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Quality audit and assessment. How to drive best practices<\/em> by using the unique Teamcenter collaboration platform<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my 15 years as a user of quality management systems (QMS) in the automotive sector, including my involvement in QMS rollouts at several plants and locations, I experienced firsthand the challenge of \u201cdigital gaps.\u201d In particular, quality assessment tools used to create audits typically were stand-alone software components, resulting in a gap between quality and compliance efforts. Consequently, the value gained by processing the audit findings and using the problem-solving process is reduced and effective lessons learned are not fully integrated into quality processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So naturally, when I came onboard at Siemens Digital Industries Software, I was on the lookout for technology that closes this digital gap. I\u2019m happy to share with you the results of this effort. Our recently released Teamcenter Quality<\/a> includes the new Teamcenter Quality Audit & Assessment module<\/a>, which uniquely supports efficient audit processes through a unified collaborative platform. Allow me to tell you a bit more about the challenges of quality audit management and how Teamcenter Quality Audit & Assessment overcomes them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why a quality and compliance gap makes quality auditing difficult<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite the quality objectives of the industrial\/manufacturing sectors, quality and compliance sometimes feel at odds with one another. Theoretically, compliance measures are designed to ensure the quality and safety of your products, in conformity with enterprise quality management policies. Quality and safety are required in the manufacturing processes you use and in the products you deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my experience, however, the rigor and evidence required by many regulatory and industry standards have unintentionally led to burdensome efforts in documentation. All too often, it seemed that our compliance efforts became document-driven rather than quality-driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This clash is particularly apparent when audits and assessments are conducted in a traditional system, where different aspects of quality and compliance are managed as independent silos within disconnected systems. The quality department is focused on ensuring that the manufacturing process and as-built product achieve the quality and safety standards established in the as-designed and as-planned product. The compliance department and associated auditors (both internal and external) are focused on demonstrating to regulatory and industrial bodies that the process and product conform with their standards. These points of focus can and should be complementary, but siloed systems hinder cross-departmental interactions and create a considerable risk of discrepancies between the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our vision for complementary quality audit and compliance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At Siemens, I joined a team committed to offering a solution that ensures continuous, real-time compliance with main quality standards and industry guidelines while also facilitating efficient achievement of product and process quality. We recognized three key requirements our solution must meet to achieve this goal. First, an integrated and collaborative digital backbone<\/strong> for data and documents would provide visibility for all stakeholders of relevant cross-departmental information, and that information would always be up-to-date. Second, a comprehensive quality management system<\/strong> would oversee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n