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...
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 Nov 10, 2021 | Improvement, Business Management |
Deming’s 14 Points In Small Manufacturing – Part 6: Internal Improvement of Employees Throughout the first 10 points Dr. Deming’s focus is on reducing variability with continual improvement processes and how to drive improvement with leadership. He looked...
Last updated Nov 10, 2021 | Quality Management |
Deming’s 14 Points In Small Manufacturing – Part 5: Driving Improvement with People Management Dr. Deming continues his focus on eliminating the separation between management and the shop floor. His focus on leadership and management involvement translates well...
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 |
Continual Improvement Programs: Manufacturers shouldn’t overlook these opportunities Continual improvement is one of the biggest aspects of maintaining efficient manufacturing principles and a regular focus on this can only lead to a positive change within a...
Last updated Nov 10, 2021 | Quality Management, ISO Standard |
Many of our clients were initially cautious in beginning the implementation of a Quality Management System because they thought we were there to change everything. We have found that companies generally have manufacturing and their core processes down to a ‘T’. That’s...
