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Volker Albrecht reflects on the future of quality management solutions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nearly all manufacturers, no matter their location, size or market segment, recognize that the key to an improved competitive position is to continue their digital transformation journey \u2013 and \u00a0they realize that they need to get specific about it. In many cases today, this pursuit focuses on driving quality into every corner of product development. \u201cOur customers and our partners all recognize the importance of quality, that it needs to be considered from product design up through execution,\u201d says Volker Albrecht, CEO of Siemens Digital Logistics and Business Line Head in Digital Manufacturing<\/a>. \u201cAnd when you think about trends toward circularity and sustainability, end-to-end quality is needed more than ever before.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only has Volker Albrecht\u2019s professional journey informed his vision for this holistic, end-to-end quality, but it also reflects Siemens\u2019 approach to digital manufacturing. Beginning his career in Siemens Factory Automation Solutions, Albrecht shifted his focus to software as VP Strategy, Portfolio and Product Management Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM). Then, when the company acquired its digital logistics portfolio and determined that these offerings belonged with the software unit, Albrecht was nominated as CEO of Digital Logistics. And while he continues in this role, he is also responsible for key products in Siemens Digital Manufacturing \u2013 including quality management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a living example of what the company wants to achieve with Siemens Xcelerator as a whole,\u201d Volker Albrecht says. Siemens Xcelerator is the digital business platform for logistics, digital manufacturing and the rest of Siemens industrial software portfolio. \u201cWe are bringing things together that belong together to see how much more value we can add for our customers. That\u2019s basically my story as well.\u201d He is now helping to bring the latest technologies, including industrial artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud deployment, to bear on the quality and compliance initiatives of Siemens customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pursuing quality as ONE Tech Company<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To Volker Albrecht, quality is part and parcel of the continuous workflow he and his teams seek to implement. In this respect, Albrecht\u2019s work is not split between the dual roles he now serves. Instead, he pursues a unified mission across logistics and digital manufacturing, as well as any technologies these domains touch. This reach includes products from Siemens and from numerous technology partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This all-encompassing view is now shared across all Siemens businesses through the recently launched ONE Tech Company program<\/a>. Siemens Xcelerator is the backbone of this program, enabling seamless integration of cutting-edge partner technologies into industrial ecosystems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the ONE Tech Company program, Siemens has extended to the whole company what we at Digital Industries Software have basically been doing for years,\u201d Volker Albrecht says. \u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s about looking at things from the customer perspective, bringing things together and getting out of departmental silos.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ONE Tech Company program draws on the strong, outcome-focused ecosystems created with our partners and on internal capabilities to drive the next stage of industrial transformation. It moves quality out of its traditional isolated domain and helps customers to extend the quality domain into all product lifecycle processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Embedding quality excellence across the product lifecycle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2025, Siemens marked its 40th<\/sup> year of making quality and compliance management a focal point of its mission in digital industries software. When the company acquired a best-in-class quality management system (QMS), Siemens R&D efforts applied our know-how to extend the reach of QMS software beyond its traditional focus on manufacturing repeatability and customer complaints. A siloed approach was soon replaced with a holistic solution modeled on the Deming \u201cPlan, Do, Check, Act\u201d cycle. This approach supports the entire product lifecycle to address manufacturing challenges and ensure that users can meet their business targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The holistic approach also supports the entire product value chain with interconnected continuous improvement processes. Extending the reach of quality and compliance initiatives even further, Siemens now supports closed loop quality (CLQ). This approach brings insights gained from each product cycle around to the next production run of that product and also back to the design team to leverage lessons learned as they develop the next product. CLQ was first defined when Volker Albrecht was VP of the Opcenter MOM <\/a>strategy and portfolio management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broadening the quality mission to cross-domain collaborative work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Siemens Digital Industries Software introduced Teamcenter\u00ae Quality<\/a> in 2021, expanding our QMS capabilities into a complete lifecycle management ecosystem built on the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. By leveraging the wide portfolio of Teamcenter with combined QMS and product lifecycle management (PLM)<\/a> capabilities, manufacturers can achieve improved efficiency throughout the product lifecycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through seamless coordination between QMS processes and product development, the Siemens portfolio supports quality professionals<\/a> to effectively and efficiently incorporate requirements into the product lifecycle. This holistic software ecosystem helps to streamline decision-making processes, reduce errors and enhance overall productivity. Additionally, manufacturers can leverage the Siemens portfolio to extend excellence beyond the company\u2019s manufacturing domain through collaborative partnerships with suppliers. Siemens technology enables our customers to forge deeper, more meaningful relationships with their supplier network, creating a shared commitment to quality that enhances their entire value chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Expanding the quality footprint to engineering domains<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Siemens has also combined product design and production process measurement technologies to close the loop between the as-built and the as-designed product. Variation Analysis (VA)<\/a>, available for Teamcenter and NX software, is used to design and validate geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) with 3D tolerance analysis and variation simulation for parts and assemblies. Plus, Siemens Dimensional Reporting and Analytics (DPV)<\/a> is an integrated set of tools that provides real time capture and analysis of production process data, enabling quick problem resolution, reduction of production down-time, and the overall improvement of in-depth analysis on the build process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elevating your core processes using cloud-based QMS solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To help each customer gain the advantages of cloud technology whatever their particular needs are, Siemens offers products that are modular, secure and deployment-agnostic, such as Teamcenter X Quality<\/a> and Opcenter X Quality<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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