CLEVELAND, OH, AND BRECKENRIDGE, CO-IQS Inc., provider of enterprise quality and compliance software, has announced a strategic alliance with PHRED Solutions. IQS will use PHRED’s problem solving software as the foundation for enhancing the corrective action and root cause analysis capabilities within IQS’ enterprise quality and compliance software. PHRED Solutions addresses problem solving, knowledge capture, retention and reapplication across an organization and its supply base.

The new offering, IQS Advanced Problem Solving, Powered by PHRED, is an enterprise problem-solving tool that enables manufacturers to standardize their problem solving processes using questioned-based reasoning software to support 8D, A3/lean problem solving and 5-why root cause analysis methods.

“We’re very pleased to have been selected as IQS’s problem solving partner, extending our reach into broader markets and leverage IQS’ 20 years of market leadership in the enterprise quality and compliance sector,” says Nick Rennie, PHRED Solutions managing director. “IQS is recognized as a leader in quality and compliance software innovation, functionality and customer satisfaction; we look forward to enabling IQS to provide their customers with the most robust problem solving solution on the market today.”

“We selected PHRED Solutions to power IQS Advanced Problem Solving software because of its proven expertise, full functionality and scalability to support our entire suite of quality and compliance solutions,” says Michael Rapaport, president and chief executive officer of IQS. “The addition of PHRED Solutions problem solving software will strengthen our already robust offering, enabling customers to further improve product quality while reducing costs.”

For more information, visit www.iqs.com and www.PHREDsolutions.com.