What software can and can't do
Software doesn't make a company certified. A registrar audits your quality system: your policies, your people, and whether you follow your own procedures. CycleWright gives that system its records, the workflows that keep them complete, and a list of what is due. Its clause map lists every ISO 9001 clause, the IATF 16949 additions and the usual retailer audit topics, with where each one's records are kept, live record counts, and what stays your own work.
What CycleWright keeps
| Area | ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 | What CycleWright keeps |
|---|---|---|
| Documents | 7.5; IATF 7.5.3.2 | Draft, review and approval; revisions A, B, C; periodic reviews; customer specifications reviewed within 10 working days; read-and-acknowledged records. Work instructions show at the press, only the revision in effect. |
| Training | 7.2, 7.3; IATF 7.2.1 to 7.2.4 | People, skills and a training matrix with expiries. The operator station warns when someone isn't trained for the job's part or the press. |
| Calibration and MSA | 7.1.5; IATF 7.1.5.1.1, 7.1.5.2.1 | Calibration intervals and history, as found and as left. A failed calibration takes the gauge out of service and opens an NCR. GRR, attribute, bias, linearity and stability studies. |
| Audits | 9.2; IATF 9.2.2.1 to 9.2.2.4 | System, process, product, layered (LPA), supplier and customer audits from checklists. Every NOK finding gets a corrective action. |
| Corrective action | 10.2; IATF 10.2.3 to 10.2.6 | 8D corrective actions that move stage by stage. Customer complaints with containment due the next day and the 8D response in 10 days, or the customer's own dates. |
| PPAP and PFMEA | IATF 8.3.4.4 | PPAPs with the 18 AIAG elements by submission level. PFMEAs with the AIAG-VDA action priority, and RPN for customers who still ask for it. |
| Changes and deviations | 6.3, 8.5.6; IATF 8.5.6.1, 8.7.1.1 | Change requests with a risk analysis, and the customer's approval when it is needed. Deviations can't be approved without the customer's authorization. |
| Risk and contingency | 6.1; IATF 6.1.2, 6.1.2.3 | Risks and opportunities scored and reviewed. Contingency plans with the date they were last tested. |
| Objectives and review | 6.2, 9.3; IATF 9.3 | Measures counted from the records: on-time delivery, customer PPM, scrap, supplier on-time delivery and PPM. Management reviews filled in from the last 12 months. |
| Traceability | 8.5.2; IATF 8.5.2.1 | Trace a container, pallet, SSCC, lot, job or shipment back to the press, mold, operators and material lots, and forward to every customer. Put everything still in stock on hold in one step, and record mock recalls. |
| Suppliers | 8.4 | Approval status (no purchase orders to a disapproved supplier), certificates with expiry dates, on-time delivery and PPM. |
What's due, before the auditor asks
The quality overview lists what is due and overdue: document reviews and approvals, calibrations, missing or expired training, audits coming up and findings without a corrective action, complaint containment and 8D responses, PPAPs and yearly layout inspections, deviations ending, contingency plans not tested in 12 months, expiring certificates, and a year without a management review or a mock recall.
Change history: who changed what, and when
Every change to every ERP record and every plant setting is kept: who made it, when, and the value before and after. The database records it, so changes from imports, EDI, the API and the operator stations are in it too. Earlier versions can be seen, and most can be put back. Approved documents, completed audits and closed corrective actions are kept as they were. Records auditors rely on can't be deleted once they are in use, and any deletion is logged with what the record was.
Honda L-MPR label controls
Honda's Labeling Minimum Process Requirements (L-MPR) ask suppliers for 100% accurate packing, labeling, shipping and traceability, with controls at the line that stop a mistake as it happens. CycleWright's label controls are built for them. Set a customer to Honda L-MPR and:
- Labels print only at the press, from live data, one container at a time and never more than the standard pack. Nothing is printed ahead of time in the office.
- Every label is scanned once it is on the container. A wrong label is refused and logged, and nothing ships until every label on the load is scanned.
- Reprints need a reason and a supervisor's badge. Packing more parts than the machine counted needs a supervisor too.
- When a job starts, the mold's tag is scanned and the press is cleared of the last job.
- IPP tags print with every container after an engineering change.
- The Label controls page shows your evidence against the L-MPR checklist: scans, wrong labels caught, reprints by reason, approvals and exceptions.
Honda's own L-MPR self-assessment package is the list to answer, and Honda approves its suppliers. CycleWright gives you the controls and the evidence; your labeling procedure, training and daily scanner checks stay your work.
Retail and automotive labels
Retail customers and most automotive customers can be set to scan to verify: every carton and pallet label is scanned before the truck leaves, so GS1-128 labels and their SSCCs match the ship notice. The label designer starts from customer formats, including GM, Ford, Stellantis, Honda and Nissan container labels and GS1-128 labels for Walmart, The Home Depot, Costco and Advance Auto Parts, each laid out from the customer's published specification. Customers revise their specs, so send a printed sample for approval before the first shipment.
What stays your work
- The quality policy, scope, process map and procedures. Write them, and keep them in CycleWright as documents.
- Leadership's commitment, management review decisions, internal audits actually carried out, and people actually trained.
- The certification audit itself. Registrars look for records over time: a full cycle of internal audits, a management review and months of measured performance.
- Each customer's specific requirements, social compliance audits for retailers, and supply chain security programs such as C-TPAT.