IEMSuite

Nothing ships until it passes inspection

QC in IEMSuite is not a checklist beside your stock. It is enforced inside allocation: a lot waiting for inspection physically cannot be shipped or consumed. That is the whole point. Holding and releasing stock covers what that block looks like day to day, and what monitoring tools leave out explains why a logged deviation is not the same as contained stock.

Quality Control is included on Growth and Scale plans.

The PENDING_QC gate

When a QC-flagged product is received or produced, its lot starts asPENDING_QCand is excluded from FIFO/FEFO allocation at the database level. No training, no discipline, no "please don't touch the untested pallet" sign required.

Three verdicts, zero ambiguity

An inspection records measurements against your test parameters, then ends in one of three outcomes. Running an inspection shows how those parameters are set.

PASS

The lot becomes AVAILABLE. Orders and production batches can allocate it from this moment on.

FAIL

The lot moves to QUARANTINE. It is physically blocked from every allocation until you re-inspect or open an NCR.

CONDITIONAL

Not a clean pass. The lot also goes to QUARANTINE for a decision - use it with restrictions, rework it, or reject it.

Non-Conformance Reports, start to finish

A failed lot deserves more than a shrug. An NCR records the defect with a severity (MINOR, MAJOR, CRITICAL), the root cause, and the corrective and preventive action taken, then moves through a real lifecycle. VERIFICATION is its own state because corrective action on its own is a plan, and a correction is not a corrective action. Raising an NCR walks through each state, and quality control software for manufacturing places this beside the other categories sold under that name.

OPENINVESTIGATINGCORRECTIVE_ACTIONVERIFICATIONCLOSED

Certificates of Analysis

Generate a CoA PDF from a completed inspection when a customer or auditor asks for one - the measurements are already on record. Keeping those records retrievable is its own requirement: what the rules ask of your records covers how long they have to survive.

A report moves OPEN, then INVESTIGATING, then CORRECTIVE_ACTION, then VERIFICATION, then CLOSED. VOID sits outside the sequence for reports raised in error. Verification is its own state because corrective action on its own is a plan rather than a result.

  1. OPEN

    Triage: severity, category, affected lots.

    once that is done
  2. INVESTIGATING

    Establish the root cause.

    once that is done
  3. CORRECTIVE_ACTION

    Do the thing that stops it recurring.

    once that is done
  4. VERIFICATION

    Confirm the fix actually worked.

    once that is done
  5. CLOSED

    Nothing outstanding.

VOID sits outside the sequence, for a report raised in error. It is not a way out of verification.

A non-conformance report moves through five states, not three

Common questions

Which plan includes Quality Control?+

QC and NCR are included on Growth and Scale plans. See the pricing page for the current plan lineup.

Can a quarantined lot be recovered?+

Yes. From quarantine you can re-inspect the lot (for example after rework). A passing re-inspection releases it back to AVAILABLE.

What gets measured in an inspection?+

You define test parameters per product (values, ranges, pass criteria). Inspections record actual measurements against them, so the verdict has data behind it.

Does QC apply to production output too?+

Yes. Finished goods from a production batch can enter as PENDING_QC just like received materials, so nothing you made ships untested either.

Make quality a gate, not a suggestion

Inspections, quarantine, and NCRs enforced inside allocation itself.

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