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Ogihara Implements PLM Solution for Quality Compliance
Automotive supplier taps Aras for Microsoft-based, open source app for enterprise quality management and advance product quality planning compliance
Lawrence, MA — April 11, 2007 — Automotive supplier Ogihara America Corporation has signed up to use a product lifecycle management solution from Aras Corporation for enterprise quality management and advanced product quality planning (APQP) compliance, the solution provider has announced.
Ogihara is a leading automotive supplier of vehicle body parts, including door, fender, hood and roof panels, for DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Mitsubishi and Nissan. The company needed better visibility and coordination of quality compliance processes to ensure that stringent quality levels are achieved.
The Microsoft-based, open source Aras Innovator solution that Ogihara is adopting will manage corrective and preventive action (CAPA) issue resolution for closed-loop accountability and provide defect tracking and nonconforming material management. Phase-gate new product project management based on the APQP requirements will include deliverable rollups for dashboard visibility and risk management based on failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and control plans.
"We consider our quality compliance processes strategic and an essential part of our ability to deliver superior value to customers," said Dennis Henning, IT manager for Ogihara. "The Aras Microsoft enterprise open source solutions give us the control and flexibility we demand and the confidence we require for our enterprise-wide deployment."
Ogihara is developing an Aras Innovator adapter to the Progress Software Sonic Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) for integration to its QAD MFG/PRO enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The adapter will be posted as a community-contributed open source adapter for free download.
Ogihara is a leading automotive supplier of vehicle body parts, including door, fender, hood and roof panels, for DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Mitsubishi and Nissan. The company needed better visibility and coordination of quality compliance processes to ensure that stringent quality levels are achieved.
The Microsoft-based, open source Aras Innovator solution that Ogihara is adopting will manage corrective and preventive action (CAPA) issue resolution for closed-loop accountability and provide defect tracking and nonconforming material management. Phase-gate new product project management based on the APQP requirements will include deliverable rollups for dashboard visibility and risk management based on failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and control plans.
"We consider our quality compliance processes strategic and an essential part of our ability to deliver superior value to customers," said Dennis Henning, IT manager for Ogihara. "The Aras Microsoft enterprise open source solutions give us the control and flexibility we demand and the confidence we require for our enterprise-wide deployment."
Ogihara is developing an Aras Innovator adapter to the Progress Software Sonic Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) for integration to its QAD MFG/PRO enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The adapter will be posted as a community-contributed open source adapter for free download.
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