Quality Assurance Management
The increased focus on quality has the Quality Assurance
and Quality Control departments buried in mountains of paperwork. These departments, in order to fulfill legal
and internal monitoring requirements, spend too much time retrieving, transcribing, calculating, reviewing, and
analyzing this paperwork. It is no longer feasible or profitable for an operation to continue using a paper-based
Quality assurance system.
Reports and Certificate of Analysis
INQAS includes a flexible report writer ideally suited for printing user-defined and multilanguage certificates
of analysis in addition to a wide range of standard reports. lt generates the certificates of analysis using either
the manufacturing or the customer's specifications and may be displayed using a standard word processing software.
The standards reports available in INQAS include the sampling worksheet, the sample status, batch/lot detail information,
in-process exceptions, and others.
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Document Control
INQAS assures that the last official specification and test
method master documents are used in the analysis and evaluation stages. It keeps a full history and provides auditability
of the official documents used.
Sampling Plan
INQAS provides cyclic sampling plans based on skip
lots and/or elapsed time between lots tested. lt also provides user defined formulas and tables to calculate the
sample size based on the number of containers or the batch/lot quantity. Sampling instructions are available to
the sampler through on-line inquiries and sampling reports. INQAS offers the capability of customizing the printing
of bar code labels.
Test Results
Entry and Validation Quantitative, qualitative, and table-driven
results are validated and verified against an acceptable range or code defined in the specification master document.
The automatic validation process eliminates the possibility of human error in the comparison process. INQAS provides
security options to prevent unauthorized personnel from entering results and to assure audit trails are maintained.
Quality Assurance Certification
INQAS verifies that all required samples have been taken, that all required tests have been entered and verified,
and that all results meet the requirements of the official specification master document before allowing an audited
approved disposition. lt certifies each batch/lot before releasing it to fulfill production orders or customer
shipments reducing expansive material rejections and product recalls.
Batch/Lot Management
INQAS provides a series of tools to assist Quality Assurance in the management of batch/ lot information. INQAS
displays test results trending and provides management summary overviews. It lists all ingredients used in the
manufacturing of a batch/lot. lt compares and selects all certified batch/lots in inventory that match specific
customer property requirements. INQAS calculates and charges to specific accounts the actual costs incurred in
the certification of each batch/lot.
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