Manufacturing Industry
Instron links quality and service issues via Agile PLM.(CASE-IN-POINT)
Manufacturing Business Technology, March, 2006
When product engineers at Instron are hard at work on a new product, or revisions of existing products, they have the software equivalent of a quality expert looking over their shoulders. That's because Instron--a Norwood, Mass.-based manufacturer of materials testing equipment--has deployed an application from Agile Software that makes quality issues actionable from within Agile's product life-cycle management (PLM) suite.
"When our engineers do a search or open an item, they see a little icon that indicates there is associated quality information," says Cameron Bickel, Instron's manager of document control. "They can click on the quality tab and drill into as much of that information as they wish." Instron began using Agile's PLM suite in 1999,...
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