In all likelihood, your company has already encountered difficulties harmonizing quality management systems (QMS) with product life cycle management (PLM) systems. Synergies between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management, and service will not materialize on their own—even in a closed-loop QMS. Part one of this three-part series describes how integrating the QMS and PLM can improve quality management processes throughout the enterprise.

Leveraging PLM integration to strengthen your business case

If you can make a strong business case to justify the investment in new QMS capabilities, executives are more likely to buy in. Specifically, PLM and QMS integration is one aspect that you can use to strengthen your business case and win buy-in from top business decision makers.

Closed-loop quality management begins at the highest levels of your organization. Without buy-in from key stakeholders, your quality management initiatives will fall short of your expectations. In a worst-case scenario, cost of quality may actually increase as the result of poor leadership and error-prone software implementation.

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