Manufacturers must ask a lot of their quality data collection systems. Ideally, these systems should not only capture quality data while a product or service is manufactured, assembled and installed, but they should also aid in pre-production preparation. They should enable timely transparency across production sites, even those operating under different languages, regulations and jurisdictions.
When done right, advanced data collection systems can support any quality related data collection and reporting application. When choosing a system, leaders must consider both immediate needs and future growth. In other words: will it scale? And, how do we best utilize it as we expand?