CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 May 2007
Implementation Investments
Q-Checker Has Been Chosen by Ford Motor Company as its Product Data Quality Solution
Dassault Systèmes and RAND North America, a joint venture of Dassault Systèmes and Rand A Technology Corporation announced that its Q-Checker software has been deployed by Ford Motor Company ("Ford") throughout its global operations, including its Ford North America, Ford Europe, as well as its Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo Cars divisions. Q-Checker is a product data quality management tool for CATIA and is developed by Transcat PLM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes.
RAND North America and Transcat PLM partnered with Ford throughout a detailed evaluation of Q-Checker software, to ensure that the software would effectively enable Ford to streamline its engineering design process to reduce time to market as well as enhance design and product quality. During the evaluation process, RAND North America and Transcat PLM assessed requirements, customized Q-Checker and conducted training. Q-Checker should effectively serve to set Ford's global design standards, enforce best practices and allow CAD models to flow more easily throughout the design and manufacturing process and between different business units.
"We are very pleased that after an extensive benchmarking process, Ford has chosen to implement Q-Checker as its global product data quality assurance solution," said Brian Semkiw CEO RAND North America. "This is an important win for us and we look forward to working with Ford on this strategic initiative."
"Having Q-Checker implemented by Ford, illustrates the power of DS's partner ecosystem," said John Leney, senior director, Dassault Systèmes. "Industry leading products, integrated tightly with CATIA and Dassault Systèmes' other PLM solutions, bring our customers' diverse added functionality and customization."
Q-Checker software helps companies reduce design errors and improve the product design process, by ensuring that 3D CAD models can be used effectively throughout the entire design and manufacturing process. Q-Checker offers an integrated application for checking the quality and integrity of CAD models and drawings, and it ensures that company design standards and best practices have been used in creating each model. Q-Checker has a track record of helping users rectify design problems as soon as they are discovered by most large automotive and aerospace companies using CATIA.
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