The FMEA Service Provider
An FMEA service provider provides professional support for this failure analysis. If the company commissions this, the service provider carries out a comprehensive FMEA analysis. The goal of this analysis is to identify all defects that have a failure-prone effect on the product development process. PLATO e1ns software supports the FMEA service provider in this analysis. A user benefits not only from the fact that the defects are identified and eliminated. With the integrated tools the defects are documented and archived. In this way, it can be ruled out that a detected and already eliminated defect in another product development process will have another failure-prone effect on the product development process.
What is the PLATO e1ns Software?
The PLATO e1ns software systematically supports the applying company to efficiently design the product development process. The failure analysis does not only start when the production process is underway. If a company uses the software optimally, defects can be detected, analyzed and eliminated already in the planning phase and during the preparation of a manufacturing process. This is the best start for the company to actively pursue cost and risk prevention.
Any company using the FMEA software can benefit from the following special features:
With the software, the user can adapt the methods to the individual development phases. This ensures that a defect detected in the earliest phase of the product development process does not carry through to its end.
With the support of the software, a "Single of Information" is developed. This provides access to all data networked within the product creation process. As soon as a defect is detected, the appropriate countermeasures can be initiated.
The software is delivered to the user with an individual method framework. This is ready for immediate use and can be adapted to each individual development process.
In Which Industrial Sectors is the PLATO e1ns Software Used?
The PLATO e1ns software is used in medical technology as well as in the automotive industry.
Companies that manufacture products in the field of medical technology have to cope with two particular challenges. In addition to accurate cost planning, these include ensuring patient safety and meeting specified time-to-market deadlines. These challenges also impose certain conditions on the product development process. For example, the products manufactured in the medical sector must always be of the same high quality. To ensure that this requirement can be met, documentation of the individual manufacturing processes is essential. Errors that creep in here can, in the worst case, cause damage that is hazardous to health. It therefore makes sense to counteract this scenario with a comprehensive failure analysis.
With the help of the software, companies can prevent errors from having such an impact that products already on the market have to be recalled. This is ensured with the comprehensive risk management solutions integrated in the software. This enables the user to analyze even complex processes and to cope with certain requirements resulting from the risk detection of a defect.
In the automotive industry, the priority is to develop new forms of propulsion and alternative fuels. In addition, every manufacturing company must reposition itself to meet customer demands for more e-mobility. This gives rise to new requirements. Product development processes not only have to become more dynamic. They must also follow with certain industry guidelines (such as AIAG/VDA) so that the product can access national and international markets.
This is where the software's solutions for comprehensive failure analysis come in. With a trouble-free production process, companies can not only increase the quality of their products. They also meet the demands of customers when they assume that they are acquiring a safe product with their purchase. Fulfilling warranty claims or guarantee promises will then be a thing of the past, as will cost-intensive product recalls.
To achieve these goals, it is necessary for those responsible to be able to intervene at all stages of the development process. They need central access to plan and document the individual projects. This possibility is given to them with the application of the software.
In addition, the PLATO e1ns software can also be found in other areas of the process industry. Classic representatives of the process industry are the chemical industry and the food industry. Here, too, the product creation processes pose certain challenges that can be solved with the support of the software.
What is FMEA Analysis?
FMEA stands for a well-founded failure analysis that is carried out as part of a product development process. In the best case, the company uses the experience of an FMEA service provider, who uses the software for FMEA in such a way that all individual requirements are met. The goal of this use is to detect and avoid the defects. In addition, the software offers the user the advantage of comprehensive document management. This helps to ensure that once a defect has been identified and eliminated, it will never occur again.
For the automotive industry, an FMEA service provider uses the analysis to comply with the AIAG/VDA alignment process. In medical technology, users of the software take advantage of the fact that effective knowledge management is integrated, which makes it easier to monitor the actions taken in failure analysis.
FMEA analysis is used in particular for product development in medical technology and in the automotive industry. However, it also supports product development in the process industry.
What Benefits does the Software for FMEA Analysis Bring to the User?
With the software for a sound failure analysis, a company finds the optimal solutions for each individual requirements management. Regardless of whether the company operates in medical technology, in a process industry sector or in the automotive industry, defects can be found and analyzed before a product development process even begins.
The e1ns Automotive solution package addresses the specific requirements of AIAG/VDA alignment. This is a particularly important factor for the automotive industry. In addition, the software provides companies with a tool that enables end-to-end advance product quality planning (APQP). Standardized methods are used here, which support the FMEA with a feasibility analysis. This results in the product being delivered on time and the customers being satisfied.
With the Design Control, the e1ns solution package Medical Technology provides the best prerequisites to support the safety and efficiency of product development in the medical field. In addition, companies use this solution package to carry out sound risk and documentation management. This not only ensures the verification of individual defects. The software also helps the user to validate these errors. Time-consuming data maintenance is thus a thing of the past.
Conclusion on the PLATO e1ns Software
Customer requirements in the process industry, new technologies in medical technology and extended industry guidelines - such as the alignment in the automotive industry by AIAG/VDA - lead for many companies to the fact that the complexity of a product development process increases further. The more complex the individual processes are, the more prone they are to errors.
If a company wants to save time and costs, it decides to use software that performs a comprehensive error detection and prevention analysis.
PLATO e1ns software provides the user with many advantages that can be used for comprehensive failure analysis. As a result, the company saves not only money but also time in the preparation and execution of a product development process.