Siemens PLM Software Tecnomatix quality management solutions
Quality management solutions close the loop between production and design allowing you to continuously improve the quality process program after program
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Quality issues and your PLM strategy
Virtually every manufacturing organization struggles with quality issues due to part manufacturing and assembly build variation. If build variation is not properly managed, it can lead to poor product quality, rework, production delays and warranty issues – all of which directly impact your corporate bottom line. Effectively managing quality is a tremendous challenge that requires a well-defined quality process that actually begins early in the product development cycle. It involves a wide range of people in different organizations or companies, including styling, design, manufacturing, assembly, tooling and your suppliers. Managing quality also requires using interoperable tools throughout your design and manufacturing processes to create, maintain and share quality deliverables. Your company may be challenged by the Discrete manufacturing organizations following quality-related issues, which typically use disparate quality systems that are common in many manufacturing have evolved out of need and local design. operations: This results in a variety of inefficiencies, • Disconnected quality systems across including labor-intensive document your product lifecycle creation and its continued maintenance, • Misaligned quality targets and duplicate data input, a lack of re-usable production results information and the proliferation of • Inability to unify your quality metrics file or paper-based systems. Typically, by correlating your product design and these systems have no correlation to manufacturing results your company’s digital product and • Substantial investments required to manufacturing information. Similarly, they achieve your quality goals are disconnected from your supply chain, which prevents you from closing the loop on your quality process lifecycle.
2 Siemens PLM Software’s approach to quality management
Siemens PLM Software’s quality By using PLM to associate product, Siemens’ quality management management solutions facilitate process, resource and production solutions can ensure crucial digital innovation by enabling your company quality data, manufacturers have a full continuity throughout your product to link quality disciplines with all of arsenal of process-oriented technology lifecycle. This continuity allows you to your manufacturing and product that enables them to establish their bring more innovative products to engineering domains, including your operations as leaders in digital design market faster, maintain quality and process layout and design, process and digital manufacturing. Siemens’ improve production efficiency, as well simulation/engineering and production solutions bridge the gap between as to leverage the power of your global management systems. Siemens’ product design and product delivery manufacturing operations and boost comprehensive portfolio of quality by managing both the design and overall corporate profitability. solutions is built on Teamcenter® execution of manufacturing processes software, the world’s most widely with a fully associative data model. Quality management solutions target deployed product lifecycle critical business initiatives, including: management (PLM) foundation, Siemens’ quality management which offers manufacturers the most solutions can extend your PLM New product development – Perform versatile and scalable digital lifecycle foundation to incorporate quality in-depth analysis during product management solution available. metrics into your product, process, development to ensure that your product resource and plant data. By leveraging designs can be built while achieving their Siemens’ quality management Siemens’ sophisticated PLM quality targets. solutions streamline the complete technology, you can surpass your quality management process. By competition with a comprehensive Global design and development – enabling you to incorporate robust solution that directly addresses your Reap the benefits of knowing that your quality management capabilities most pressing quality-related issues in extended global enterprise is working into your product development, the same PLM environment you use to on the same page throughout your manufacturing and production deliver quality products on a design portfolio’s lifecycle. execution processes, Siemens’ anywhere, build anywhere, source solutions position quality as an anywhere and sell anywhere basis. Commonization and re-use – integral element of your PLM Streamline and standardize for efficiency; environment. gain a competitive advantage in enabling quality throughout your production Lifecycle quality environments.
Knowledge/intellectual property management – Increase your quality management knowledge to ensure success and capture new insights for future development.
Compliance – Automate data collection at the point of manufacture to reduce risk and ensure compliance.
Production efficiency – Identify quality trends and escapes early so you can address these considerations in a timely manner.
3 Business value of Siemens’ quality management solutions
Siemens PLM Software’s quality optimized to identify the best tolerance management solutions enable and assembly datum targeting schemes. you to establish quality strategies that A simple no-cost locating change in your take full advantage of a PLM foundation. virtual environment may be all you need This closes a critical loop in the quality to meet your quality goals. lifecycle from design engineering to as-built production and back, maximizing You can reduce costs by minimizing your best business strategy for long-term assembly build problems. Just imagine profitability and growth. how much faster you can bring products to market if you could eliminate Reduce your cost of quality and unnecessary tooling or reduce quality development times issues and rework by 30 percent. You can reduce the cost to achieve your What if you could relax tolerances and quality targets by predicting variation eliminate unnecessary and expensive and assembly build problems – machining processes – without before they happen. All dimensional sacrificing product quality? If you really characteristics can be analyzed early in want to take the leap and eliminate the product development lifecycle, well physical prototypes, early assembly before any physical parts are made or analysis is a must. It is the only effective tooling is built. Assemblies can be way to ensure that you will not have assembly build problems.
4 Streamline the entire dimensional change, updates and dependencies “At the initial design stage, they can quality process concurrently throughout your analyze whether the structure, Siemens’ quality management manufacturing process, ensuring positioning and assembly methods solutions provide a completely superior quality and efficient use of meet technical specifications, and digital environment for your quality production equipment. Automatically ultimately suggest how to optimize process from early concept through propagate dimensional design these factors to enhance the quality production. Siemens’ quality requirements to downstream of body design.” management environment provides all manufacturing and quality applications Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. of the tools needed to define quality where it is needed most – and do this data, make data-driven decisions, without data duplication. manage and coordinate changes through your product lifecycle and Build quality and compliance facilitate collaboration among multiple into your processes departments while ensuring the Visibility into the details of product highest quality end product for your manufacturing is critical because customer base. quality problems and warranty costs quickly erode profitability and impact Build more innovative products customer satisfaction. Digital content, The introduction of complex products process accountability and compliance should not mean a more complex throughout your manufacturing quality process. Streamline your process allows full product and process development process so that genealogy and traceability for all sophisticated products can be products, from planning to as-built manufactured rapidly while achieving data requirements. superior quality. Leverage product
5 Siemens PLM Software advantage
Siemens advantage Why it matters
Open architecture for Siemens PLM Software is recognized as the world’s premier provider of product lifecycle unparalleled leveragability management solutions as defined by numerous criteria, including technological achievement, market share, industry experience and an installed base of world-class customers. Backed by Siemens’ proven ability to deliver collaborative product data management (cPDM) solutions to over five million worldwide users, Siemens’ quality management solutions are built on the de facto standard for PLM deployment.
The entire Siemens PLM Software portfolio leverages an open PLM architecture, enabling Siemens’ quality management solutions to integrate with any PDM system. This flexibility translates into more cost effective deployments and unparalleled flexibility that enables you to integrate your Siemens’ PLM investments with other enterprise systems.
World-class application Quality management solutions from other vendors lack either the application coverage or portfolio true associative CAD integration to improve your entire manufacturing cycle. Similarly, they often lack the management underpinnings to leverage your company’s entire range of product lifecycle information on a global scale. Siemens is uniquely able to offer a comprehensive and integrated suite of industry-leading. workflow-based applications that address all of your manufacturing requirements in a flexible CAD-embedded or CAD-neutral environment.
Industry-specific value Siemens’ quality management solutions support a broad range of industries, including automotive, trucking, heavy equipment, aerospace, defense, consumer products and machinery – and that only begins to scratch the surface of Siemens’ proven experience. This makes it easy for you to implement quality management solutions that reflect your industry’s best practices.
6 Product design • Tecnomatix Variation Analysis
Manufacturers are under intense Optimize your product and process competitive pressure to improve Siemens’ quality management the dimensional quality of their solutions enable you to identify and products. Poor dimensional quality fix dimensional problems early in the will cause assembly build problems design cycle, thereby avoiding resulting in parts that do not fit or assembly build and quality launch function properly. This will inevitably issues caused by excessive variation. lead to unnecessary quality issues, With these solutions, design and rework and warranty defects – all of assembly process flaws can be resolved which significantly impact your before the physical parts are made or corporate bottom line. In addition, tooling is built. many manufacturers have implemented initiatives to eliminate Identify critical dimensions and physical prototypes, reduce their key characteristics development costs and accelerate their Siemens’ quality management time-to-market. How do you ensure solutions identify critical dimensions, that your first production assembly tolerances and assembly processes generated from a virtual prototype is that significantly contribute to going to work? Can you really afford to variation. Since these considerations Siemens advantage Why it matters shut down one of your production significantly impact product quality, lines because dimensional variation manufacturers require a design quality adversely impacts your next product solution capable of providing careful Open architecture for Siemens PLM Software is recognized as the world’s premier provider of product lifecycle launch? monitoring. unparalleled leveragability management solutions as defined by numerous criteria, including technological achievement, market share, industry experience and an installed base of world-class Siemens’ powerful dimensional Reduce costs customers. Backed by Siemens’ proven ability to deliver collaborative product data analysis tools enable you to predict Siemens’ quality management management (cPDM) solutions to over five million worldwide users, Siemens’ quality the amounts and causes of variation solutions reduce development costs management solutions are built on the de facto standard for PLM deployment. in your manufacturing operations. by improving product quality, These tools reduce the negative impact eliminating physical prototypes and The entire Siemens PLM Software portfolio leverages an open PLM architecture, enabling of variation on quality, cost and time- accelerating time-to-market. In Siemens’ quality management solutions to integrate with any PDM system. This flexibility to-market. Your engineers can create addition, manufacturing costs can be translates into more cost effective deployments and unparalleled flexibility that enables a 3D digital prototype to simulate reduced by maximizing allowable part you to integrate your Siemens’ PLM investments with other enterprise systems. production, including a full tolerances (allowing the use of faster, representation of parts, tolerances cheaper and less costly manufacturing World-class application Quality management solutions from other vendors lack either the application coverage or and process variation. You can use this processes), while still maintaining portfolio true associative CAD integration to improve your entire manufacturing cycle. Similarly, model to predict build problems and critical assembly dimensional they often lack the management underpinnings to leverage your company’s entire range identify their root causes – before specifications. Controlling these of product lifecycle information on a global scale. Siemens is uniquely able to offer a physical parts are made or tooling is dimensional characteristics comprehensive and integrated suite of industry-leading. workflow-based applications that built. This digital approach allows your helps minimize quality issues, rework address all of your manufacturing requirements in a flexible CAD-embedded or CAD-neutral engineers to evaluate changes and and warranty defects. As a result, environment. verify that these changes will actually product quality and your corporate fix the problem early in the design bottom line are significantly improved Industry-specific value Siemens’ quality management solutions support a broad range of industries, including process, where changes are less by ensuring that parts fit and work automotive, trucking, heavy equipment, aerospace, defense, consumer products and expensive. together properly – the first time. machinery – and that only begins to scratch the surface of Siemens’ proven experience. This makes it easy for you to implement quality management solutions that reflect your industry’s best practices.
7 Manufacturing • NX CMM
The growing adoption of Six Sigma and lean manufacturing initiatives highlights the importance that manufacturers place on continued product quality improvement. However, despite this emphasis, many manufacturers find it difficult to provide their quality improvement teams with the information and tools they need to fulfill their missions properly.
Siemens’ quality management solutions help manufacturers achieve their quality and cost targets by providing the right information to the right person at the right time.
Leverage your CAD investment You can significantly reduce the cost You can adjust tolerances after the Your computer-aided design (CAD) of engineering changes through the fact to better understand a problem. system is a major IT investment. use of associative geometry updates. A very powerful method is to add Utilizing existing systems to perform Product features, tolerances and probe surface profile tolerances to get a additional work only makes good paths are associative to the CAD better idea of where a group of business sense. Siemens’ quality geometry and PMI so that when the features has moved. Again, the result management solutions utilize your geometry or tolerance definition is to determine the amount of part CAD systems to create programs for changes, the inspection feature movement needed to move the your coordinate measurement definition will automatically update to features into an acceptable location. machines (CMMs). Your products’ incorporate the engineering change. geometry already appears in a CAD In addition to lowering the cost of Finally, working in the CAD system format, so it would be most efficient engineering change, this approach promotes the usage and review of to create your CMM programs accelerates your time-to-market with inspection results by your engineers directly from the CAD model. the correct product. and designers. Instead of using a flat file or having to learn another CMM programs can be saved into your In-depth analysis application, they can use the same PLM/PDM system since your CMM Viewing the measurements in your CAD environment they use on an programs are embedded within the CAD system allows you to see how everyday basis. CAD file. You can easily propagate the real part compares with the your product and manufacturing nominal, as-designed part. Since a information (PMI) down to your quality picture is worth a thousand words, you programming application. This leads are much more likely to see a problem to lower cost of implementation and and properly resolve it with the first lower cost of total ownership since try. As you know, it is not uncommon you are re-using solutions you already for users to say that a hole needs to have and leveraging your existing move 0.025 inches and then, for corporate standards. whatever reason, to inadvertently shim the part in the wrong direction.
8 Production • Tecnomatix Dimensional Planning and Validation • Tecnomatix CMM Inspection Execution
Companies spend millions of dollars Evaluate historical records collecting measurement inspection Summary reports consolidate extremely data to monitor and improve their large amounts of measurement data, manufacturing processes. Much of this enabling decision makers to quickly investment is not fully leveraged review this information. You can use because there often is no effective way this capability to request datafrom any to manage and visualize that data so it time period in a report that helps you can be easily accessed from any understand your quality trends. You can desktop in an enterprise. Effectively also use this information to compare capturing measurement inpection data processes and/or plants, understand can provide you with a key competitive your processes’ stability and summarize advantage, help improve quality and your company’s quality performance reduce your product development over any time period. costs. Streamline the quality process and Siemens’ quality management improve communication solutions help manufacturers enhance Siemens’ quality management their quality initiatives by providing an solutions streamline your quality easy-to-use web-based reporting documentation process by providing environment and a powerful graphical a fast and efficient way to associate environment that you can use to measurement data with 3D geometry. analyze build quality issues, provide You can create and update technical decision support data and collaborate documents in seconds by using in the process of resolving issues Siemens’ revolutionary publishing throughout your enterprise. By making technology to provide smart quality information immediately connectivity between 3D geometry accessible, you can understand your and the measurement data source. plants’ quality issues, their historical You can use Siemens’ production trends and the differences between quality environment to graphically individual plants in your manufacturing display, analyze and communicate operation. This enables your company production measurement data to attain its quality objectives faster throughout your extended enterprise. and more cost effectively. This provides a tremendous productivity gain compared with Resolve production build problems traditional approaches that typically Siemens’ quality management require the use of many disconnected solutions help identify and resolve software tools and systems. production build problems by reporting and analyzing data as it You can minimize your CMM operator becomes available directly from your training requirements with a common corporate measurement or inspection user interface for each machine, as equipment and supply chain providers. well as a consistent data analysis You can leverage Siemens’ solutions to and reporting platform, which is quickly determine the root cause of customizable with standard off-the- product quality issues from any shelf programming tools. location in the world, thereby minimizing the travel required to address your quality issues.
9 Teamcenter and PLM Open – your enterprise foundation for quality management
Teamcenter backbone example, many companies need to and managed within the open Siemens’ quality management leverage CAD data from multiple Teamcenter environment. In addition, solutions utilize the power of systems. With the rise of global software tools, such as JT Open, PLM Teamcenter. This helps companies outsourcing and extended enterprises, Vis and PLM XML, help Teamcenter organize their product, manufacturing an effective digital manufacturing regulate the persistent and real-time and quality knowledge in associated strategy must accommodate data from flow of product, process, resource and data structures that can be re-used in third-party and legacy systems. plant data throughout your PLM future product programs and multiple processes. quality improvement initiatives. With Siemens is committed to developing best practices reflected in product technology and conducting business At Siemens, openness is more than just features, resource libraries, process in a way that meets customer a technology claim; it is a way of doing templates and plant layouts, you can requirements for openness. business. Siemens has organized eliminate time wasted on duplicate Siemens solutions leverage the JT™ communities of customers, partners efforts and ensure that your quality data format – collaboration used and technology adopters that are teams are always implementing throughout the global manufacturing dedicated to advancing the principle of optimal improvement plans. industry. open communication for open innovation. PLM Open – open foundation, open Siemens PLM Software applications applications, open for business share a common data model called the To improve competitiveness, lifecycle data architecture (LDA) manufacturers must be able to through an open Teamcenter leverage best-in-class solutions from a backbone, which ensures that variety of vendors and partners. For applications are tightly integrated
10 Siemens quality knowledge management
Siemens’ quality management information you use to define your solutions are particularly valuable products, processes, production because they are powered by resources and plant facilities. This Teamcenter, the industry’s leading gives users complete confidence that product lifecycle knowledge they are working with the correct management environment. data in configurations that simplify Teamcenter enables organizations their jobs. to establish digital continuity from start to finish. With full visibility into Leverage knowledge on new your product lifecycle processes, all product programs of the entitled participants in your You can manage all of your company’s extended enterprise are able to react key intellectual property in to change more effectively, make the Teamcenter, including all of your right decisions earlier and contribute product program information. to your processes for building high Knowing this, you can leverage and quality products faster and more re-use existing product, process, plant cost effectively. and quality-related information in future product programs. This allows A single source of knowledge you to leverage your best practices According to industry reports, and existing know-how to create manufacturing engineers spend over and execute the most efficient quality half their time searching for data. systems for your newest improvement Siemens’ quality management initiatives. solutions make information available to these users on demand by leveraging Teamcenter or whatever PDM system your company employs. Teamcenter can manage all the
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