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PPAP4Aero is a simplified, intuitive solution that makes authoring and managing Process Flows, PFMEA, Control Plans and PPAP submissions easier than ever.
It has been designed by PPAP practitioners who need more than spreadsheets but simpler to collaborate with stakeholders.
If your company is having trouble maintaining accurate PPAP data, then it is time to put spreadsheets to rest. Spreadsheets provide limited methods to validate input, and these safeguards can be easily bypassed or ignored. This results in compromised and inaccurate data due to manual errors. Their accuracy completely depends on the users’ skill level and ability to manually identify and correct mistakes. Mistakes usually go unnoticed, and spreadsheets are rarely checked or tested thoroughly before being rolled out.
Most employees who interact with PPAP4Aero only need to know how to fill in a form or click on an icon.
You may have always used a screwdriver as a crowbar or a shim, but it doesn’t make it the best tool for the job. If you’re working on the company financials, use a spreadsheet. If you’re creating a budget, use a spreadsheet. But if you’re maintaining non-numerical data, use a database.
That's how it starts! A year later, they’re still using the same spreadsheet, which has grown to 1,000+ rows and takes ~ 5 minutes to open. When the files get bigger than expected, that's when the process becomes highly inefficient.
How many times has someone opened a spreadsheet in Read Only mode, saved changes to it to their hard drive, and then copied it back over the network copy, eliminating any changes made by another person?
A database stores information more efficiently. Relational databases use tables to segregate data. You’ll have one table for part, customer, suppler information, and another one for the specific forms. Therefore, your database is smaller than your spreadsheet and provides an idea how, over time, your database is more streamlined than your spreadsheet.
Databases with these capabilities are robust are easier to write to and run.
Spreadsheets lack control and security features. Aerospace requires ITAR compliance. Although spreadsheets allow you to protect data with a password and Windows based permissions, it is extremely delicate and requires a deep understanding of spreadsheets. Some of these features won’t work if you have people using different operating systems or if you need relational databases from other computers. Even a password protected spreadsheets file is not secure; there are tools on the Internet that anyone can use to unlock a protected spreadsheets file without knowing the password.
