In order to stay competitive and distinguish yourself in the marketplace, your company must reduce product and operating costs while improving product quality. Every day you must make trade-off decisions between cost, time and the need to meet design intent. Making the wrong decisions can have a devastating impact on many aspects of your business.

Despite the priority you give to product quality, your quality management teams may still have difficulty getting the information they need. Since you’re already using product lifecycle management (PLM) to streamline product data and processes, why not include your quality teams within the same system you use to manage your product lifecycle?

Teamcenter Delivers Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)

The Teamcenter solution for corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) provides an enterprise-wide product quality management solution for capturing various forms of complaints, defects and non-conformances. Using Teamcenter for quality management, you can:

• Follow a formal process to systematically investigate, analyze and resolve quality issues
• Streamline the definition of measures to prevent future re-occurrences
• Report the results in a simple, intuitive manner

Teamcenter provides closed-loop issue resolution for identifying, analyzing and sharing critical product quality data, built on an enterprise-scalable foundation. Your design, manufacturing, and quality improvement teams can share the same views of the information they need to directly impact Six Sigma and lean initiatives.

By providing visibility into critical product quality characteristics, failures/non-conformances, and resolutions to these issues, the Teamcenter quality management solution allows you to make smarter decisions across the global, extended enterprise. This streamlines CAPA efficiency and reduces the overall cost of quality.