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Quality Control and Assurance with Alteryx One

Improve defect detection and reduce variability with automated quality workflows. Alteryx unifies MES, ERP, and quality data to standardize metrics, surface trends, and accelerate root cause analysis for consistent, trusted improvement.

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Unlock Better Outcomes in Manufacturing

By 2027, 70% of G2000 manufacturers are expected to use generative AI to automate product quality management (IDC, 2024). However, quality teams often depend on spreadsheets and disconnected systems that delay reporting and limit consistency. Combining quality data, MES metrics, and ERP inputs is often slow and unreliable. Manual reporting, limited insights, and unclear root causes slow responsiveness, increase rework, and raise compliance risk. Without structured access to trusted QA data, manufacturers face reactive investigations, increased variability, limited ability to scale improvements, and a blocker to AI success.

Siloed quality data

QA data spread across MES, ERP, and systems delays reporting and hinders consistency.

Manual, error-prone tasks

Spreadsheets slow QA, introduce errors, and block timely defect detection and corrective action.

Inconsistent compliance

Disconnected workflows limit traceability, making audit and compliance reporting unreliable.

Lacks AI ready data

Unstructured, lineage-poor data prevents AI from finding patterns and supporting quality insights.

How Alteryx One Powers This Use Case

Alteryx One helps manufacturers automate quality workflows by connecting and standardizing data from MES, ERP, and quality systems. Teams can cleanse, blend, and analyze data using governed logic within repeatable, no-code workflows. This enables faster issue detection, clearer defect trends, and audit-ready reports. QA leaders gain consistent visibility across sites and can move from manual tasks to analytics-driven decision-making.

 

From Data to Business Value: How It Works

Your data inputs
  • MES production logs and batch records
  • ERP quality and master data
  • QMS/LIMS test results, QA metrics, process limits
  • Compliance policies, defect thresholds, audit docs
  • Legacy QA spreadsheets or CSVs for traceability
What Alteryx does
  • Connects MES, ERP, and QA data in one platform
  • No-code canvas to build Sigma-level monitoring
  • Workflow governance for audit, traceability, compliance
  • AI-ready datasets for root cause and predictive insights
  • Repeatable reporting built once, scaled across sites
How it works for you
  • AI-ready QA datasets with thresholds and lineage
  • Standardized defect metrics for Sigma-level reporting
  • Audit-ready dashboards that scale across sites
  • Consistent root cause insights for continuous improvement
 

Business value & ROI

Faster issue detection and clearer defect trends

Reduced rework and manual reporting effort

Stronger compliance through governed traceability

Scalable quality processes aligned across plants

 
 

Your Gains in Time, Accuracy, and ROI

100 hours to 3 minutes

Manual exporting of 3,000 Excel databases reduced to 3 minutes

20 industrial sites

Assessing the Sigma Level with 1 replicated workflow

250 production processes

Emitting between 500-3,000 records every 30 seconds

 

The team needed approximately one working week of data consolidation to assess the Sigma Level of each of our 20 plants. With Alteryx, we can replicate this task so it takes less than three minutes for all plants.

Pierre Louis Bescond, Head of Data Science

Roquette

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What are the Quality Control and Assurance Capabilities Unlocked with Alteryx One

 
Automates QA reporting

Replace spreadsheets and manual formatting with governed processes that unify MES, ERP, and QA data. Standardized reports cut rework, improve consistency, and let analysts focus on problem-solving.

 
Unifies quality data

Blend MES, ERP, and QA inputs for full visibility into performance. Teams compare defects, track deviations, and align on a single version of the truth across plants with less IT reliance.

 
Sigma-Level analytics

Embed standards and metrics into no-code workflows that scale across sites. Analysts track trends, surface anomalies, and monitor KPIs with clean, auditable data to sustain quality improvements.

 
AI-ready monitoring

Prepare AI-ready datasets with thresholds, metadata, and lineage built in. Governed workflows reduce risk, boost explainability, and support predictive quality without sacrificing compliance.

 
Faster root cause analysis

Blend batch records, equipment logs, and QA data into dashboards. Analysts isolate patterns quickly, speeding investigations and driving continuous improvement without IT delays.