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By supporting the needs of your design, manufacturing

and production domains, Tecnomatix QualityManagement solution enables your go-to-market

teams to fully understand and balance the tradeoffs

between cost, time and the need to deliver the product

as designed. Quality Management provides unique

capabilities to support each of these domains, including:

CAD-embedded and CAD-neutral technologies to

enable your design teams to perform variation

analysis and define critical-to-quality features

CAD-embedded CMM offline programming and inspection to enable manufacturing engineering

teams to accelerate programming and facilitate web-based program execution

Production analysis and reporting tools that enable your extended enterprise to collect, manage,

analyze and report on production-related quality information in a fully associated 3D environment.

Todays quality management challenges

Design engineering must define product fit, form and function without placing undue burden on your

production costs. Because the links between engineering and production teams span several domains,

quality information is not easily shared, management processes are disconnected and multiple tools

are needed to reach end results. Without the ability to share and leverage this information, you are

likely to accumulate excessive tooling and metrology costs while reducing the productivity of many

people in many areas.

Our solution

Quality Management enables teams to predict quality issues before they impact inspection or stop

production completely. The solutions integration with the Siemens PLM Softwares Teamcenter suite

of digital lifecycle management solutions enables you to bring historical quality information to yourentire enterprise.

Tecnomatix Quality ManagementAn end-to-end quality management solution for delivering quality information across your product lifecycle

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Benefits

Reduce cost by minimizing designchange and manufacturing rework

Optimize design by predictingvariation of key qualitycharacteristics

Prioritize key quality characteristicsto focus attention on the mostimportant parts and dimensions

Reduce tooling and metrology costs

Automatically update qualityfeature, tolerance and probe path toreflect geometry changes

Leverage your existing CAD andPLM investments

Directly import CMM inspectiondata (DML)

Use industry standard formats toperform consistent mathematicalanalysis and run inspection jobs onmultiple CMMs

Leverage common views formultiple disciplines and businessprocesses

Increase design quality by linkingreal-world process capabilities toengineering activities

Summary

Tecnomatix softwares Quality Management solution is the markets only end-to-end quality management solution, addressing

a full product lifecycle that crosses all of your design, manufacturing planning and production business processes. The solution enables

you to build a PLM foundation for critical product quality features that are identified, documented and shared with the entire enterprise.

Quality Managements unique capabilities enable you to predict quality issues before they adversely impact inspection or disrupt

production completely.

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In turn, access to historical information facilitates root

cause analysis, which enables you to fix quality problems

quickly by helping your design, manufacturing and

production teams understand the relationships between

your 3D product, process, resource and plantspecifications. This approach reduces the time and

money otherwise wasted on production work-around

and repair activities. Three unique capabilities distinguish

the Quality Management solution.

Native and neutral CAD variation analysis and

quality feature definition

Knowing when you can relax tolerances and eliminate expensive machining processes without

sacrificing product quality is a constant goal of dimensional management. Each time you optimize the

balance between these factors, program quality increases and the total cost of quality decreases.

With Tecnomatix CAD-embedded quality capabilities, your design teams can define and analyze all

dimensional characteristics in a native CAD environment. This eliminates the need for CAD translators,

which would otherwise introduce more variation. The CAD-neutral approach facilitates the highest

degree of flexibility, assuring that your analysis is consistent regardless of your chosen CAD product.

The approach also enables your downstream manufacturing and production systems to leverage highly

reliable model features.

CMM offline inspection programming and remote execution

By seamlessly sharing and verifying dimensional quality information, your manufacturing engineers are

better able to plan for quality. Once this information is verified, it can be used to automatically define

inspection routines for CMM processes on your shop floor.

The solutions CMM offline program and inspection capabilities fully support GD&T while automatically

updating inspection features, tolerances and paths based on master model geometry revisions. This

approach speeds development time and reduces cost in your production environment.

It also lets you streamline your development processes so that you can manufacture sophisticated

products rapidly. Similarly, the solution enables you to leverage product changes, updates and

dependencies concurrently throughout your manufacturing process ensuring superior quality and the

efficient use of your production equipment.

Production analysis and reporting

Quality Managements reporting and analysis capabilities enable you to capture and manage as-designed

measurement points and plans in a fully associated 3D environment that includes your product, process,

resource and plant information. This unique approach lets decision makers and problem solvers at

every level access and report on historical information at anytime from anywhere. Access to 3D

product models, 3D tooling and other 3D resources helps your teams more quickly understand what is

going on and how these factors impact quality.

Production teams can use these tools to automatically and proactively identify quality trends usinginformation captured throughout your production footprint. You can use this information to compare

production processes and/or plants, facilitate process stability and summarize process performance over

time. These tools let you fix problems before they adversely affect product quality, operational

productivity or overall profitability.

Features

Native and neutral CAD variationanalysis and quality feature definition

Variation and stack up analysis onnative or neutral CAD models

Ranking of tolerances based oncontribution to variation

GD&T and PMI stored directly inCAD model

Automatic tools for definingassembly sequences and methods

User-specific quality characteristicsimulation, including distances,angles, clearances and virtual size

Automatic feature recognition

Graphical, text and html display ofsimulation results

CMM offline programmingand inspection

Automated planning andprogramming of shop floorinspection processes

Verification of tolerance informationand inspection data against designparameters

3D representation of GD&T anddimensional tolerances (softgauge)

Ability of component modelrevisions to automatically driveinspection features, tolerances andpath updates

Shop floor integration to collectmeasurement information atinspection

Blade and torus feature support

Production analysis and reporting

Enterprise access to as-designedmeasurement features andprocess plans

Near real-time in-process datacapture dissemination

Automatic report templates popu-lated with in-process inspections

Monitoring from virtually anycapture device on the shop floor

3D statistical analysis of in-processinspection data allowingmanipulation of annotations and

multiple inspection routine loadingOn-demand historical summariesand/or ability to track qualityinformation over a giventime period

Contact

Siemens PLM Software

Americas 800 498 5351Europe 44 (0) 1276 702000Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3333

www.siemens.com/plm

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