A software solution designed for quality and compliance management in manufacturing. Formerly CEBOS MQ1.

Product Overview

QAD EQMS, formerly MQ1, is a software solution tailored for quality and compliance management in manufacturing settings. It includes document control, compliance oversight, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and risk assessment. Additionally, the software facilitates regulatory reporting, audit coordination, and supplier evaluations.

It’s widely adopted by manufacturing firms in various sectors, including life sciences and high-tech. QAD EQMS helps enhance product quality while reducing the costs linked to defective products.

Pros

  • Responsive customer service
  • Quick record creation and retrieval through documents module
  • Can be tailored to specific industries

Cons

  • CAPA module could be more configureable
  • Limited global search functions

Target Market

Medium to large organizations that need to manage complex quality and compliance requirements in manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.

QAD EQMS (enterprise quality management system) is an integrated solution designed to manage and improve quality across an entire enterprise. The platform helps streamline manufacturing performance, comply with industry-specific quality standards, and facilitate risk management analysis.

QAD EQMS Key Features

  • Document Control: QAD EQMS assists in tracking document revisions and engineering changes, ensuring teams work with the latest document versions. It manages document distribution, changes, and reviews and lets businesses share them with suppliers.
  • Quality Management: The system covers continuous improvement and quality management in all parts of an enterprise. This includes modules for managing suppliers, audits, employee performance, risk, various programs, products, PPAP (production part approval process), and APQP (advanced product quality planning) Design management.
  • Industry-Specific Tools: QAD EQMS is noted for its high level of integration by offering nearly all quality management options. These encompass defect tracking, risk management, and document coding and control, making it useful in industries like healthcare and biotechnology.
  • Continuous Improvement Module: The system includes tools for continuous improvement, with features for managing suggestions, projects, lessons learned, issue management, and meetings.
  • Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA): EQMS identifies issues, implements corrective actions, and tracks their effectiveness to prevent the recurrence of problems.
  • Supplier Management: The software manages the quality of products and services provided by suppliers, including supplier evaluations, performance monitoring, and communication.

Product Overview

Developer Overview

  • Name QAD
  • Year Founded 1979
  • Headquarters Santa Barbara ,California ,USA
  • Type Private
  • Est. Size 1k-5k employees
  • Est. Revenue $200M-$1B

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User Reviews of QAD EQMS

Joan Curfman
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • 1K-5K employees
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★
Features
★★★★★
★★★★★

I use this software daily, and it's easy to use

March 14th, 2024 • Role: End User

We have an older version of CEBOS. I use it daily and have no issues with the software.

Pros

I use this software daily, and it's easy to use. It's like any other software. You have to use it to know the functionality.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Clunky, Buggy, Not User Friendly

August 15th, 2022 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Clunky, Buggy, Not User Friendly, Worst Search Functions I’ve Ever Seen… I can’t think of anything positive to say about it.

Pros

when I don't have to use it.

Cons

That one time it renamed hundreds of draft documents to the same title.

Anonymous
  • Internet Software & Services
  • 11-50 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QAD EQMS Review

June 6th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Antiquated software but uses nice vintage icons

Pros

Vintage Icons

Cons

Yellow on white color combo

Anonymous
  • Automotive
  • 51-250 employees
  • Annual revenue $10M-$50M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QAD EQMS Review

October 25th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I’ve used the MQ1 solution at my previous job and loved it. I know it has the functionality that I need and know it will work because it’s a great solution

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