"Every critical information is driven through a specific process"

Quality methods were originally based on the management of technical data items such as drawings, parts lists, bills of material, and specifications. Very quickly however, companies realized that having the right document or data repository was only a first step. Monitoring the way these data change and evolve over time (via processes) soon became essential for any meaningful step towards Quality. This is why the latest revision of the ISO standard now relies heavily on the validity and auditability of change processes.

Although a process approach corresponds to the real operational behavior of every company, it can be very difficult to model and implement in software. In adopting this process approach, organizations must be simple, efficient and pragmatic. Implementing Quality processes must be seen as progress and not as a constraint.

The challenge of the ISO/TS 16949 can be simply summarized:
A new process-centric approach to handle the omnipresence of complex data

With the Advitium solution, LASCOM's customers can improve their competitiveness by reducing and rationalizing the product development and industrialization cycle. The core capability of LASCOM's Advitium solution is management of both complex processes and associated data, which is complex in its own right.

With its combined data and process engines, Advitium enables the different business functions of a corporation to collaborate with the right data at the right time in the process.

The convergence of data and processes enables faster (yet more controlled) reaction cycles and thereby achieve considerable efficiency gains.

With the process approach, processes build data that in turn activate processes.