A team of specialized agents across your entire product lifecycle
From product planning and NPI to sourcing, commercialization, and quality, Cogence agents work alongside your cross-functional teams — automating the rigorous, document-heavy work so you build better products faster.
Product Planning
Translate customer needs into validated, de-risked product requirements before a single dollar is committed to tooling.
Quality Function Deployment
Builds and maintains the House of Quality — mapping the voice of the customer to engineering characteristics, scoring relationships, and surfacing trade-offs and conflicts automatically.
Design FMEA
Drafts and updates design failure mode analyses — proposing failure modes, effects, and causes, calculating RPN / Action Priority, and recommending controls drawn from prior programs.
Risk Assessment & Analysis
Identifies, scores, and prioritizes program risks across technical, schedule, and supply dimensions — maintaining a living risk register with mitigation owners and status.
New Product Introduction
Orchestrate disciplined, phase-gated launches that keep cross-functional teams aligned and on schedule.
APQP Assistant
Guides teams through all five APQP phases, assembling required deliverables and the control-plan thread so every prerequisite is complete before the next phase begins.
Phase-gate Agent
Validates gate-readiness against entry/exit criteria, flags incomplete deliverables and open risks, and assembles the review package for go / no-go decisions.
NPI Process Orchestration
Coordinates tasks, owners, and dependencies across functions — routing approvals, tracking the critical path, and escalating bottlenecks before they delay launch.
Engineering Change Management
Move changes from request to implementation with full traceability, impact analysis, and disciplined approvals.
ECR Preparation
Drafts complete Engineering Change Requests — capturing the problem, justification, affected items, and a first-pass cost and risk view for reviewers.
ECO Analysis
Performs where-used and BOM impact analysis, assesses effect on inventory, suppliers, documentation, and compliance, and recommends the optimal effectivity strategy.
ECO Implementation
Drives change execution to closure — updating affected records, coordinating disposition of in-process material, and verifying every implementation task is complete.
Product End-of-Life Management
Plans and executes product retirement — last-time-buy timing, service and spares strategy, customer notifications, and orderly documentation phase-out.
Component Engineering
Keep your component library accurate, qualified, and resilient to obsolescence and supplier change.
Manufacturer Part Management
Maintains manufacturer and approved-vendor part relationships, normalizes attributes and datasheets, and keeps approved-manufacturer lists current and clean.
New Component Request & Qualification
Screens new-part requests for fit, compliance, and lifecycle risk, then guides the qualification workflow through to an approved, fully-attributed library entry.
Product Change Notice (PCN) Analysis
Ingests supplier PCNs, identifies affected assemblies and programs, classifies impact and required action, and routes notifications with recommended responses.
Component EOL Management
Monitors obsolescence signals, forecasts at-risk components, and recommends last-time-buy quantities, alternates, or redesign actions ahead of disruption.
NPI Sourcing & Supplier Development
Qualify, develop, and audit a capable supply base — and prove production readiness before ramp.
New Supplier Qualification & Selection
Runs structured supplier assessments and RFQ scoring across capability, quality, capacity, and risk to recommend the best-fit source with a documented rationale.
Supplier Quality Engineering
Manages supplier quality day to day — scorecards, deviations, containment, corrective actions, and continuous-improvement plans against agreed targets.
Product & Process Audits
Plans and conducts layered product and process audits, captures findings against requirements, and tracks corrective actions through verified closure.
PPAP
Assembles and validates the Production Part Approval Process package — verifying all required elements are complete and consistent before submission and sign-off.
Commercialization
Take the product to market cleanly — aligned go-to-market, validated readiness, and accurate master data.
GTM Process
Coordinates the go-to-market plan across product, sales, and operations — sequencing launch activities, owners, and dependencies into a single tracked timeline.
Readiness Assessment
Evaluates launch readiness across manufacturing, supply, quality, and commercial functions, scoring each against criteria and flagging gaps before release.
Master Data Setup
Creates and validates item, BOM, routing, and costing master data across systems — checking completeness and consistency so order-to-cash works from day one.
Verification & Validation
Prove the design meets requirements with a complete, traceable verification record.
Design Verification Plan & Report
Builds the DVP&R from requirements — defining tests, acceptance criteria, and sample sizes, then capturing results with full requirement-to-test traceability.
Quality Engineering
Detect, diagnose, and eliminate quality issues with disciplined problem-solving and measurement integrity.
Quality Deployment
Cascades quality requirements and characteristics from design intent into inspection, control, and acceptance criteria across the production process.
Failure Reporting & Corrective Action (FRACAS)
Captures failures, manages the closed-loop FRACAS workflow, links recurring modes, and verifies corrective actions are effective and sustained.
Root Cause Analysis
Structures investigations with 5-Why and fishbone methods, weighs evidence against hypotheses, and pinpoints true root causes — not just symptoms.
A3 Report
Drafts and maintains A3 problem-solving reports end to end — background, current state, target, analysis, countermeasures, and follow-up on a single page.
Calibration Processes
Manages calibration schedules, intervals, and records for measurement equipment, flagging due and out-of-tolerance instruments before they affect quality.
Measurement Systems Analysis
Plans and evaluates Gage R&R and bias/linearity studies, interprets results against acceptance thresholds, and recommends actions to ensure trustworthy data.
Manufacturing Engineering
Engineer robust, controlled processes that deliver capable, repeatable production output.
Process FMEA
Develops and maintains process failure mode analyses — linking process steps to potential failures, controls, and Action Priority, synchronized with the control plan.
Process Control Plan
Generates control plans tied to PFMEA outputs — defining characteristics, methods, frequencies, and reaction plans for prototype, pre-launch, and production.
Product & Process Characteristics
Identifies and classifies special, critical, and key characteristics, maintaining the linkage from design through PFMEA, control plan, and inspection.
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