The High Cost of Poor Product Quality
The High Cost of Poor Product Quality
Poor quality leads to costly product returns, warranty expense, and recalls—not to mention the long-term damage to brand reputation and sales. Many quality issues are caused by outdated practices, including:
Reactive Quality Processes
Slow Issue Resolution
Lack of Visibility
Reduce Product Risk and Warranty Costs
Design for Quality
A single product thread extends collaboration and processes across the company, so quality teams can influence product designs with quality best practices. Improving quality before a product is built improves customer satisfaction and reduces costs associated with poor quality such as scrap and rework.
Faster Issue Resolution
A single product thread with contextualized collaboration allows quality, service, and engineering teams to accelerate root cause analyses and implement fixes faster. Once a problem component has been isolated, companies can quickly search where else it’s used to determine if corrective actions are needed elsewhere—before they even materialize.
Supplier Quality
Extend quality best practices to suppliers to ensure product standards are met across the supply chain. Easily identify suppliers with the highest quality scores and incorporate supply chain intelligence to choose higher quality components.
More Capabilities
Document Management
Streamline document processes, enhance accessibility, and ensure version control with automated workflows that govern how documents are created, approved, secured, published, and accessed. Features include in-file text search, filters, e-signatures, and automated training.
CAPAs
Resolve root causes faster by connecting quality events to engineering and design, while aggregating issues into a Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) workflow process. Know what’s required by who and when, ensuring teams collaborate effectively and efficiently.
Training Management
Ensure compliance with all product usage guidelines and regulatory requirements by centralizing the planning, administration, and enforcement of training programs across employees and suppliers. Tailor programs by role so the right person has the right information.
Non-Conformances
Centralize non-conformance processes—including non-conformance reports (NCRs) and non-conforming material reports (NCMRs)—to identify, investigate, and resolve issues faster.
Customer Issue Resolution
Seamlessly connect and propagate customer cases to complaints, eliminating manual entry, duplication time, and errors. Issue traceability streamlines regulatory compliance while closed loop integration from service to quality to product reduces customer issue to resolution time.
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