1factory vs OnPolicy

1factory is a platform for manufacturing, supply-chain, and quality operations, covering product quality, supplier quality, and compliance. Quality Control includes PDF auto-ballooning, inspection plans, first article inspections, PPAP, in-process inspections, SPC, and gage calibration. Incoming inspection supports AQL sampling, lot acceptance or rejection, lot switching, and certificates of conformance. Supplier tools provide approved-vendor lists, qualification and certification, dashboards, scorecards, supplier FAI and PPAP, and corrective actions. The QMS includes document control, approval and access workflows, training, records management, and audit-readiness tools. APIs exchange part-master and order data with ERP or PLM systems and retrieve inspection results and measurements; requests and responses use UTF-8 JSON and an organization API key. Access is available through web, API, and self-hosted deployment. Standard plans require a one-year minimum and annual billing. Supplier Collaboration and QMS Standard cost $20 a month; Quality Control Standard costs $75 a month.

OnPolicy is web-based document-control software for small-to-medium businesses. It moves documents through draft, review, approval, and release stages while preserving revision history and an audit trail of who revises, approves, and releases them. Administrators can require users to read documents or updates, restrict access to all documents or selected departments, and print reports on required reading, document use, and stalled workflows. Text search and dynamic links to related documents help users locate material. OnPolicy says documents can be controlled to conform to standards including ISO, SOX, HIPAA, JCAHO, IATF, AS, FDA, or GMP. Released documents can be pushed to SharePoint, an intranet, or another local server. The online service requires no installation or management and is accessible wherever there is an internet connection. Its product page describes audit trails on a secure, backed-up SSAE 16 server. OnPolicy recommends its Windows client because some third-party browsers are dropping Java support. The annual plan costs $990 a year, and a 30-day trial is available.