Optimizing Quality Management with Teamcenter
What is Quality Management?
Quality management involves the strategic planning, organization and review of all quality assurance activities. Traditionally, quality control teams have played a key role in supporting manufacturing and compliance excellence, but today’s manufacturers recognize that quality must be embedded throughout every aspect of the organization and at every stage within product development. Quality management systems (QMS) seamlessly align with the unique needs of organizations at any scale by enhancing collaboration across diverse teams and relying on standardized, streamlined processes that meet industry standards.
The Need for Comprehensive Quality Management
Quality management plays a crucial role in ensuring that procurement and production meet high standards, which directly impacts the reliability and satisfaction of the end product. By continuously improving product and process quality, companies not only enhance the value delivered to customers but also build a strong foundation for long-term success. Effective quality management simplifies compliance with industry standards, making it easier for businesses to operate confidently within regulatory frameworks. Additionally, managing quality processes across the entire product lifecycle maximizes consistency and performance, while leveraging cloud-based solutions enables streamlined and accessible oversight. Together, these practices contribute to achieving operational excellence and sustaining a competitive edge.
Teamcenter Quality for Quality Management
Siemens Teamcenter Quality is designed to address key industry challenges like reducing product costs, improving operational efficiency and ensuring top-tier product quality. In today’s competitive market, companies must distinguish themselves by delivering high-quality products while managing distributed global teams and optimizing processes across the product lifecycle. Many organizations struggle to maintain consistent quality from design through manufacturing and face hurdles in mitigating risks and reducing errors. Teamcenter Quality solves these pain points by providing a closed-loop approach to quality management, ensuring that quality is integrated into every stage of product development, from the initial design through production and onto the shop floor.
Siemens Teamcenter Quality seamlessly integrates with Siemens Teamcenter PLM, creating a unified platform for holistic quality management. With features for root cause analysis, problem-solving and change management, Teamcenter Quality helps companies reduce time-to-market, improve overall product quality and lower total cost of ownership.
Features of Teamcenter Quality
- Enterprise-wide quality management that allows teams to integrate quality management across design, manufacturing and engineering
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) that supports comprehensive quality planning and milestone tracking
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) which identifies and mitigates potential risks within virtual product and process structures
- Control and inspection planning that allows users to define each step of processes and activities to control and inspect critical manufacturing elements
- Ability to capture quality deviations, enabling root cause analysis and resolution
- Quality analytics including interactive dashboards and data analysis reports for enhanced decision-making
- Continuous improvement tools to facilitate issue tracking, customer complaint management and corrective actions to support ongoing advancements
- Integration of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data for 3D model visualization and traceability
- Change management integration to ensure teams are seamlessly communicating updates across domains, enabling synchronized product and process data
- User-friendly interfaces supporting easy adoption and increased productivity
- Unified collaboration platform enabling seamless integration with Teamcenter PLM, fostering end-to-end lifecycle management and streamlined teamwork
Key Benefits of Teamcenter Quality
- Ensure high standards in procurement and production quality
- Continuously enhance product and process quality
- Simplify adherence to quality standards
- Drive quality excellence throughout the product lifecycle
- Oversee quality processes seamlessly in the cloud
Teamcenter Quality Integration
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Tools
- Computer-Aided Quality (CAQ) Tools
- Supplier Collaboration Tools
- Regulatory Compliance Systems
- Internet of Things and Data Analytics Platforms
Real World Teamcenter Quality Applications
One global leader in recreational vehicle manufacturing partnered with our team to elevate their mass customization capabilities. To bring their vision to life, we led a comprehensive Industry 4.0 Assessment, delivering a tailored digitalization maturity plan that aligned with their unique product and business goals. Our team deployed a full Manufacturing Execution System (MES) across all North American production facilities, enabling seamless configure-to-order (CTO) capabilities. By linking design to manufacturing through an integrated PLM solution, Teamcenter Quality, we enhanced production flexibility, allowing for just-in-time part delivery and frequency-based quality inspections. As a result, the company has achieved scalable design capabilities, expanded market share and established a more collaborative, efficient environment through the Digital Thread.
In another project, a major automotive manufacturer engaged us to support their sustainability and digital manufacturing initiatives for electric vehicle (EV) battery production at a North American facility. With ambitious goals to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, they required an advanced, integrated MES solution to standardize processes and ensure real-time quality control. Our team led workshops and design sessions, ultimately recommending the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio as the ideal solution for their needs. Through phased MES implementation and integration with PLM and ERP systems like Teamcenter Quality, we enabled end-to-end visibility and seamless data flow across their Digital Thread. This integration has empowered the company to proactively address quality issues, improve production efficiency, and support the growth of their sustainable EV battery line.
Engineering’s Expertise
To help overcome the challenges of digital transformation, Engineering Industries eXcellence works with customers across all industrial sectors to define what Industry 4.0 means to them and how to achieve it. A strategic partnership with us can provide guidance for those trying to navigate the digital landscape across different systems, business units and technologies. Our collaborative methodology and industry expertise help enterprises define their Industry 4.0 roadmap via a solution maturity model that aligns with their unique multi-year vision.
Siemens Digital Industries Software is well-known for enabling transformation across digital enterprises of all shapes and sizes. As a certified reseller, solution provider and system integrator, Engineering Industries eXcellence leverages Siemens' robust product portfolio of digital solutions to provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. Engineering Industries eXcellence is the only partner in the world that has the combined vision, industry experience, resources and technical skillset to deliver integrated solutions across all of Siemens Digital Industries' technology offerings.
Siemens’ Teamcenter software offering is the world’s most widely used PLM system. While most companies see Teamcenter as a tool to manage engineering data alone, we focus on Teamcenter to bridge the gap between engineering and production as it relates to manufacturing. With a true concurrent engineering solution that allows parallel execution of product engineering and process planning activities, you can drastically improve profitability, time-to-market and quality.
