Overview
Oracle Quality is an integrated quality management application designed to support manufacturers in the pursuit of total quality management (TQM), zero defects, continuous process improvement (CPI), and ISO 9000 certification. It is designed to support the diverse data collection needs of discrete, repetitive, assemble-to-order, and batch process manufacturers. Oracle Quality helps you manage and distribute critical quality information throughout your organization.
Oracle Quality can help do all of the following:
- establish quality standards for products and processes throughout the enterprise
- monitor performance relative to established quality standards
- identify and track process factors that are affecting product quality
- collect information about product defects, their causes, and their related dispositions
- ensure that test and inspection instructions are available at the appropriate steps throughout the supply chain for a given product
- ensure that the proper tests are performed at the right time and document all test results
- alert the appropriate personnel when products do not conform to standards
- provide flexible reporting on all aspects of quality management
- maintain a shared enterprise-wide repository of quality results
The following topics introduce Oracle Quality and its design:
