain traceability, full genealogy and performance hierarchy for your final product, all the way down to individual supplied components. Trend and characterize on your components to learn where performance issues occur, and know how to resolve issues before they become line-stopping problems or customer returns.
Best-in-class features include:
- Real-time data uploads
- Alerts and notifications for non-conformance or control limit violations
- Secure cloud-based deployments to minimize infrastructure costs
- Instructions, ballooning, and drawings to guide operators
- Integration with High Level Assembly and Manufacturing results
- Dashboards and customizable reporting for different stakeholders and teams
- Integration with Failure Analysis to investigate and resolve issues as they occur.
Lack of visibility into failure reasons and yield issues. Lack of tracking process anomalies which impact the overall manufacturing throughput.
Lack of characterization on performance issues.
No way to be proactive on line-stopping issues and problems. Ability to monitor critical KPI’s in real-time with Alerting and enterprise level visibility.
As a high-volume manufacturer with a dedication to higher quality and lower customer returns, Calix needed a way to track and control the RMA process.
RMA data for each customer was tied directly to customer satisfaction and Calix profitability.
Needed to replace two existing, incompletely integrated RMA/FRACAS commercial, off the shelf software system and processes in a very tight (less than one month) timeframe.
