Getting a Return from Your Quality System

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Companies don’t know what they don’t know. If you really want insights into the operational aspects of a company, you’ve got to collect data and analyze it. That’s when hidden information contained within data will be revealed. Measuring the right things and periodically analyzing the data with the right tools—these are the keys to generating a … Continued

Prioritize Manufacturing Process Control Improvements

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As a quality professional, you’re constantly being asked to fix problems. Instead of reacting to problems, what if you could provide solutions that truly enhance quality control in manufacturing operations? Wouldn’t it be great to quickly and easily compare the performance of each of your parts, lines, processes, and sites—at a glance—and determine where to … Continued

The Top 10 SPC Mistakes: Part 1

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Me: As you think about your organization’s manufacturing quality efforts—what you’ve overcome and what you hope to accomplish in the future—there is something you need to know. You: What? Who? Me? Me: Yes, you. No matter how long you’ve been playing this game, and I know many of you have been playing it as long as I have, … Continued

Fully-Automated Data Collection is a Snap: Data Collection Series #3

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In the first two blogs of our Data Collection series, we looked at manual and semi-automated data collection. Specifically, we discussed how InfinityQS® Enact®—a comprehensive quality intelligence solution—provides a data collection software solution that makes both manual and semi-automated data collection easy and helps users focus on what’s important for them to do their jobs. For this, our third … Continued

Manual Data Collection Made Easy: Data Collection Series #1

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Data collection is an essential part of your daily routine in manufacturing. It’s the engine that drives your quality improvement efforts, whether they are continuous improvement, Six Sigma, Lean, statistical process control (SPC), or anything else. From the data you collect you can discover things about your operation that you might never know from walking … Continued

Operators Play a Critical Role in Your Quality Initiatives: Quality Pro Series #3

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Welcome back to the blog series written specifically for you, the quality professional. In the first blog of this series, we talked about how you can apply your statistical process control (SPC) analysis holistically across your plant and your enterprise to truly enjoy the great benefits that SPC can provide. And in blog two we discussed data collection–specifically, how shop floor … Continued