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...
May 31, 2017 | Business Management, Improvement, Quality Management |
Going Beyond the ISO Certification While an ISO certification is important for your business, implementing the strategies that you need to take your company to the next level can be quite difficult. Just like any business venture, the planning process is not as hard...
May 2, 2017 | Quality Management |
The Juran Trilogy Dr. Joseph Juran left us with many important fundamental methods and tools during his years as one of the leading experts on Quality Management. He emphasized that we must balance the attention we give to the importance of the tools we use, in order...
Apr 17, 2017 | Food Safety, Quality Management |
ISO Standards in the Food Industry Did you know that food fraud exists? The International Organization for Standardization website (iso.org) reports suggest that legit companies that deal with food retailing lose an average of fifteen billion every year as a...
Apr 11, 2017 | Improvement, Quality Management |
Common Mistakes Companies Make When Using the Kaizen Approach It is in the best interest of every operating business to make profits at the end of each business day. As a result, these institutions take advantage of the methodologies and techniques that optimize their...
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...
