Shop Floor Software: Deltek TIPSFE
Achieve enterprise-wide visibility into the paperless shop floor operations integrated with QMS to build high quality products by improving costs and productivity.
Shop Floor Software Overview
TIPSFE empowers manufacturers to transition to a paperless shop floor, helping them overcome operational challenges such as complex workflow instructions, revision control, document retention & retrieval, lost/incomplete records and significant costs associated with paper-based operations. Eliminating these challenges enables businesses to focus on improving efficiencies, integrating quality and manufacturing data to be compliant and providing visibility across departments to identify, track and resolve production-related issues. And Deltek TIPQA provides visibility into quality metrics, product lifecycle management and supplier performance for manufacturers.
Shop Floor Execution Benefits
Smarter Production Floor
Eliminate labor intensive paperwork, data silos, complex work instructions and physical record retention by going paperless.
Enhanced Productivity
Manage manufacturing orders (work orders) digitally and integrate them with the quality management system.
Lower Production Costs
Automate processes to ensure higher quality products and reduce scrap, rework and cycle time in the manufacturing process.
Shop Floor Software Features
Paperless Shop Floor Transition
- Paperless traveler mechanism with detailed routings, work instructions and inspection requirements
- Shop floor operations conducted from a single point of access
- Electronic manufacturing plan with inspection and detailed instructions, custom data segments and workflow management
Electronic Work Instructions
- Shop floor personnel can use status work orders from a single query and process both batch and discrete operations
- Ability to redline work instructions, edit the routing to add/delete/update steps, in real-time with audit
- Work authorizations and approvals capability via mobile devices
Integrating Manufacturing with Quality
- Enhance collaboration between quality and manufacturing departments to deliver a higher quality product
- Complete visibility into the inspection process to have greater control over manufacturing to avoid costly errors
- Electronically track the manufacturing lifecycle and quality aspects from raw material to finished product
Parts Genealogy
- A comprehensive data capture capability of the full genealogy of a part; from inspections to traveler completions
- Integration with quality management includes quality data to complete the genealogy of the as-built configurations
- Inventory Issues/Returns can be tied to the product genealogy and traceable configuration record
Audits Made Simpler
- Single repository of data which makes data mining for audits simpler, especially for complex shop floor operations
- Revision control, workflow changes, updates and changes can be tracked and maintained electronically
- Audit readiness achieved within a significantly shorter amount of time compared to preparedness using paper-based systems
Process Optimization
- Inspections are tied to nonconformance which triggers a review of the NC history for work orders making the shop floor agile
- Custom data segments provide the ability for user defined fields to be added to records to capture data specific to business needs
- Electronic verification of shop floor operator qualifications and prevent sign-off by unqualified personnel
INTEGRATIONS FOR MANUFACTURERS AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS
Manufacturing Customer Success Spotlight
“I'm highly confident that as our needs continue to evolve, Deltek is going to be ready in partnership with us to give us the very best solutions for our future needs as we grow and expand our business.”
— Pete Wick, Qarbon Aerospace CEO