Digital Planning of Harmonised Quality Testing Activities throughout the Product Life Cycle

Contemporary companies tend to avoid quality testing activities as they are regarded as non-value-adding efforts. Nevertheless, certain quality tests are mandatory to ensure the product quality to the customer. In order to reduce financial efforts and avoid testing overhead, quality testing activities need to be planned and harmonised throughout the entire product life cycle. The following paper focuses the development of a digital configuration system for quality testing activities throughout the product life cycle. To identify all important inspection processes, an overview of life cycle-orientated quality testing activities is presented. Thereafter, a development concept for the digital configuration system is introduced. The scope of the paper includes the digitalised process of planning quality testing activities in context of product life cycle management applied within developing and producing companies running volume production.