# Power IMS – Modular Integrated Management System (Detailed Reference)

> Power IMS by Power Manufaktur GmbH is a modular integrated management system (IMS) built on Microsoft Cloud technologies. It helps manufacturing and regulated companies digitize quality, safety, maintenance, audit, risk, and compliance processes.

## Company Information

- **Name:** Power Manufaktur GmbH
- **Legal Form:** Swiss GmbH (LLC)
- **Managing Director:** Heinz Süess
- **Location:** Mettenwilstrasse 1, 6203 Sempach Station, Switzerland
- **Website:** https://power-ims.com
- **Contact:** info@powermanufaktur.com | +41 41 244 98 98
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/power-manufaktur
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/@PowerManufaktur
- **Industry:** Enterprise Software, Management Systems, Quality Management
- **Founded:** 2024, Switzerland
- **Data Hosting:** Microsoft Azure, EU data centers
- **Compliance:** GDPR, Swiss DSG
- **UID:** CHE-153.237.765
- **CH-ID:** CH-100-4819626-7

## Platform Architecture

Power IMS is built natively on the Microsoft Cloud stack:
- **Foundation:** Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, OneDrive)
- **Backend:** Azure, Power Platform
- **AI Features:** Automated document translation, intelligent suggestions, AI-powered compliance checks
- **Languages:** German, English (UI and content)
- **Deployment:** Cloud-based SaaS, no on-premise installation required
- **Authentication:** Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), SSO/SAML support
- **Multi-tenancy:** Full multi-site and multi-company support

## Modules (Detailed)

### Power QMS – Quality Management System
- **Status:** Generally Available
- **Standards:** ISO 9001, IATF 16949
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/qms
- **Description:** Complete digital quality management. Centrally manage documents, processes, SOPs, and work instructions with version control, approval workflows, and read confirmations.
- **Key Features:**
  - Document control with versioning and approval workflows
  - Process map with interactive tree navigation
  - KPI dashboard with real-time metrics
  - Multi-language document support
  - Read confirmations and acknowledgments
  - Flexible multi-step approval workflows
  - Automated document translation (AI-powered)
  - Distribution groups for targeted document sharing
  - Configurable metadata and custom fields
  - Full-text search across all documents
  - Change request management
  - Link control between related documents
- **Ideal for:** Manufacturing companies seeking ISO 9001 certification, quality managers, compliance teams

### Power Audit – Audit Management
- **Status:** Generally Available
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/audit
- **Description:** Plan, execute, and report internal audits, supplier audits, and certification audits. Complete audit lifecycle management.
- **Key Features:**
  - Audit planning and scheduling
  - Customizable audit checklists
  - Finding and non-conformity management
  - Photo documentation and evidence capture
  - Automated audit reports (PDF/Word)
  - Auditor qualification management
  - Corrective action tracking (CAPA)
  - Audit program management
  - Risk-based audit scheduling
- **Ideal for:** Internal auditors, quality managers, compliance officers, ISO certification audits

### Power Maintenance – Maintenance Management (CMMS)
- **Status:** Coming Soon
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/maintenance
- **Description:** Digitize maintenance operations with preventive and corrective maintenance planning, fault reporting, and complete machine history.
- **Key Features:**
  - Preventive maintenance planning and scheduling
  - Fault and incident reporting
  - Asset and machine management
  - Spare parts inventory tracking
  - Mobile maintenance app
  - MTTR/MTBF/OEE metrics and analytics
  - Work order management
  - Maintenance cost tracking
  - QR code asset identification
- **Ideal for:** Maintenance managers, plant managers, production facilities

### Power Safety – Occupational Safety & Health (EHS)
- **Status:** Coming Soon
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/safety
- **Description:** Comprehensive occupational safety management. Manage safety instructions, incidents, hazard assessments, and PPE digitally.
- **Key Features:**
  - Safety instruction management with acknowledgments
  - Incident and near-miss reporting
  - Hazard assessments (risk assessment)
  - PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) management
  - Safety walks and inspections
  - Safety KPI dashboard
  - Regulatory compliance tracking
  - Emergency response planning
- **Ideal for:** Safety officers, EHS managers, plant safety teams

### Power Risk – Risk Management
- **Status:** Coming Soon
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/risk
- **Description:** Enterprise risk management. Identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risks across the organization with visual risk matrices.
- **Key Features:**
  - Risk register with categorization
  - Visual risk matrix (heat map)
  - Risk assessments with scoring
  - Mitigation action tracking
  - Risk monitoring and alerts
  - Risk reporting and dashboards
  - Risk owner assignment
  - Integration with audit findings
- **Ideal for:** Risk managers, compliance teams, executive management

### Power Knowledge – Knowledge Management
- **Status:** Coming Soon
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/knowledge
- **Description:** Capture, organize, and share organizational knowledge. Build a searchable knowledge base for best practices, lessons learned, and standards.
- **Key Features:**
  - Wiki-style knowledge base
  - Best practices library
  - Standards and regulations reference
  - Full-text search with categorization
  - Version history
  - Collaborative editing
  - Knowledge templates
- **Ideal for:** Knowledge managers, training departments, engineering teams

### Power CI – Continuous Improvement (KVP/Kaizen)
- **Status:** Coming Soon
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/ci
- **Description:** Foster a culture of continuous improvement. Manage improvement ideas, projects, and Kaizen initiatives.
- **Key Features:**
  - Idea management and submission
  - Improvement project tracking
  - A3 problem-solving reports
  - Kaizen event management
  - ROI tracking for improvements
  - Employee participation metrics
  - PDCA cycle support
- **Ideal for:** Continuous improvement managers, Lean/Six Sigma teams, operations

### Power Contract – Contract Management
- **Status:** Coming Soon
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/contract
- **Description:** Centralized contract management with deadline tracking, renewal reminders, and obligation management.
- **Key Features:**
  - Contract repository with search
  - Deadline and milestone tracking
  - Automatic renewal reminders
  - Obligation and compliance tracking
  - Contract templates
  - Approval workflows
  - Vendor and supplier contracts
- **Ideal for:** Legal departments, procurement, contract managers

### Power Invoice – Digital Invoice Processing
- **Status:** Coming Soon
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/products/invoice
- **Description:** Capture, verify, approve, and archive incoming invoices digitally – GoBD-compliant and audit-proof.
- **Key Features:**
  - Email-inbox capture and OCR document recognition
  - Configurable verification and approval workflow (four-eyes principle)
  - Coding suggestions and ERP export (DATEV/SAP)
  - Contract and purchase-order matching
  - Early-payment discount monitoring
  - GoBD-compliant, audit-proof archiving
- **Ideal for:** Accounts payable, finance teams, controllers, auditors
- **Ideal for:** HR departments, team leads, talent management

## Use Cases

### ISO 9001 Certification
- **Challenge:** Complex documentation requirements, manual processes, audit preparation
- **Solution:** Power QMS + Power Audit for complete ISO 9001 compliance
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/iso-certification

### Complaint Management
- **Challenge:** Lost complaints, no systematic root cause analysis, slow resolution
- **Solution:** Power QMS with integrated complaint workflows and CAPA
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/complaint-management

### Preventive Maintenance
- **Challenge:** Reactive maintenance, no visibility into asset health, paper-based processes
- **Solution:** Power Maintenance for preventive maintenance and asset tracking
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/preventive-maintenance

### Occupational Safety
- **Challenge:** Paper-based safety instructions, unreported incidents, compliance gaps
- **Solution:** Power Safety for digital safety management
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/workplace-safety

### Risk Management
- **Challenge:** Unstructured risk tracking, no visibility across departments
- **Solution:** Power Risk for enterprise-wide risk management
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/enterprise-risk-management

### Continuous Improvement (KVP)
- **Challenge:** Ideas lost in email, no structured improvement process
- **Solution:** Power CI for systematic continuous improvement
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/continuous-improvement

### Contract Lifecycle Management
- **Challenge:** Missed deadlines, scattered contract documents, no oversight
- **Solution:** Power Contract for centralized contract management
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/contract-lifecycle

### Operational Excellence
- **Challenge:** Siloed processes, no cross-functional visibility
- **Solution:** Multiple Power IMS modules for integrated management
- **URL:** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/use-cases/operational-excellence

## Pricing

One-time license fee model in CHF, EUR and USD (fixed exchange rates). **Power QMS** offers 3 editions (Light, Standard, Premium) with fixed prices across 5 user tiers up to 5,000 users (from CHF 9,900 to CHF 39,900); from 5,001 users onwards a per-user price applies (CHF 6 / 7 / 8 per user). **Power Audit** is a single edition with 5 tiered prices: CHF 9,999 (1–100 users), CHF 12,999 (101–500), CHF 16,999 (501–1,000), CHF 19,999 (1,001–2,500), CHF 24,900 (2,501–5,000); above 5,000 users on request. Installation & setup are always included. Optional maintenance & support: 15% of license fee per year. Additional training: CHF 1,500 per day. All prices exclude VAT. Pricing is transparent and predictable – no monthly invoicing, no per-seat surprises in the SMB segment.

- **Pricing page & quote generator (PDF export):** https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/pricing
- **Free demo available:** Book at https://bookings.cloud.microsoft/book/PowerManufakturGmbH1@powermanufaktur.com/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true
- All plans include: Microsoft 365 integration, regular updates, Swiss/EU data hosting

## Knowledge Hub – Long-Form Articles

In-depth guides published on https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/resources/knowledge-hub (also available under /en/):
- **ISO 9001 mit Microsoft 365 umsetzen** – /knowledge-hub/iso-9001-mit-microsoft-365-umsetzen
- **QMS in SharePoint – Best Practices & Stolperfallen** – /knowledge-hub/qms-in-sharepoint-best-practices
- **Auditprozesse digitalisieren** – /knowledge-hub/auditprozesse-digitalisieren
- **Dokumentenlenkung nach ISO 9001** – /knowledge-hub/dokumentenlenkung-iso-9001
- **ISO 27001 in Microsoft 365 (Lizenzierung & Controls)** – /knowledge-hub/iso-27001-in-m365
- **KMU-QMS: Warum Standalone-Lösungen scheitern** – /knowledge-hub/kmu-qms-warum-standalone-loesungen-scheitern
- **Power QMS mit Copilot Studio Agents & KI** – /knowledge-hub/power-qms-copilot-studio-agents-ki
- **Power QMS & Encodian Flowr – Dokumenten-Anreicherung** (Versionsstempel, Wasserzeichen für inaktive Dokumente, zentrales Logo in Header/Footer, einheitlicher und mehrsprachiger Footer, universelle PDF-Konvertierung von 70+ Formaten inkl. Visio, E-Mails, CAD) – /knowledge-hub/power-qms-encodian-flowr-dokumenten-anreicherung
- **QMS in Microsoft 365: Vor- und Nachteile gegenüber Standalone-Tools** (ehrlicher Vergleich: Kosten, Funktionsumfang, Integration, Risiken für KMU) – /knowledge-hub/qms-microsoft-365-vor-und-nachteile

## Rollout & Roadmap

Page: https://power-ims.com/de/pm-ims/resources/einfuehrung (also /en/)
Standard rollout in maximum 3–4 months across 6 stages:
1. **Analyse & Konzeption** (1–2 Wochen) – Kick-off, handover and completion of module checklists as basis for planning
2. **Planung** (~1 Woche) – Project plan, RACI, migration & training strategy
3. **Bereitstellung Module** (2–3 Wochen) – Provisioning in your M365 tenant, permissions, metadata model, branding, sandbox acceptance
4. **Anpassung** (3–6 Wochen) – Customizing per checklist, templates, workflows, optional integrations, deployment to production
5. **Launch** (1–2 Wochen) – Optional data migration, training, supported go-live, optional hypercare & adoption
6. **Support** (laufend) – Optional maintenance contract (15% of license fee p.a.) for updates, support, continuous improvement

Prerequisites: existing Microsoft 365 tenant (Business Standard, Business Premium or Enterprise E1/E3/E5) plus two central premium licenses (Power Apps Premium, Power Automate Premium). Effort for the customer team is highest during data migration depending on data cleansing scope.

## Key Differentiators

1. **Native Microsoft Cloud Integration** – Works seamlessly within Teams, SharePoint, Outlook
2. **Modular Architecture** – Start with one module, add more as needed
3. **AI-Powered Features** – Automated translations, intelligent suggestions, Copilot Studio agents
4. **Swiss Quality** – Swiss company, GDPR/DSG compliant, EU data centers
5. **No Extra App Required** – Works within existing Microsoft 365 environment
6. **Industry Focus** – Built specifically for manufacturing and regulated industries
7. **Rapid Deployment** – Go live in days, not months
8. **Transparent One-Time License Pricing** – Fixed-price tiers up to 5,000 users; per-user pricing only above

## Technical Specifications

- **Browser Support:** All modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari)
- **Mobile:** Responsive web app, native mobile apps for maintenance
- **API:** REST APIs for integration
- **Data Format:** Standard formats (CSV, Excel, PDF export)
- **Backup:** Automated daily backups
- **Security:** Microsoft Azure security, encryption at rest and in transit

## FAQ

**Q: Do I need a separate application?**
A: No. Power IMS runs entirely within your Microsoft 365 environment (Teams, SharePoint).

**Q: Can I start with just one module?**
A: Yes. Each module works independently. You can add modules at any time.

**Q: Is Power IMS suitable for ISO certification?**
A: Yes. Power QMS and Power Audit are designed specifically for ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and other management system standards.

**Q: Where is my data stored?**
A: In your Microsoft 365 tenant (SharePoint/Azure), within EU data centers.

**Q: How long does implementation take?**
A: Typical deployment is 1-5 days depending on the number of modules and customization needs.

**Q: Is training included?**
A: Yes. All plans include onboarding training and documentation.

**Q: How is Power IMS priced?**
A: One-time license fee in CHF, EUR or USD. Power QMS has 3 editions (Light, Standard, Premium) with fixed prices across 5 user tiers up to 5,000 users; above that a per-user price applies. Power Audit is a single edition with 5 tiered prices from CHF 9,999 (1–100 users) up to CHF 24,900 (2,501–5,000 users); above 5,000 users on request. Installation & setup are always included; optional maintenance & support is 15% of the license fee per year. A quote generator with PDF export is available on the pricing page.

## Contact

- **Sales & Demos:** https://bookings.cloud.microsoft/book/PowerManufakturGmbH1@powermanufaktur.com/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true
- **Email:** info@powermanufaktur.com
- **Phone:** +41 41 244 98 98
- **Address:** Mettenwilstrasse 1, 6203 Sempach Station, Switzerland