Interview with Cummins Inc.
"The biggest value of using Stages is the flexibility of the visualization. You can take very complicated processes, and with the abilities that Stages offers, you can zero in on different aspects of it, whether it's a role-based view, or whether it's a more function-based view, or whether it's a value stream. Or you have something like product compliance and you want to pull that work out, Stages enables you to have the flexibility to see that in different ways."
Rob Heathcote | director of product development quality | Cummins Inc.
Interview with Nexteer Automotive
"All of our processes are mapped to ISO 26262, ISO 21434, and Automotive SPICE® ... When we do project instances of the global Stages, we look to see if there are tailorings, if they are still compliant with those standards or if there are requirements that are missing. So it is more of an informed decision whether to go ahead with that tailoring or not to approve it."
Umesh Sambhari | Manager and global lead, Process Excellence Group | Nexteer Automotive
Interview with Geely Auto
"We have been using the Stages tool from the very beginning and it has helped us a lot. Especially its meta-model can also help us to manage the elements encountered in process management to sort things out. Because the meta-model is based on best practices … we were able to easily define the process ... Geely is now a global vehicle manufacturer. We have several compliance requirements. These requirements are well managed in Stages, and you can also do compliance mapping in Stages. Then we apply it to our actual project to tailor the standard process."
Li Yeyu | director of system processes, R&D Department | Geely Auto
Interview with Siemens Healthineers
"For me as a compliance manager, Stages helps with an integrated compliance database. We can add and change standards and bring them to users so they can map the content to their process activities and artifacts."
Sina Wipfel | reference process manager for standardized product lifecycle processes | Siemens Healthineers
Interview with LG
"When organizations manage Roles and Responsibilities in Stages by defining roles and mapping them to responsibility for activities, it becomes clearer what information is needed for work."
Lee Hak-Jun | principal process architect | LG
Interview with Aptiv
"We decided to use Stages to address several key pain points like Automotive SPICE or disconnected processes … It really transformed the way we approach our process design."
Wayne Johnson | global program management process and systems manager | Aptiv
Interview with General Motors
"Stages helped us immensely to improve just simply by getting all of our knowledge and all of your process elements in one formal system — and all are talking to each other. It helps get us out of the old way of thinking about processes in managing individual Excel files and PowerPoint files."
Nick Wilmot | business process lead | General Motors
Interview with Siemens
"Stages is useful in getting people together, harmonizing our processes and identifying ways for our engineers to work as optimally as possible."
Shamron Awwal | senior process engineer |Siemens
Interview with Honeywell
"We have adopted Stages as our fundamental platform for all engineering processes."
Kyle Gehan | senior manager | Honeywell
Interview with Continental
"When I do Automotive SPICE® assessments the teams use Stages to prove how well they are doing on these assessments."
James Greenfield | senior process and assessment consultant |Continental
Interview with General Motors
"Stages has been an invaluable tool for the work I do because I go there to figure out what’s happening on every stage of the life cycle for the products I am working with and get all the relevant documentation I need."
Travis Foust | algorithm design development engineer |General Motors
Interview with Continental
"Stages helped us to visualize a common product lifecycle with common terminology and a maturity model that is now very well established within the company."
Harald Wilhelm | director of processes and standards | North America, Continental
Interview with ZF
"Stages helped us to think about how to make our processes simpler and more streamlined so we can easily model them and connect them to other processes."
Jason Hall | engineering quality manager | ZF
Interview with Lockheed Martin
"Stages helps the Systems Engineering Organization to identify opportunities to become more efficient in our processes and to identify gaps that were not seen when we were focused on document-based processes."
Teresa McCarthy, QA engineering senior, Aeronautics, Lockheed Martin
Interview with Nexteer Automotive
"Traditional functional organizations often have silos. Stages helped us to give insights into which interdependences different groups have and how they rely on each other’s inputs and outputs."
Shriram Patki | engineering manager | Nexteer Automotive
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