CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 February 2009
Product News
QMC and Covisint to Provide OEMs With Global Supply Chain Visibility
QMC, developer of CM4D software, a market leader in Product Quality Validation (PQV), and Covisint announced they are working together to provide OEMs and suppliers with a collaborative workspace enabling instant visibility into the quality status of parts anywhere across a global supply chain.
In spite of today’s abundance of manufacturing data, companies often face the challenge of not being able to surgically provide the right information about parts to the right people at the right time. To do this, manufacturers need to create a virtual product using information from the factory floor as they manufacture the physical product. This virtual product can then be transmitted instantaneously and simultaneously throughout the supply chain. Often, however, this information is buried in a complex labyrinth of incompatible systems and formats, or it is just not known that one part of an organization has information that would be valuable to another part. As a result, designs take longer and cost more, products are recalled, shipments are missed or contain faulty parts and other errors are needlessly made.
“QMC understands the entire product life cycle and global supply chain extremely well, giving it a unique perspective from which to pinpoint and address the key problems facing manufacturing,” said David McGuffie, President of Compuware Covisint. “With Covisint’s heritage in securely connecting entire communities of users, QMC now has an incredibly strong platform to leverage and extend their PQV capabilities. This has exciting potential.”
The QMC relationship with Covisint will make the right quality information strategically actionable and timely to achieve business goals. QMC will leverage Covisint’s secure collaboration platform to provide instant visibility into the quality and status of parts across the global supply chain.
“This Covisint/QMC relationship promises a great marriage of technology and business, providing organizations anywhere on the planet with the information they need to get the job done in the most accurate and efficient way,” said Dale Mahrle, President of QMC LLC. “When it comes to securely exchanging information across systems, geographies and organizations, Covisint is the gold standard.”
Covisint
Covisint’s on-demand collaboration platform helps virtual communities securely access, use and share time sensitive information. Covisint solves business problems by streamlining and automating processes globally--connecting state and nationally based communities, organizations and systems in the healthcare, automotive and financial services industries, as well as the public sector.
QMC
Developer of CM4D software, QMC offers manufacturers a single automated solution for leveraging measurement information across their enterprise so that critical quality problems are identified early, before they become larger build issues. Also a provider of in-process metrology integration and dimensional management services, QMC is a full-service source for integrated quality solutions.
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