PLM for Product Quality: Ensure Closed-Loop Processes With the Digital Thread
Achieve more and speed up issue resolution across the lifecycle with automated processes and end-to-end traceability.
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What is closed-loop quality? Why is it important?
Closed-loop quality is the practice of improving product quality through cross-domain collaboration enabled by connected PLM tools. It ensures all stakeholders work from the same information, leverage the same workflows and automation, and contribute to the overall quality of their products at each stage of the product lifecycle.
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Use PLM to optimize your product quality processes
As a leader of your company, you need to close the loop on product quality while meeting growing compliance requirements. How do you focus on continuous product improvement when burdened with decentralized or manual systems and globally distributed teams?
With PLM, you will introduce digital traceability and data governance into your product development processes. The result? You will improve quality benchmarks and increase customer satisfaction while inspiring greater product innovation.
Benefits of closed-loop quality
Increased Collaboration
When all stakeholders have access to and confidence in their product data, they can spend more time constructively collaborating and less time collecting and aligning on the facts.
Increased Customer Satisfaction
Accelerating corrective actions and improving overall quality leads to fewer defects in the field, more on-time shipments, and overall happier customers
Continuous Improvement
Better cross-domain collaboration and access to more downstream product data are essential to continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Improve product quality with PLM
By integrating PLM into your quality initiatives, you will gain direct visibility to traceable product information throughout every step of the lifecycle. The benefits? Addressing customer complaints and non-conformances immediately with corrective and preventative actions.
Here are a few metrics on how to achieve this with PLM:
PLM capabilities for quality
For manufacturers embarking on a digital transformation, PLM provides a solid foundation for the smart, connected enterprise by enabling a digital thread of information.
BOM Management
Managing the part definition as a Bill of Material (BOM) with elements, such as electronics and software components, provides reliable access and change control to product information for improving quality.
Engineering Change Management
Using PLM for change management ensures a more rigorous, standard process, involving all necessary stakeholders with traceability and governance.
Product Configuration Management
Leverage options and variants, alternate/substitute parts, part effectivity, and BOM transformation to ensure the right product is being produced with the right components.
Product Data Management
Ensure all product data is readily accessible by managing multi-CAD data in a single system using tight integration with Creo, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and other CAD tools.
Project Governance and Workflow
Manage and execute complex product development projects with powerful PLM collaboration tools such as change management workflows.
Quality Management
Provide quality engineers with standard tools and workflows like CAPA, SCAR, and FMEA.
Variant Management
Easily manage all product variants and their derivative documents to ensure quality actions are applied appropriately and their effects are propagated downstream.
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Use PLM to integrate product and quality data
As a leader of your company, you need to close the loop on product quality while meeting growing compliance requirements. How do you focus on continuous product improvement when burdened with decentralized or manual systems and globally distributed teams?
With PLM, you will introduce digital traceability and data governance into your product development processes. The result? You will improve quality benchmarks and increase customer satisfaction while inspiring greater product innovation. Watch this short video featuring IDC analysts to learn more.
Real-world applications
Terumo BCT
Hear experts from Terumo BCT and PTC discuss the roles that modern PLM and the digital thread play in improving product quality.
Fresenius Medical Care
Learn how Fresenius went from paper-based to part-centric product development to improve quality through cross-discipline collaboration.
Bose
Learn how Bose quickly transformed itself to eliminate data silos, speed products to market, and meet safety regulations amidst product diversification.
Additional closed-loop quality resources
Leveraging a quality-first PLM strategy
Understand how PLM can help get high-quality products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
Boost efficiency and improve quality
Learn how manufacturing leaders plan to use PLM capabilities to increase production while meeting their quality initiatives.
Take charge of your quality goals
Learn how to navigate the hurdles of siloed systems, manual data processes, and complex products in manufacturing.
