MasterControl TotalMFG™ - Software System for Manufacturing Companies

Software System for Automating Business Processes for Manufacturing Companies

MasterControl TotalMFG™ enables regulated manufacturers to get their products to market faster while simultaneously maintaining compliance. MasterControl TotalMFG allows cross-functional teams to efficiently collaborate on critical documents and accelerate the development cycle.

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Who Can Benefit from MasterControl TotalMFG?

• Product Development & Engineering: Can use MasterControl to more easily manage the continual flood of product spec iterations and keep manufacturing, purchasing, document control, and the supply chain up to date. The system allows design engineers to continue to work in the CAD environments where hey are most comfortable. Technical dossiers are effortlessly assembled and maintained for CE marking and ISO certification.

• Manufacturing/Operations: Are connected to the development process earlier and are able to provide input that will reduce manufacturing costs and get the supply chain lined up sooner. MasterControl insures that documentation used in the manufacturing process is always up to date. 

• Quality: Can track and trend quality metrics with MasterControl’s built-in analytics tools and scheduled reports. MasterControl simplifies compliance without sacrificing efficiency by automating quality events such as CAPA, customer complaints, NCMRs, and audits with electronic signatures and workflows. Employee training records can be automatically maintained and controlled with robust links to the MasterControl document management system. MasterControl allows the quality feedback loop to be leveraged in order to improve product design and reduce failures in the field. MasterControl helps quality professionals avoid common QMS pains and provides more control over the development process and resulting documentation. The system also makes it easier to maintain a rapidly evolving AVL and helps insure that it is used properly.

• Purchasing: Can have a single source for product specifications and approved vendor information and allows managers to see changes in processes, thereby enhancing efficiency and preventing scrap and rework. With MasterControl, purchasing decisions are always based on accurate, up-to-date data.

• Regulatory: Can participate in the development cycle and easily repurpose documentation for inclusion in regulatory submissions.

Features and Benefits of MasterControl TotalMFG

Accelerate Time to Market:
Launch products to market faster by enabling the entire development team to execute and communicate their tasks more efficiently using tools with which they are already comfortable and proficient. Some of the benefits that MasterControl TotalMFG offers that can help get your product to market faster include:

• A Web-based platform that eliminates the constraints of geographic dispersion
• Collaboration workspaces that have the capability to involve multiple departments, outside suppliers, consultants, etc.
• Automated approval workflows that eliminate time otherwise wasted waiting for approval signatures
• Project management tools that dramatically reduce administrative overhead by automating task tracking and distribution
• Concurrent engineering involving suppliers and manufacturing

Make Efficiency and Compliance Synonymous:
MasterControl provides your organization with all the necessary tools to make product development and quality more efficient.

• Quality professionals achieve compliance without hindering the development cycle while at the same time increasing overall product quality by incorporating quality feedback into future designs
• Access to all supplier-related quality information is available from a single interface, which allows for rapid assessment and monitoring
• Supplier compliance is insured by MasterControl’s automated status tracking functionality
• Regulatory specialists are able to participate in the development cycle and can easily repurpose documentation for use in regulatory submissions

Integrated Enterprise System:

• MasterControl serves as a single source for product definition, providing a central repository for all drawings, specs, manufacturing procedures, inspection criteria, marketing collaterals, bills of materials, etc.
• The system features tightly integrated applications
• MasterControl seamlessly integrates with the tools you use every day: CAD, Outlook, Word, MS Project, etc.

Advantages of MasterControl TotalMFG

MasterControl’s advanced document control functionality is more conducive to streamlining processes throughout the enterprise. Users from any department can easily collaborate on the same document using the applications with which they are most comfortable. The system streamlines supply chain management to help prevent receiving delays, product rework, and scrapping of product. MasterControl also provides an overview of the development pipeline, ensuring that purchasing decisions are based on accurate data. By reducing bottlenecks and inefficiencies across multiple departments, MasterControl TotalMFG reduces the total amount of time it takes to get your product to market while at the same time increasing product quality and regulatory compliance.

Components of the MasterControl TotalMFG Package

• MasterControl Documents™
• MasterControl Process™
• MasterControl Training™
• MasterControl BOM™
• MasterControl Projects™
• MasterControl Supplier™
• MasterControl PDM Connectors™
• MasterControl Portal™
• MasterControl PDF Publishing™
• MasterControl Business Process Library™

The MasterControl Documents, BOM, Supplier, Projects, and PDM Connector solutions inclusive in the TotalMFG package provide clients with core functionality for product lifecycle management.