Testimonial
Quality, Traceability, and Audit Readiness at Anchor Bay Powder Coat
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Video title
Quality, Traceability, and Audit Readiness at Anchor Bay Powder Coat
Date
2025
Speaker
Sam Pugliese, Quality Manager
Company
Anchor Bay Powder Coat
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What this clip covers
Sam Pugliese explains how Steelhead improved quality management, digital traceability, inventory accuracy, certification workflows, and audit readiness at Anchor Bay Powder Coat.
Core insight
Moving from paper-based quality tracking to a digital system gave Anchor Bay more confidence, more granular operational visibility, and dramatically faster audits.
Key themes
• Digital traceability
• Quality management confidence
• Granular job-level visibility
• Inventory planning and powder usage tracking
• Certification efficiency
• Audit readiness and compliance
• Quality management confidence
• Granular job-level visibility
• Inventory planning and powder usage tracking
• Certification efficiency
• Audit readiness and compliance
Full transcript
Speaker
Sam Pugliese
Transcript
Hi, my name is Sam. I am the Quality Manager here at Anchor Bay. So my daily role is to make sure that we are functioning well with our quality management systems, making sure we're meeting assigned 100 standards and also our standards for our customers, for our defense. So in my role in quality, it's really given us the confidence, really getting out of the paper trail of stamps and initials on paper and going into a digital tracking system for traceability.
It has given me confidence to be able to sit at my desk to see what everyone is doing in the shop floor, without seeing it with my own eyes. Yeah, I think it's it's it's changed really the whole way. We kind of think about everything, you know, where we're trying to get away from the hey, we've done this, you know, less granule big picture of, hey, we're doing well as a company now.
We're starting to be able to say, all right, we did well on this job. We did bad on this job. We did great on this job. And then we can kind of take those lessons and really see, hey, we're a lot more granular with this. And there's the the I's like inventory, all that kind of stuff like that really has helped us with the efficiency of it.
Hey, we have this job that we're running for the next six months. Okay. We use for 100 parts. We used 20 pounds of powder. Okay. Next week we did it. We used 22 pounds of powder. Okay. So we can say 21 pounds for 100 parts. And then we go, all right we have 10,000. Now we know how much powder to order. Now we're not going to over order under order or run panic or anything like that.
We kind of have that information there as well. Certification process before steelhead. Um, a lot of, you know, stacks of paper, getting them out, giving it to the auditor. Oh, here's this paper here. Here's that paper there. Where now it's just sit in front of my computer screen. Throw a couple screens at them, they check a couple boxes and they go out in the day.
I've actually reduced my audit times by almost a day. Every audit I've had in the past two years, because I've still had. So our we are new for AS9100. Our auto is actually just a few weeks ago and the new process, you know, was really easy with steelhead. Honestly, just the way we're able to build it out and manipulate it the way that we want to, able to do our contract reviews, able to flow down our deep pass ratings and ITAR rating, all that stuff to our employees, to our vendors and all of that, which is what we need to do for those standards, is to float out that information.
And Steelhead just makes it so easy.
Taxonomy tags
Theme
Quality; Traceability; Audits; Inventory; Compliance
Industry
Powder Coating; Metal Finishing
Content type
Testimonial; Quality Management