The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, which are taking place right now, offer a perfect opportunity to look at the basic principles for the success of top athletes and apply them to operational excellence initiatives in your company.Professional athletes practice repeatedly, over many years, to improve their performance and ultimately prevail over their competitors. Operational … [Read more...] about Lessons from the Winter Olympics that can be applied to operational excellence
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REASONS WHY MANUFACTURERS NEED TO INVEST IN QMS
Quality is a strategy that must be pervasive throughout every department and every level of the organization. In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something that aims at satisfying customer expectations.What is Quality for Manufacturing?manufacturing quality is conformance to specifications. … [Read more...] about REASONS WHY MANUFACTURERS NEED TO INVEST IN QMS
Quality Conversations: Organizational Excellence Specialists
What are excellence models, and how can organizations use them to drive quality and boost performance? Dawn Ringrose, Principal of Organizational Excellence Specialists, is an expert on excellence models—and a big believer in their benefits. Since 1984, Dawn has been helping organizations across the public, private, and non-profit sectors fine-tune their culture and operations … [Read more...] about Quality Conversations: Organizational Excellence Specialists
What is a Business Process Improvement Methodology?
Business process improvement is a management practice that helps leaders leverage several tools and techniques to analyze their processes and uncover areas where improvement in accuracy, quality, and efficiency can be achieved. The leaders then work with process operators to redesign those processes to improve productivity and gain the expected improvements. Business process … [Read more...] about What is a Business Process Improvement Methodology?
Three Steps to Reduce Complexity in Product Configurations
As customer demands for more customization and choice increase, the complexity of products and associated product design, manufacturing, and sales processes also increase. Product life cycles are also getting shorter, requiring a constant flow of new products with high-value features and capabilities.This challenges product design and engineering processes to become leaner, … [Read more...] about Three Steps to Reduce Complexity in Product Configurations
Use a Corrective Action Plan after a Failed Inspect
So, the inspector sent you their report, and you see quality issue(s) that you cannot accept in some of your products. It’s classified as a failed inspection, and you tell the supplier about the issues. This is where a corrective action plan will be helpful to find and eliminate the cause/s of the issues…Quality issues have been found. What next..?You want this batch to be … [Read more...] about Use a Corrective Action Plan after a Failed Inspect
Five Whys Analysis: How to Use It to Improve Business Performance
The five whys method is a simple way to identify root causes. It involves asking "why" five times. This allows you to discover what's causing problems and why they exist.5 Whys: The Ultimate Root Cause Analysis ToolThe 5 Why process is one of the most powerful tools for problem-solving and improving quality. It works by asking "why" five times, which forces people to consider … [Read more...] about Five Whys Analysis: How to Use It to Improve Business Performance
7 Reasons Why Ignoring Factory Audits Will Hurt Your Business
If you start working with a new supplier that you haven’t visited or audited on-site, do you feel safe about your decision?I have talked to many people in that situation, and they usually haven’t fully realized what they might be missing. So, that’s what I am going to cover in this article.(I am discussing only audits of a factory’s quality system and processes, in the context … [Read more...] about 7 Reasons Why Ignoring Factory Audits Will Hurt Your Business