Mobile Data Collection - Manufacturing

Error Proofing Smart System

EPSS is used to ensure your company's shipping quality is Six Sigma compliant. It can be used to eliminate product, process and label errors. EPSS utilizes the best practices in the industry for line/cell error proofing, including automated move order capability, printing part labels on demand, parking ticket capability, second party verification, and part traceability. Millions of parts have been processed, packaged and shipped with "ZERO" Label Errors utilizing ADR's EPSS and QCS error proofing systems. This has resulted in tremendous savings by preventing extensive costs related to a manufacturing assembly plant having to either recall parts or travel on site to the customers assembly plant to 100% inspect and sort defective parts. Then there are also the internal cost impacts from being in containment until proving to your customer it won't happen again! Reference ADR's Corporate Profile for a more detailed description. Read More...

Quality Check System

QCS is a mobile data collection and verification system that utilizes a portable, handheld, programmable, bar-code scanning device with a user defined cross-referenced database and a portable printer, with linerless labels, that attaches to your belt. The primary purpose of the system is to ensure that the correct manufactured products are shipped to the desired destination. A major automotive company recognized the value of this system and purchased a Corporate Worldwide license, implementing QCS throughout their organization. Reference ADR's Corporate Profile for a more detailed description. Read more...

AMOS Sequence Pack

Developed for an automotive supplier, this system initially accepts a manifest describing how each bin of parts is to be packed and displays where the component needs to be placed in the bin. After all parts have been placed in the bin, the user verifies the correct location with a hand scanner. This system allows major automotive manufacturers to dictate to their Tier 1 suppliers how they want the parts to be sequenced in their packaging. This allows for smooth and efficient removal of parts from the packaging since they are packaged in the same order as the vehicles are traveling down the assembly line, resulting in time and cost savings.

Vehicle Quality Auditing

This extensive custom software package simulates the J.D. Powers Survey and has over 15,000 attributes that are inspected as part of the final assembly quality auditing process. This has accomplished its goal of taking this major automotive supplier to the #1 ranking of the Big 3 in the J.D. Powers Survey for quality. A sample of each vehicle platform is inspected utilizing this VQA software on a mobile data collection computer. It is then imported into a desktop via its own PC Manager where the data is compiled and analyzed and reports generated. The pass/fail parameters for each criteria are also part of the software and are used to determine which reports are required to print in order to direct the assembly plant supervisors in correcting the quality issues. Utilizing this VQA system on a regular basis not only helped achieve the #1 J.D. Powers rating, which helps marketing and sales, but it also inherently improved the overall Quality of the vehicles, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and reduced warranty costs!

Budds Universal Defect Detection System

This custom software package was developed for plastics manufacturing assembly plants looking to improve their manufacturing processes so they were Six Sigma compliant. Multiple plants utilized this same BUDDS software package. A mobile data collection or acquisition computer was used throughout the assembly plant, providing the capability to travel from operation to operation of the manufacturing process, from raw material to finished product. Manufacturing engineers are able to monitor the quality of each part after each process. This enabled them to detect defects at the point of origin, at that point in time, utilizing the QC auditing tool and this BUDDS system. Since defects were detected and addressed immediately, parts with defects were unable to continue thru the process. You can imagine the cost savings associated with implementing a Six Sigma quality auditing system, preventing hundreds or thousands of parts from being manufactured with defects, that sometimes are not found until the finished product is quality audited.