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Use Case

Product Quality and Safety Assurance

 

When products fail to perform as intended, manufacturers can incur significant losses. By applying analytics to product usage and consumption data, they can reduce the time it takes to detect quality issues, then correct problems before they impact customers.

Risk Reduction

Reduce number of returned or defective products
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Customer Experience

Make your products safer and a better fit to customer needs

Bottom-Line Returns

Reduce quality control operational costs

 

Business Problem

When their products don’t perform as intended, manufacturers can incur losses in customer goodwill, future sales, brand equity, regulatory penalties, and claims against warranty reserves. Worse yet, when a product endangers customer health and safety, the resulting mandatory recalls increase losses even more. In some industries, annual warranty costs are as high as five percent of product revenues.

Manufacturers seek to improve product quality and reduce the number of claims by shortening the time it takes to identify, correct, and learn from customer safety and quality experiences.

Alteryx Solution

Recognizing potential quality and safety problems before they affect customers starts with predictive models and tools. Defects don’t arise in a vacuum, and there’s almost always data somewhere — in the supply chain, in procurement, in the sales channel, with customers — that accompanies them. Predictive models are instrumental in blending data from multiple sources so that analysts can mine the data for indicators of product quality.

By collecting data on production and consumption patterns then applying analytics to it, manufacturers can develop a system for notifying customers before claims and recalls come into play. If a component supplier is found to be the cause, manufacturers can also notify teams in procurement to explore alternatives, without disrupting production.

 

Additional Resources

 
 
Starter Kit for Supply Chain
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Analytics Automation for Supply Chain Intelligence
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Customer Success Stories

 
Customer Story
Armor Express Uses Predictive Supply Chain Analytics to Help Protect More Lives
Armor Express took predictive modeling to the next level with real-time data feeds that inform supply chains — saving $500k through inventory optimization.
  • Data Science and Machine Learning
  • Supply Chain
  • Manufacturing
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Customer Story
From problem-solving designs to problem-solving analytics at MillerKnoll
MillerKnoll established an end-to-end analytics architecture to analyze disparate data, and a COE for workforce upskilling—making $300k in annual cost-of-good savings.
  • Sales
  • Supply Chain
  • Manufacturing
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Customer Story
Ansaldo Energia tracks vital production KPIs with automated analytics
Power engineering company, Ansaldo Energia, saved EU1MN by automating key production processes.
  • Analytics Leader
  • Professional
  • Operations
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