Last updated Nov 15, 2021 | Manufacturing, Business Management |
Threatening Storms of Export Compliance Program Violations for ITAR and EAR An ITAR/Export Compliance Program is a set of procedures that help an organization operate their export activities in accordance with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and...
Last updated Jan 18, 2018 | Quality Management, Manufacturing |
Preventive Maintenance Program Pitfalls Preventive Maintenance Programs, or PMPs are initiatives meant to find problems before they occur, thus furthering efficiency and profits within the company. However, when not designed or managed correctly, PMPs can actually...
Last updated Jan 18, 2018 | Quality Management, Business Management, Manufacturing |
How Companies Can Make Their Nonconformance Data Useful Nonconformance is an unexpected event that occurs in the manufacturing process that deviates from the set standards or requirements. In most cases, these are problems that we unanticipated to arise along the way,...
Last updated Jun 8, 2017 | ISO Standard, Business Management, Improvement, Manufacturing, PPAP, Quality Management |
Engineering Change Order Risks So you’ve got a new customer and they are sending some work your direction from the previous vendor. You make the parts to print, do the first article inspection or PPAP and its perfect. However, the customer rejects that parts because...
Last updated Apr 3, 2017 | Food Safety, Manufacturing, Quality Management |
Why a Food Safety Management System Is Important A foodborne illness is a disease transmitted by food to people. An illness is considered an outbreak when two or more people report the same symptoms after eating the same food, an investigation is conducted by...
Last updated Nov 10, 2021 | Manufacturing, Improvement, Quality Management |
Deming’s 14 Points In Small Manufacturing – Part 7: Focus on Continual Improvement and Leadership Deming has provided a framework for intuitional training and leadership to develop teams that are focused on continual improvement and reducing variability. He...
Last updated Nov 10, 2021 | Manufacturing, Improvement |
Deming’s 14 Points in Small Manufacturing – Part 4: A Team Approach To Productivity Our previous article (Part 3) of our series regarding two of W. Edwards Deming’s famous 14 Points of Management and Quality was directed at creating pride in workmanship standards and...
Last updated Nov 10, 2021 | Improvement, Manufacturing |
Deming’s 14 Points in Small Manufacturing – Part 3: Continual Improvement & Employees Our previous post regarding the second two of W. Edwards Deming’s famous 14 points of Management and Quality was directed at eliminating mass inspection with continual...
Last updated Nov 10, 2021 | Improvement, Manufacturing |
Deming’s 14 Points in Small Manufacturing – Part 2: Inspection and Process Improvement Our previous post regarding the first two of W. Edwards Deming’s famous 14 points of Management and Quality was directed at management maintaining a consistency of purpose,...
