8 Essential Tools For Your Quality Toolkit

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The Quality Toolkit will help you identify an approach that optimizes Continuous Improvement initiatives. The toolkit contains insight gained over 100 years of combined experience from former executives, quality directors, industrial statisticians and engineers who understand the challenges of getting product out the door on-time without cutting corners. The free guide will help you simplify … Continued

A Practical Guide to Selecting the Right Control Chart

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Today, control charts are a key tool for quality control and figure prominently in lean manufacturing and Six Sigma efforts. Choosing the wrong type of control chart may result in “false positives” because the chart may not be sensitive enough for your process. Or there may be ways to analyze parts and processes you thought … Continued

Handling Material Problems as they Arise

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Organizing a manufacturer’s internal logistics and materials handling information can be a daunting task. Many companies store this detailed information within one or multiple spreadsheets or Access databases. The challenge with this approach is that part data is often obsolete, and it is difficult for multiple users to access simultaneously. In addition, the data is … Continued

Techniques for the Evaluation, Reduction, and Elimination of Excess Material Flow within Industrial Facilities

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The flow of material represents 2, and practically even 3, of the 7 wastes as defined by LEAN practitioners. As such, the methods for evaluating, reducing, and eliminating excess material handling are fundamental to any LEAN improvement initiative. The 7 wastes defined by LEAN practitioners include the following: 1. Overproduction 2. Waiting (reduced by eliminating … Continued

Manufacturing Process Management (MPM)

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Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) represents a huge step in the quest to link product design with production electronically, in order to improve information quality and reduce time-to-market. Major strides have been made in recent years with the deployment of commercial applications capable of integrating the complicated and configurable BOM (Bill of Material) with that of … Continued