APIS IQ Benchmarking Functional Safety and Risk Analysis

Since entering the market in 1992, the APIS® IQ-Software has been received as the most innovative Risk Analysis software, enabling many companies to achieve their goals and objectives for assessing and mitigating product and process risk. The APIS® IQ-(Integrated Quality) Software has been revolutionizing how companies leverage FMEAs (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) within their Quality, Safety, and Functional Safety programs by positively affecting their efficacy, efficiency and a value-add to the programs.

Evolution & Formation

FMEA is a structured approach to discovering, analysing, and acting on potential failures that may exist within the product or process design. By minimizing or mitigating these failures, the effects are, impacted and or eliminated. Any failure will cause waste, defects, or, the most crucial reason to not fail, harmful customer outcomes. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is designed to identify, prioritize, and prevent any product or process failures.

As the demand for the IQ-Software has increased throughout North America, the demand to deliver effective training solutions and consultation services increased proportionately, this demand was answered by the formation of the IQ-Software distributor APiS North America team in July 2016. It is noteworthy that since this time, they have managed to increase their IQ-Software license customer base by over 100%. They provide training to global companies to meet the coordinated needs of their quality and safety programs. From the beginning, APiS North America has consistently driven customer needs into the IQ-Software’s capability and functionality.

The Growth Footprint

APiS North America has grown multi-fold, both in terms of licensed customers as well as in the number of industries they support.

In 2016, their customer base was heavily weighted toward automotive manufacturers and suppliers. Since then, they have leveraged their expertise to grow their reach and now serve other industries:

• Alternative Energy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Vehicle Supplier
• Electric Vehicle OEMs
• Medical Device Manufacturers
• Lithium-Ion Battery
• Manufacturers
• Navigation Systems and
• Manufacturing
• Aeronautics
• 3-D Printing

Among their most fantastic customer successes is an OEM that has been using the IQ-Software license for over 2 years. They utilize APiS North America’s team for training, consulting, and support to maintain best practices in their teams’ quality and safety projects. They have extensively leveraged the IQ-Software to meet their design analysis and deliverables for their electric vehicles’ production. Their license user base has grown significantly, and they have added features (the APIS® CARM® Server) to maximize the connectivity of data across their products’ designs and processes.

The Leadership Team

APiS North America’s President, Lynn M. Johnson, Pharm.D., provides the healthcare and business strategy expertise to the team. Before joining APiS North America, her career spanned 22-years in the healthcare industry. She has developed lean processes and strategies with teams providing patient and customer care. Her background in the healthcare industry offers the perfect mix of technology, quality assurance, and business development and proved to be an incredible asset and paramount to APiS North America’s mission.

Vice President of APiS North Amerca, Chad Johnson, is an expert in both the APIS® IQ-Software and FMEA methodology. Chad joined APiS North America after nearly 21 years as a Systems Engineer and certified Master Black Belt – 6Sigma/DFSS. He spent 17 years committing himself to the development of state-of-the-art FMEAs with global teams and implemented the foundational processes required to produce them. Chad has been an invited speaker at the last 8 APIS® Global User Conferences in Germany and was hand-picked by the owner of APIS® Germany to represent the company’s technical capability in North America.

APiS North America provides IQ-Software, training, consulting, and support to its customers, in North and South America. Their team provides multi-lingual training, offered in both English and Spanish, which is invaluable to the teams that span across the territories they serve. The team at APiS North America focuses on ensuring that they deliver the best services to ensure that their clients’ teams perform efficiently. The APIS® IQ-Software drives critical thinking and ensures that each analysis is thorough and operative and maintains industries’ standards and best practices.

A Definitive Mission

APiS North America’s mission: to revolutionize how customers leverage FMEAs within their risk management & functional safety efforts to improve their products and processes through their offering of innovative, high-quality software products, expert training & consulting, and impeccable attention to customer service.

With the technical capabilities it possesses, the APIS® IQ-Software is the most robust FMEA software solution for global quality and safety teams, and it continues to set standards for FMEA, Functional Safety, and Risk Analysis. The APiS North America team possesses the expertise and ability to utilize the robust functionality of the IQ-Software for the best risk analysis available.

The Future Outlook

Considering the world’s most recent events, in 2020, APiS North America pivoted to provide all training, consulting, and support to its customers through the web-based methodology. The IQ-Software Training Team had successfully provided web-based training for close to 2 years. They are now preparing to deliver their 3rd Annual IQ-Software User Conference through web platform. This is an exciting prospect that will provide an opportunity to increase their users’ ability to attend and participate from anywhere in North and South America.

Team & Company Culture

The team at APiS North America can be best described as self-starting, mission-driven individuals with a passion for purposeful innovation. Their focus has always been, and will forever remain, upon their customers’ needs. They have built a very strong internal team and a robust network across many industries.
Their customers are invaluable to the company, and to the APiS North America team. It is for their customers that they maintain such high service standards.
The culture at APiS North America is built on family and safety first. Besides a work-life balance, the team is always provided with the best opportunities for their personal and professional growth. They believe in channelling each team member’s individual strength to achieve the zenith of success. This consistent priority has built a reliable and trusted team internally and has fortified a strong network with their customers.