Anna Alfeld, Stacie Anderson, Michelle Bright, Luke Huff

Our Client

• Quality Automotive Control, or QUAC

• Contracted to run quality control inspections in General Motors’ [GM] Ft. Wayne plant

• Family owned and operated business

Our Client’s Role

• 3rd party quality control ensures a superior product

• Bids for contracts with the components manufacturers that supply General Motors

• Provide the production plant with routine check-ups on production quality on individual components

• Manually sort quality parts from inferior parts when an issue arises

Database Goals

• Streamline workflow to increase efficiency and accountability

• Decrease errors due to lost or damaged data

• Improve public relations to maintain current clients and to attract new ones

• Manage billing and accounts receivable

• Keep track of employee information

• Monitor individual vendor’s performance

Current Database

[Here I'm going to put either the picture that Luke gets of a page from the current notebook or one that I put together.- Stacie]

Current Workflow

Proposed Database

[Should I put up a screenshot of the results from a query to collect invoice information?- Stacie]

Proposed Workflow

ER-Diagram

Queries

• What is the discard rate per vendor?

• How many hours did our employees work in October 2012?

• Which parts had a lot with a higher than average number of discards?

• What information is going into Invoice #3024?o AKA “The Mother of All Joins”

Design Issues

• Lacks a user interface due to the use of PostgreSQL rather than Access

• Does not print reports in the way that Access does

• Lacks security features

• No marketability

• Not designed for international business use

Proposed Upgrades

• Feature to generate weekly reports for ease of use during vendor meetings

• Feature to print invoices

• Mobile apps for on the job ease of use

• Additional levels of detail for part flaws (for discussion in vendor meetings) and information about changing GM flaw specs

• Install payroll to increase ease of use when paying employees/recording tax info and expenses