Improve Product Quality

Exceed customers’ quality expectations with an enterprise-wide, PLM-driven approach to product quality.

Everyone has a role to play in improving quality


Demand for compliant, sustainable, high-quality products is constantly rising, but it can be hard to consistently meet the level of quality expectations customers have without taking a holistic, enterprise-wide approach to quality management, where each function plays a critical role in driving continuous quality improvements.

Opportunities to drive quality improvements

Digital transformation enables product companies to drive quality improvements by ensuring that as-built matches as-designed, providing end-to-end traceability for a product’s hardware and software components, and facilitating continuous quality improvements through closed-loop engineering.

Digital transformation enables product companies to drive quality improvements by ensuring that as-built matches as-designed, providing end-to-end traceability for a product’s hardware and software components, and facilitating continuous quality improvements through closed-loop engineering.

Change control

Reduce product development time and the downstream impact of engineering changes by automating and executing changes more efficiently.

Reduce product development time and the downstream impact of engineering changes by automating and executing changes more efficiently. Explore More Explore More

Document control

Manage and link all product-related data to ensure the correct versions of documents are distributed to the right people at the right time.

Manage and link all product-related data to ensure the correct versions of documents are distributed to the right people at the right time. Explore More Explore More

Risk control

Identify, analyze, and mitigate hazards and risks in the software development lifecycle to reduce the probability of adverse events and help mitigate the impact when they do occur.

Identify, analyze, and mitigate hazards and risks in the software development lifecycle to reduce the probability of adverse events and help mitigate the impact when they do occur. Explore More Explore More

Software testing and quality assurance

Verify product functionality, safety, performance, security, and availability to ensure that products, software, and systems meet agreed-upon requirements.

Verify product functionality, safety, performance, security, and availability to ensure that products, software, and systems meet agreed-upon requirements. Explore More Explore More

Closed-loop feedback

Drive continuous quality improvements by collecting product failure and performance data and feeding it back to engineering.

Drive continuous quality improvements by collecting product failure and performance data and feeding it back to engineering. Explore More Explore More

Simulation-driven design

Achieve first-time quality by optimizing designs with advanced CAD capabilities like simulation and analysis or generative design.

Achieve first-time quality by optimizing designs with advanced CAD capabilities like simulation and analysis or generative design. Explore More Explore More

The link between quality and sustainability

Within product development, quality and sustainability go hand in hand. While each initiative has different standards and requirements that product development teams must adhere to, they deliver similar business impacts, including increased customer satisfaction, improved brand reputation, and reduced costs and risk of maintenance, repair, and replacement. On the opposite end, poor quality can contribute to unnecessary waste in the form of delays, rework, warranty claims, and product recalls.

As sustainability emerges alongside quality as a key driver of innovation, leading companies are embracing the challenge of driving sustainability improvements across the product lifecycle to decrease carbon emissions and gain a competitive advantage.

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Drive quality improvements with PTC technology

Enterprise PLM

Reduce the costs of poor quality and late-stage engineering changes by building quality, reliability, safety, and process control into every part of the product lifecycle.

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ALM

Deliver high-quality software by unifying requirements, risk, and test management using agile engineering capabilities.

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CAD

Create 3D digital models of products to define, share, review, simulate, and modify designs before they're manufactured.

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SLM

Manage service, parts, technical communication, and product support with an asset-centric approach that’s complementary to PLM.

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Augmented Reality

Enhance quality control for your products and processes by providing frontline workers with visual guidance and 3D instructions.

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Industrial Connectivity

Securely move industrial operations data amongst devices, machines, and systems for automation, control, and insights.

Industrial connectivity is the foundation for smart manufacturing and connected service. It helps to optimize efficiency, improve quality, reduce downtime, and enable predictive maintenance.

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Digital Thread

Ensure that accurate, up-to-date product data is accessible, reliable, timely, actionable, and delivered in context to stakeholders across the value chain.

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How PTC customers are driving quality improvements

Explore our case studies to learn how our customers are using PTC solutions to drive quality improvements across the product lifecycle.

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Lixil

Learn how Lixil’s American Standard brand used Creo to design and test complex and innovative products with greater confidence, reducing iterations of prototyping and testing.

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Vaillant Group

Explore how Windchill helped Vaillant Group achieve faster time to implement engineering changes while reducing rework and time to market.

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Medtronic

Discover how Codebeamer is helping Medtronic ’s neuromodulation department stay ahead of its competition in terms of product quality, agility, and software innovation and development.

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Carlin

Explore how Carlin created a higher-quality racecar by using Creo Simulation Live to test the design’s efficacy before going to production.

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Landian

Discover how Landian achieved their goal of increasing quality, efficiency, and accuracy by establishing a product development process that unifies PDM and CAD.

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Lifetime products

Read how Windchill helped Lifetime Products overcome quality challenges by transforming their paper-based workstreams into a digitized and standardized process.

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Overcome your top business challenges with PTC

Manage product complexity

Reduce costs

Drive growth and innovation

Transform the customer experience

Manage product complexity Overcome product development challenges to effectively manage product complexity across the value chain. Reduce costs Transform product development to reduce costs and drive efficiency. See how PTC solutions help. Drive growth and innovation Speed product lifecycle innovation by transforming your product development processes. See how PTC helps. Transform the customer experience Advance your products faster in the ways that matter most to your customers—and deliver the type of service that will keep them coming back.
Insights on how digital transformation improves product quality

Driving quality with PLM and the digital thread

Discover the best ways to effectively enhance product quality across your enterprise with a PLM-driven digital thread.

What’s getting in the way of your quality goals?

Determine the right quality initiatives for your organization by investigating the most common obstacles to quality and understanding their far-reaching impact.

What is a quality management system (QMS)?

Learn how a workflow-based quality management system can help deliver a centralized means for tracking, managing, and controlling product quality.

What is digital quality management (DQM)?

Explore how digital quality management enables product companies to efficiently manage and maintain high standards of quality in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Understanding the benefits of ALM tools

Learn how application lifecycle management tools drive productivity and quality improvements by helping with the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software.

Best practices for a holistic, quality-first PLM strategy

Learn how best-in-class organizations are exceeding customer expectations and driving even greater business outcomes by prioritizing quality in their PLM strategy.