Customer Success Story : Anchor Harvey
How a Leading Forging Company Achieved Compliance and Efficiency
Who is Anchor Harvey?
Founded in 1923, Anchor Harvey is a data-driven aluminum forging company based in Freeport, Illinois. The company serves many industries, including electrical vehicles, heavy equipment, aerospace and defense work, and more. Over the years, it has acquired several certifications, such as AS9100, ISO 9001, CQI-9, and ITAR compliance. The shop promises a degree of sophistication you will not find at any other forge shop.
Business Challenge: Documentation Disaster
When Joe Luy, quality manager at Anchor Havery, joined the company only a few years ago, he observed that the company had little control over document management. “There was really no control—no revision control. People were able to access the files and change them if they wanted to. Obviously, a big red flag for me, with ISO and AS,” Joe explains. Being compliant with many different certifications, Joe knew that uncontrolled and unsecured documentation would put the company at risk. Anchor Harvey needed a solution that provided them with strict revision control that could be managed per document.
“We implemented it right before our last surveillance audit, and it actually did help. So instead of showing them a server with all the documents on it, I was able to show him that the documents were in there and ready to be controlled the proper way.”
The Solution: Digital Document Control
Anchor Harvey introduced uniPoint quality control software only about a year ago and already sees the benefits.
Despite reservations among some team members, once uniPoint training began, the employees grew to love the software and could not imagine going back to life before. Joe describes uniPoint as a “simple tool [that] makes you compliant to all the certifications we have.” The company benefits from the many modules accessible in uniPoint and plans to purchase more advanced modules as they work toward IATF certification.
Having task associations within uniPoint has also helped employees on a day-to-day basis understand their workload and next steps. Additionally, customer questions can be answered by pulling procedures and audit schedules, all found within uniPoint.
“As a quality manager of an AS9100 company, I feel much more confident that we're able to control our documents to the industry standard and be able to show customers what we need to show them and share with the auditor everything we need to share with them.”
Anchor Harvey is now over 100 years old, and Joe advises that “you can’t stay in business that long without changing with the world.” Anchor Harvey plans to use uniPoint in its main office and across three newly purchased companies.
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