If you need spares for your business then you might tend to just rely on the one supplier. If you have a good relationship with them, trust them and get a good price and great value for money, then it is not surprising that you are sticking with them. However, many businesses are not that
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What Can Six Sigma Teach Us About the Quality Movement
When people are just getting started with quality management, they usually come across Six Sigma. This is a pretty old business strategy that goes all the way back to 1986 at Motorola. The company needed to figure out how to handle consistent quality control across the board, as well as how to implement new projects
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Want to Manage Costs – It’s Time to Revisit Priority Management
Priorities. Every company has them, no matter what industry they’re in. When it comes to proper quality management, cost management has to be part of the equation. Far too many companies have bold ideas of what they should do next, but they don’t like to spend a lot of time on the numbers. Newer companies
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Managing Projects from a Quality-Oriented framework
Project management is one of those topics that have a wide variety of opinions on how to do it right. But when we’re talking about project management, it is always with a Quality-oriented focus on improvement. Simply put, we’re trying to answer the question: is the project on track? Quality processes should be in place
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Do Employees play a role in Quality Management?
The question comes up a lot when it comes to talking about quality management processes, but we figured that we would answer it the best we could here: just what role do employees have in quality management? After all, can’t we just outsource the role of employees to technology? Not quite. If anything, if employees
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How Does Nondestructive Testing Play a Role in Quality
If you want to learn more about quality control with respect to an organization, chances are good that you’ll run across the subject of nondestructive testing, or NDT. It sounds like NDT is a very complicated process, but that’s not the case at all. In fact, as time passes you’ll find that NDT has a
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How Calibration Affects Quality Management
Total quality management is a hotly debated topic these days. When it comes to manufacturing, quality has to be present in every facet of the operation. You can’t leave anything to chance due to the sheer amount of money involved. Manufacturing is a costly business where errors can pile up and slow down the entire
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Can Cloud Computing Impact Quality Control
Embrace the cloud. Don’t embrace the cloud. There are so many different opinions on adopting cloud technologies that it can be hard to keep everything together. If you’re trying to make decisions for your organization or contribute to the decision making process, it’s about time that you looked a little closer at how cloud computing
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Can Automation Ensure Compliance with Quality Management Standards
As the industry gears up to fully embrace ISO 9001:2015, multiple questions still hang in the air. Anytime people talk about quality management systems or the subject of TQM in general, one thing is bound to pop up: automation. Technology was supposed to save us from the worst of management, freeing us from the drudgery
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Why is ISO 9001 So Important
Quality management is a topic that is more layered than meets the eye. There are a wide number of different regulations, policies, and best practices that are integral to the entire industry, as well as to the manufacturing process at large. Simply put, ISO 9001 is just the quality management system standard. Within the requirements,
