Use Acceptance Sampling to Improve Manufacturing Process and Product Quality

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How do manufacturing organizations confirm that supplier products comply with critical quality standards? For the most part, manufacturers rely on inspectors to check incoming materials. Those results are compared with the company’s own quality standards and supplier-generated documents such as Certificates of Analysis (COAs). Based on results, inspectors either accept or reject a shipment. However, most … Continued

The Benefits of Statistical Process Control: Part One

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No matter what line of business you are in—from retail to hospitality to technology to finance—it’s imperative to prevent business problems before they occur. That can mean something as simple as avoiding the loss of one of your customers to poor customer service or as critical as preventing a botched manufacturing job on one of … Continued

Quality Craft Brews to Problems with Pass Fail Testing

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The craft brewing industry is booming, offering tremendous opportunity for brewers whose distinctive products are in demand by discerning beer fans. But growth brings a host of challenges, and one of the biggest is how to ensure consistency and quality in the products your customers have grown to love. Pass/Fail quality testing is the de … Continued

5 Ways to Bring Your Process Data Up to Speed

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Gathering quality data is essential for product and process improvement in any manufacturing operation. Real-time statistical process control (SPC) data is essential to enable operators to catch defective product or inefficient processes as quickly as possible and to help quality engineers pinpoint and correct the causes of disruptive quality variances. But today’s manufacturing lines can … Continued

The Value of Your Quality Data

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Video Transcription: Every quality pro knows the drill: You have too much to do and not enough time.  Getting stuck in “firefighting mode” is easy when you’re constantly bombarded with — process emergencies, audits, customer data demands, and more. Why is it so hard to get ahead? After all, you collect quality and process data. … Continued

Optimize Every Process With Enact

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Video Transcription: Your goal is to drive consistent quality across your manufacturing operations. But your processes and product quality likely vary across shifts, lines, or sites. If only you could find a reliable way to ensure consistent quality across all manufacturing lines and facilities. With InfinityQS SPC quality intelligence solutions, you can. Be alerted before … Continued

Enact Easy to Try Buy and Implement

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Video Transcription: You know you need a real-time SPC solution. But you’re facing a variety of challenges: Buy-in from Management Support from IT for implementation The capital outlay for both software and hardware A steep learning curve and The time to configure and maintain a new system It all adds up to a seemingly insurmountable … Continued