How Wabtec Keeps New Product Introduction on the Fast Track
Delivering the level of quality your customers expect at the ever-increasing pace of business today is more challenging than ever. You need to make quality a strategic priority throughout the manufacturing lifecycle -- from managing new product specifications and the analysis of product and process design to communicating product quality planning requirements to your suppliers.
Join Stephen Pfister, Senior Manager Product Management, at Wabtec Corporation and David Isaacson, Senior Director of Product Marketing, ETQ, to learn how a flexible QMS has been a cornerstone of Wabtec’s successful new product introductions. Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services in the freight rail, transit, mining, industrial and marine industries and the largest producer of diesel-electric locomotives in North America.
You’ll hear their quality journey and learn:
- How Wabtec uses a QMS to reduce the cost of quality across their organization and ensure suppliers are meeting their quality commitments and customer feedback is used throughout product design
- How an integrated QMS streamlines their manufacturing framework and new product introduction process including their new fully electric locomotives.
- Best practices and lessons learned along the way
Speakers:
Stephen Pfister is a Senior Manager of Product Management at Wabtec Corporation, a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. He has ten years of experience in manufacturing and rail industries. He is currently responsible for technical product management of quality management systems and supply chain applications. Stephen is also a certified ISO9001:2015 global auditor and Lean Six Sigma evangelist. He resides in Erie, PA.
David Isaacson, Senior Director, Product Marketing, ETQ has over 25 years experience in software product marketing and product management. David has successfully brought SaaS products to market for a variety of industries and high-growth companies. He has worked for software companies such as Anaqua, VFA/Accruent, and Oracle, where he led the product management team responsible for integrating analytics into the Oracle database.
