Texas Instruments
Mia Manders
Automating the Production Part Approval Process
"I have had the good fortune to have worked with Mia at two companies and have always been impressed by her strong work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to never miss a deadline. The quality of her work is consistently excellent, well-thought-out and, most importantly, well explained to stakeholders and development teams. Mia is a solid team player and enthusiastically shares new insights, new tools, and tips and tricks with other UX practitioners and is seen as a leader by UX practitioners, stakeholders, and development teams."
Bill Rattner
UX Director
UX CASE STUDY
Texas Instruments
Automating the Production Part Approval Process
Summary
Texas Instruments, a leader in semiconductor and integrated circuit design, set out to create a new application to automate the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP). Common in the automotive and aerospace industries, PPAP ensures manufacturers and suppliers communicate and approve production processes.
The manual nature of this process led to costly delays and frustration for customers needing timely access to auto parts. The challenge was to streamline and automate the PPAP workflow to improve efficiency and reduce wait times.
My role
Lead UX/UI Designer, UX Researcher
The team
1 UX Designer, 1 Project Manager, Development team
Tools
UXpin, Adobe CC, Visual Studio Code, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jira, Confluence
Timeline
6 months
Business Constraints
Stringent timelines
Only 1 Designer
Limited research resources
Business requirements
01 New application to automate the PAPP process
02 Research
03 Documentation
Project lifecycle
01 Gather requirements from the product owner
02 Research
03 Concepts
04 UX Design - hi-fidelity
05 Hand-off and collaboration with developers
Project outcomes
Next Steps
Focus on automating all levels of PPAP’s.
Outcomes
The initial release successfully focused on automating Level 1 PPAPs, which are the least complex. Future iterations will expand automation to cover all PPAP levels, making them immediately available. This improvement aims to streamline the PPAP process for engineers, designers, and TI customer service teams.
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Posted Dec 26, 2024
Automating the Production Part Approval Process
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