QUALITY LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT Trademark

computer software for unification of the quality analysis, design, and control processes that span a product or process lifecycle, with an emphasis on tying manufacturing and field issues back to design or manufacturing root causes in a closed-loop process, that features system decomposition, collaboration, analysis, authoring, and publishing, analysis using core techniques such as FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) and QFD (Quality Function Deployment), publishing encompassing associated end-user documentation such as control and inspection plans, for use by manufacturers in discrete and process manufacturing and other industries or functions with complex quality processes