Siemens Opcenter Quality (formerly IBS QMS Professional) is a quality management system (QMS) that enables organizations to safeguard compliance, optimize quality, reduce defect and rework costs and achieve operational excellence by increasing process stability. The integrated process capabilities (control charts, statistics, quality gates) can detect production errors to avoid further processing and shipment of nonconforming material. Siemens Opcenter Quality brings higher integration between processes, global user groups and manufacturers to suppliers. Siemens Opcenter Quality is a process-oriented, modular system that supports the closed-loop quality product lifecycle, managing complexities for planning, control and monitoring of processes and corporate quality. It is a multi-lingual, cross-industry computer-aided quality (CAQ) solution that supports the ability to fulfill international quality standards including DIN EN ISO 9000, IATF 16949:2016, Q101 and VDA 6.1 and others.