Manufacturing
Manufacturers must manage quality and reliability throughout multiple areas of the enterprise: new product design, assembly, testing, product assurance, supply chain management, logistics and customer service. As margins shrink and competition grows there is increased pressure on manufacturers to compete and execute without generating costly mistakes and losing first-to-market gains.
Product lifecycles are now shorter due to faster commoditization, so defects must be eliminated before first-generation products reach the market. Winning customer popularity and keeping up with the competition requires precision and integrated quality processes. Many reports say that 80% of quality errors are repeat mistakes that can be avoided. In order to ensure quality from cradle to grave, manufacturers need to be able to analyze and report on quality assessments from design through to manufacturing and share best practices and lessons learned among all regions and business units.
Increasingly, manufacturers are performing quality assessments early and often throughout the product lifecycle to ensure quality in their design, their processes and their finished goods. These manufacturers need to use common templates that align consistent metrics and quality standards across their global enterprise.
| Challenge | Solution |
| Integrate quality throughout the product lifecycle | Integrate Quality Management – Stature provides organizations with a lifecycle approach to quality risk management. Risks and quality issues are assessed at each stage of product development, and integrated fully. Design defects can be prevented proactively, before a product hits the manufacturing stage, and repeat errors are drastically reduced. |
| Minimal transparency into risk management practices by senior leaders | Act decisively – Effective quality risk management with Stature allows senior leadership, stakeholders and program management to make better decisions with more accurate information. |
| Respond to immediate changes in customer demand | Automate Key Quality Processes – Stature enables organizations to unify all facets of the organization across multiple phases of the quality lifecycle. Shared quality specifications link each step of the quality lifecycle through shared terminology, critical characteristic management, process controls and recommendation management. This enables continual product improvement, improved response time, reduced scrap and rework, elimination of downtime and overall faster time-to-market. |
| Recalls, voluntarily initiated or otherwise | Standardize Quality Assessments – Stature is a platform for innovative, integrated, and intelligent quality risk management, providing organizations with the ability to understand quality issues and lower costs, improve safety and drive service delivery. |
| Lack of a consistent, standard format for quality identification, analysis and mitigation, making information sharing across functional groups difficult | Reduce silos – A common quality framework across your organization ensures that everyone is speaking the same quality language, helps develop a unified quality culture and ensures that you are always aware of the risks that can impact your business. |
| Reduced budgets and resources to effectively manage risk | Maximize Resources – Stature ensures that your quality management and audit teams are spending less time gathering information and more time lowering risks. |
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