Plan a part through APQP, prove it with PPAP, control it with FMEA and a control plan, inspect it against spec, and close every non-conformance through 8D/CAPA — on gauges you keep calibrated. One QMS for IATF 16949 and ISO 9001, cloud and on-premise.
If keeping up with quality forms, chasing records before an audit and fixing the same rejections again sounds like your week, this is for you.
Each new part means stacks of documents filled in by hand. It eats days that your team would rather spend on the parts themselves.
When the customer or auditor turns up, you're hunting for records that should have been ready. Every visit feels like a scramble.
Problems get patched on the spot, but the real cause is never written down. So a few months later, the same defect returns.
Fast Quality Software guides your team from planning a new part, through checking and measuring it, to closing out any failures for good. The records your customers and auditors expect are created automatically as normal work happens, so the paperwork keeps itself up to date instead of piling up on someone's desk.
It walks your team through the steps a new part needs, so nothing is missed before production starts.
Inspection results and gauge readings are captured and stored, always ready to show to anyone who asks.
Every rejection or complaint becomes a tracked action that finds the real cause, so it doesn't keep coming back.
Records build themselves as the job gets done, so your team stops drowning in forms.
Every record is in one place and up to date, so a customer or IATF audit stops being stressful.
Because problems get closed at the root, the same defects stop coming back and scrap drops.
Plan, check, calibrate and close all live together, so nothing falls through the gaps between departments.
Fast Quality Software carries a part through one controlled cycle — from feasibility and APQP to a document-backed PPAP, then day-to-day inspection, rejection and 8D/CAPA, with change control feeding it all back.
New parts run as phase-gated APQP stages — feasibility, product design, process design, and product & process validation — each with an owner, target and actual dates, and an explicit gate status. A live program dashboard shows every open part, its current stage, percent complete and overdue gates.
APQP's outputs — DFMEA/PFMEA, process flow, control plan and MSA plan — flow straight into the PPAP submission package: up to 18 elements plus the Part Submission Warrant. Every element is a controlled document that moves through an Accepted / Rejected / Accepted-Under-Deviation lifecycle, so the package is version-controlled and audit-ready, not a loose folder of files.
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DFMEA and PFMEA score every failure mode by severity × occurrence × detection to give an RPN, and flag the special characteristics that matter most to safety, fit and function. Nothing is left to memory: high-RPN modes are the ones you design controls around.
Those special characteristics drive the control plan — built from the specification master with its nominal, USL/LSL and criteria per item and process. For each characteristic the plan states what to measure, with which gauge, at what frequency, by what method, and the reaction on non-conformance. It is a mandatory PPAP element, and a defect detected on the line traces back to the FMEA by its defect code.
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The daily engine. Incoming inspection ties to the GRN; in-process, final and pre-dispatch inspection read the specification master to know what to check, record readings against tolerance, and disposition each lot Accepted, Rejected, or Accepted-Under-Deviation. Cp/Cpk and control charts come off the very same spec limits.
A rejection isn't the end — it's the start of a closed loop. Material rejection (incoming) and line rejection (process) are tagged with defect codes and ranked on a Pareto. A major NCR, or a customer complaint, escalates into a structured 8D (D1–D8); the CAPA is driven through change management, amending the FMEA and control plan and triggering a PPAP re-submission when needed.
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The measurement-system side of the house — what makes every number trustworthy. A gauge master registers each instrument with its type, least count and range, location, last-calibration date and frequency, from which the system derives the next-due date. MSA / Gauge R&R studies (bias, linearity, stability, and repeatability & reproducibility) qualify a gauge before it is used on a control-plan characteristic.
Calibration follow-up lists gauges by due date and drives the cycle — due, sent, calibrated, returned — and the calibration register/MIS is your audit-ready evidence for IATF/ISO clause 7.1.5. A gauge that fails calibration is quarantined, and every measurement taken with it is recalled for review, so a suspect instrument never silently signs off bad parts.
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Fast Quality Software ships with the dashboards and MIS a quality department actually runs on — APQP and PPAP status, the inspector's work list, rejection Pareto, the calibration register and 8D/CAPA tracking — plus Dhruv AI, our own AI layer for the questions a fixed report can't answer.
The new-part cockpit — every open part with its current APQP stage, percent complete, overdue gates and owner, so the NPD engineer sees a slipping program before the customer does.
Each part's PPAP submission status and level, element by element up to the PSW — what's attached, what's approved, and what's still blocking release for mass production.
The inspector's work list — pending inspections, allocated lots and today's dispositions (AC / RJ / AD) — so nothing waits on a lot that never got looked at.
Material and line rejection ranked by defect, process and part, with rejection PPM by supplier and period — the Pareto that tells you which few defects cost the most.
The audit-ready list of every gauge with calibration status, history and overdue count — the clause 7.1.5 evidence a surveillance auditor asks for first.
Open corrective actions by discipline (D1–D8), ageing and owner, with the CAPA that feeds each one back into the FMEA and control plan through change management.
Per-item document status — which controlled documents, drawings, FMEAs and PPAP elements are attached, versioned and approved, and which are still missing.
Special characteristics against their control plan, with Cp/Cpk and control charts off the same specification limits inspection reads — capability where it matters most.
Dhruv AI, our own AI engine, clusters defect and rejection remarks into recurring themes across work centers and parts, and answers plain-English questions with a safe, read-only query and a summary.
Fast Quality Software is one of 12 integrated Fast Technology products built on a single platform. It shares the item, document and specification masters with the rest of the suite — so complaints escalate into 8Ds, inspection binds to the GRN and to work orders, and PPAP packages live in shared document control. One data backbone, zero double entry.
In-process and line inspection attach to its work orders and operations; a control-plan check runs per operation and rework returns corrected stock.
A customer complaint escalates straight into an 8D corrective action; the resulting CAPA amends the FMEA and control plan.
Machine capability and preventive maintenance sit beside process control — a process out of control often traces back to a machine due for service.
Incoming inspection binds to the GRN, so accept and reject quantities move real stock — conforming to store, rejected to a hold location.
The full superset. Quality runs on the same item, party and document masters your ERP transactions already use — one source of truth.
Layered process and system audits alongside the QMS — audit findings feed the same corrective-action and change-management flow.
We map your quality process first — how parts are planned through APQP, how PPAP is submitted, where inspection and calibration are done, how NCRs are closed, gap analysis against IATF/ISO. Then we configure Fast Quality Software to fit your plant. Not the other way around.
Post go-live is not where we disappear. Dedicated support team, multiple channels, monthly review meetings, and patches issued on feedback. We treat support as part of the product.
An IATF automotive supplier, a precision machine shop, a fabrication unit and a foundry each prove quality differently. Fast Quality Software serves each with the APQP depth, control-plan rigour, gauge traceability and closed-loop corrective action they actually need.
APQP timing charts, PPAP submission levels, PSW, FMEA and control plan, 8D on every complaint — the full core-tool set an IATF surveillance audit expects, generated as you work.
Tight dimensional control on CNC and grinding — readings against USL/LSL, Cp/Cpk on special characteristics, Gauge R&R and calibration that keep every micrometer and bore gauge trusted.
Weld, laser and finish inspection on made-to-order assemblies — incoming, in-process and pre-dispatch checks, defect codes, NCR and rework tracked from the first cut to dispatch.
SPC on process parameters, defect Pareto on porosity, short-shot and flash, and deviation control for the concessions high-volume moulding and casting inevitably need.
Customer-specific requirements, documented FMEAs, control plans and MSA studies, and an 8D on every customer complaint — the evidence OEMs and Tier-1s demand from their supply base.
Controlled documents, calibrated-gauge traceability and a closed-loop non-conformance process for ISO 9001 manufacturers who want the core-tool discipline without an IATF mandate.
Because Fast Quality runs on the shared document engine, its integrations are native table-level links, not brittle interfaces. Inspection binds to work orders and the GRN, complaints escalate into 8Ds, PPAP packages live in document control — and gauge/CMM data, alerts and Dhruv AI keep the quality team ahead. One backbone.
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