Quality4.0 – Transparent product quality supervision in the age of Industry 4.0

Situation:

  • Progressive digitalization is changing the game of many industrial sectors.
  • One of the main aspects of todays’ Industry 4.0 vision is the horizontal integration of information over complete supply chains.
  • To share quality information bidirectional across company boundaries helps as well steel customers as suppliers to lower production costs, increase yield and improve identification of quality problems.
  • But: To share wrong quality information may cause severe customer uncertainty and long-term damaged customer confidence, and should be avoided at all costs.

Solution:

  • An adaptive Quality4.0 platform will be developed realising the horizontal integration of quality information over the complete supply chain.
  • This platform allows online analytics of large data streams to realise decisions on product quality and provide tailored information of high reliability that can be individually exchanged with customers.
  • Within Quality4.0, innovative methods using machine learning algorithms will be developed in order to be able to model customer-relationship and automatically adapt this data exchange to the available customer and order information.

This project aims to establish a new level of customer-supplier collaboration and put a common focus on the manufacturing of highest quality products in times of challenging global markets.

This project is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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