FORD Deploys Q-Checker Throughout its Global Brand Engineering Operations

Q-Checker software has been deployed by Ford Motor Company (“Ford”) (NYSE: F) 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 Systemes.

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, 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.

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. QChecker 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 proven track record of helping users rectify design problems as soon as they are discovered, and it is considered an industry standard by most large automotive and aerospace companies using CATIA.

Applied has become a Q-Checker reseller in the UK and is well positioned, because of our extensive experience in the Automotive, Aerospace and Rail sectors, to support the OEM’s and their suppliers with the increasing numbers of project outsourcing and data integration strategies.