Safety First: A Simpler Way to Follow Ever-changing Industry Guidelines
- Mary Braunwarth
- May 22, 2014
- 2 min read
Government legislation, safety rules and standards can help protect the health and safety of consumers. Yet, all too often, dehumidifiers, toys, kitchen gadgets and countless other products people buy are found to be unsafe.
The Challenge: Consumer Product Safety Guideline Compliance
Governments and manufacturers strive to prevent the manufacture of unsafe consumer products. In the event these products reach the marketplace, they’re also challenged to quickly and effectively recall products with potential to cause harm.
To address quality-production and recall challenges, the European Parliament approved the new Consumer Product Safety Regulation (CPSR) and Market Surveillance Regulation (MSR) during a vote on April 15, 2014.
Consumer Product Safety Regulation (CPSR): A few of the many CPSR initiatives are to ensure consumer product safety, identification and traceability, including batch and lot numbers, along with manufacturer, importer and the product’s place of origin. Manufacturers must also keep technical documentation of products, along with detailed risk and testing analyses and non-conformance records.
Market Surveillance Regulation (MSR): The MSR initiative is designed to oversee manufacturers and ensure they comply with CPSR initiatives.
The Solution: Quality Data Assurance (QDA)
If you’re challenged to adhere to increasingly strict guidelines such as CPSR and MSR, consider implementing quality data management software. Quality Data Assurance (QDA) from ASI DATAMYTE, for example, can help you monitor suppliers, understand your company’s quality performance, manage to industry compliance and achieve full product traceability among many other business-critical functions.
QDA includes a wide range of modules. Each operates in a stand-alone or integrated manner to accommodate your quality data management needs as your business grows and evolves.
If you need to collect and analyze inspection data and document usage decisions for tested parts, deploy the QDA Incoming / Outgoing Inspection module. With the system in place, you’re better able to identify defects as they arise so you may more quickly execute process improvements.
The Incoming / Outgoing Inspection module also complies with the most current quality management standards, helping you to increase uptime while reducing cost and waste. You may use the module to communicate quality specifications to suppliers electronically, helping you to eliminate transaction errors, misinterpretation issues and attempts to substitute unacceptably lower quality material inputs. At the same time, you achieve more accurate data, more efficient corrective actions and greater success in reaching your continuous-improvement goals with the Incoming / Outgoing Inspection module in place.
To handle consumer, supplier and internal-employee complaints, deploy the QDA Non-conformance Management module. It features the integration required to manage and route complaints for investigation, analysis, response and reporting. You may also tag a specific complaint to the product in question and pull in all the quality data and history associated with it. This enables powerful analysis and traceability from the essence of the complaint to logical sources.
With Incoming / Outgoing Inspection, Non-conformance Management and other QDA modules in place, you benefit from complete visibility into quality management data. This awareness makes it possible for you to promptly and thoroughly address issues on a global scale. As a result, you ensure you’re complying with all quality standards required to keep consumers worldwide safe.
For more information about quality data management solutions from ASI DATAMYTE, visit our product page or contact us today.
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