Make Quality Top Priority in Your Globally Dispersed Product Development Process
An effective Quality Management process provides support for rapid adoption and consistent and repeatable application of quality improvement methodologies. As manufacturers across the globe are experiencing increased competitive pressure, price erosion and shorter time-to-market requirements, they also face the challenge of products being developed and manufactured by dispersed teams and locations. Quality can suffer in this distributed environment if it's not made a priority. As a result, many companies are now focused on improving overall product quality and streamlining the processes across the product development and manufacturing organizations.
By adopting quality management processes, companies will be able to implement a formalized quality process that is optimized for their unique requirements, use a common language and shared terminology across the company, expose performance bottlenecks and drive continuous, yet controlled, process improvements. Ultimately, quality management process improvements lead to time-to-market benefits, increased competitive advantage, and happier customers.
PTC's Product Development System (PDS) facilitates the adoption, speed, and repeatability of quality management methodologies such as SixSigma, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), ISO 9000, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), and more. By defining, capturing and automating the process electronically, you can reduce non-value-added paperwork associated with creating, managing and sharing of quality information and deliverables.
PTC's PDS provides a central repository for quality-related information and self-service project management capabilities that enable users to track milestones, activities, tasks, deliverables and resources at all phases of the quality process, and streamline process management and document-approval routings.
