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Achieving a complete risk analysis: How Opcenter Quality supports the FMEA process

April 6, 2020

In the automotive world, manufacturing defects can have costly and serious ramifications: increased warranty costs, impaired product functionality and safety,…

By Valentina Lupo
3 MIN READ

Why automotive tier suppliers need a closed-loop Quality Management System

March 4, 2020

Automotive Suppliers face a number of key challenges to meeting the increasing quality demands of their customers — demands that may exceed the capabilities of existing quality systems.

By Valentina Lupo
2 MIN READ

Meeting Regulatory Quality Requirements in the Automotive Industry

September 6, 2019

How many mistakes do we make? Do we really solve the problems? Sometimes typical solutions to a problem are based on quick actions to contain the problem itself. But only if we deeply analyze root ca…

By Valentina Lupo
3 MIN READ

Integrated Quality Tools for Supplier Quality Management

August 6, 2019

Increasing global competition over the past decade has forced automotive OEMs and their suppliers to improve quality and efficiency. There is a growing need for tools that make it possible to measure…

By Valentina Lupo
2 MIN READ

End-to-End Quality in Automotive Manufacturing is Driving Business Forward

May 11, 2018

In the first blogs in this series, I explained end-to-end quality for the Automotive industry, and detailed some of the challenges unique to the industry that are driving the need to adopt this holis…

By giuliofolgarait
3 MIN READ

End-to-End Quality in Automotive Manufacturing is Driving Business Forward

May 9, 2018

In the first part of this blog series, I defined end-to-end quality for the Automotive industry. Here I’d like to go into a bit more detail about some of the unique characteristics of this industry t…

By giuliofolgarait
2 MIN READ

End-to-End Quality in Automotive Manufacturing is Driving Business Forward

May 2, 2018

It’s a great time to be championing manufacturing quality. I’ve been working in the Automotive industry for over 15 years, and I’m excited to see the strides we are making in end-to-end quality. We a…

By giuliofolgarait
3 MIN READ

FMEA as a Business Process Tool

September 28, 2017

More and more industries are discovering what the Automotive and Heavy Equipment companies have known for years. The same tools they use and trust to define, quantify and control risk around manufact…

By Claudia Basso
3 MIN READ

Product Complexity in The Automotive Industry

September 21, 2017

As the complexity of products in the automotive industry is increasing rapidly, companies must find ways to manage that complexity across the value chain and throughout the product lifecycle. A seaml…

By Claudia Basso
2 MIN READ