Aerospace & Defense Risk, Compliance and Quality Management Solutions
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Overview
Aerospace and Defense manufacturers are faced with increasing demands due to a growth in competitors and a rise in stringent regulations. Manufacturers must integrate an automated quality management system to facilitate collaboration, increase production rates, provide enterprise-wide visibility, and validate compliance. Pilgrim’s solutions provide manufacturers with the ability to effectively manage and improve:
Productivity Challenges
Aerospace and Defense manufacturers produce complex products with upwards of a million parts and numerous mechatronic systems. Creating and maintaining accurate, up-to-date product specifications can be challenging due to the enormous amount of information generated by a single product. Product development and production times must be reduced in an attempt to remain competitive. Manufacturers must effectively manage product and processes changes across multiple locations. They must also facilitate value chain collaboration and maintain product quality and safety.
Pilgrim’s solution reduces document management time and costs, implements effective change control processes, streamlines product development and introduction, optimizes collaboration, and manages audits to ensure quality and safety. The Pilgrim solution also interfaces with a company’s internal systems including ERP/MRP, MES, HR, PLM and PDM to ensure that compliance and quality are part of the entire product lifecycle management. The result is real-time enterprise-wide visibility.
Data Management and Retention
Manufacturers in the Aerospace and Defense industries must abide by specific regulations regarding product specifications, maintenance records, and other product-related design information and data. In addition to creating and storing these documents, immediate retrieval is required. Companies must sustain searchable, easily accessible document databases to remain compliant.
Pilgrim’s solution provides a cost-effective means of creating, managing, and sharing documents with a single, centralized database. Automated searching enables fast and simple document searching. Real-time access allows for document change and updates and instant retrieval of the latest revisions. The Pilgrim solution enables document management and data retention across the enterprise.
Regulatory Compliance
Strict government and military regulations control Aerospace and Defense industry standards. Production standards, quality management, and security protocol are outlined in these regulations. Regulatory compliance aims to ensure the production of high-quality, safe, secure products and systems. Noncompliance can result in the loss of contracts, large fines, litigation, and poor industry perception.
Pilgrim’s solution helps manufacturers obtain and maintain compliance by providing an automated audit process, identifying and resolving non-conformances, maintaining an up-to-date document database, improving equipment calibration processes, and implementing enterprise-wide corrective and preventive actions when necessary.
Globalization
Global partnerships, virtual design teams, and multiple production site locations are standard within the Aerospace and Defense industry. Communication and collaboration between internal divisions, multiple locations, customers, and suppliers are required for success in today’s market. Highly functional value chains are necessary for knowledge sharing and strategic planning.
Pilgrim’s solution helps manufacturers with enterprise-wide management. Employees are able to access documents and task lists in real-time. E-mail notifications and discussion boards assist in keeping everyone in the value chain informed. The Pilgrim solution is CFR Part 11 compliant, guaranteeing access to sensitive and/or confidential documents only to authorized users. The integrated, end-to-end quality management solution provides value chain members with improved enterprise-wide visibility resulting in more efficient decision making.
Resources
Customer Information
Recorded Webinars
- Concrete Solutions for Managing the Cornerstones of your Contract Manufacturing Webinar
- Market-Driven Compliance – Transforming Manufacturing Compliance into a Competitive Differentiator Webinar
White Papers
- ISO 9000 White Paper
- ISO 9001:2008 White Paper
- ISO 9001:2008 White Paper
- ISO 14001 White Paper
- Quality is Lean: Quality Management is a Fundamental Part of the Lean Enterprise White Paper
- The High Costs of Non-Compliance for Manufacturers White Paper
- Top Ten Reasons to Automate Manufacturing Compliance White paper
The Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management Platform
Pilgrim Software provides a centralized, enterprise–wide, fully web-based solution for managing adverse event reporting, change control management, complaint handling, corrective and preventive actions, document control and content management, engineering drawing control and collaboration, employee certification and training, equipment maintenance/calibration, internal and external audits, nonconformance management, process management, regulatory submissions, risk management, SOP enforcement, and supplier quality management.
This powerful platform enables you to manage product safety while complying with regulatory requirements; reduce manufacturing and operational costs; increase overall productivity; and, improve customer satisfaction by managing the critical processes that govern your organization.