Maximize quality with a Smart Manufacturing solution

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In today’s automotive industry, stricter homologation and environmental regulations and increasing product complexity have put automotive manufacturers at greater risk for warranty issues and recalls than ever before. A comprehensive Smart Manufacturing approach mitigates these risks with a closed-loop system that integrates product design, manufacturing design, quality and the supply chain to safeguard compliance and product integrity.

With Siemens as a partner in your Smart Manufacturing journey, you can bring quality best practices on top of this closed loop to boost the whole value chain. By applying innovative technologies, you can connect typically disconnected quality processes and feed information from the line back into process and product design to ensure high quality from launch through production.

In today’s automotive industry, stricter homologation and environmental regulations and increasing product complexity have put automotive manufacturers at greater risk for warranty issues and recalls than ever before. A comprehensive Smart Manufacturing approach mitigates these risks with a closed-loop system that integrates product design, manufacturing design, quality and the supply chain to safeguard compliance and product integrity.

With Siemens as a partner in your Smart Manufacturing journey, you can bring quality best practices on top of this closed loop to boost the whole value chain. By applying innovative technologies, you can connect typically disconnected quality processes and feed information from the line back into process and product design to ensure high quality from launch through production.

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A holistic approach to quality and compliance

Closed loop quality management provides the ideal support to meet international guidelines and standards, including ISO 9001, IATF 16949, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).

Siemens’ Smart Manufacturing portfolio includes a closed loop quality solution that enables OEMs and suppliers to break down barriers and adjust processes based on lessons learned.

In the digital realm, manufacturers can simulate design and production process virtually, and sort out problems before the product launch. Leveraging a wider portfolio, the manufacturers can begin with design for quality, leveraging 2D/3D models and PMIs, BOM and BOP structures. Simulation and variation analysis are enabled by a virtual replication of the manufacturing facility-a digital twin.

Our quality project management supports the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) processes to monitor milestones. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) are fed back to the control plans to define the proper inspection so that manufacturers can prevent problems before they occur in the plant and protect compliance. With continuous improvement and seamless change management, issues are resolved faster, and costs are reduced.

Boost quality in automotive manufacturing today and tomorrow

Our Smart Manufacturing architecture extends core solutions seamlessly by integrating a low-code platform and provides cloud accessibility for future quality management. When both OEMs and suppliers implement comprehensive and digital quality management solutions, they exceed the quality targets throughout production, and satisfy customers with reliable and high-quality products.

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