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6 Tips To Combat Common Recurring Quality Issues From Your Supplier

February 24, 2023 by Renaud Anjoran

6 Tips To Combat Common Recurring Quality Issues From Your Supplier

What happens if your supplier keeps manufacturing products with various defects, even though you have a quality standard that outlines your expectations? This tends to happen for the same reasons, so here are 6 tips to help you avoid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: AQL, design defects, manufacturing defects, product quality

How A DFQ Review Designs Quality INTO Your Product At An Early Stage [Podcast]

March 13, 2021 by Adrian Leighton

How A DFQ Review Designs Quality INTO Your Product At An Early Stage [Podcast]

What if you could reduce the chances of quality problems long before your product goes into production? A DFQ review can help you achieve this! What is DFQ? Design For Quality is where we review a number of factors that affect quality at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Product Development Tagged With: design defects, design for quality, DFQ, improving product design, mature product designs, product design, product quality, quality improvement

Should You Avoid the Words “Defects” and “Defectives”?

October 20, 2020 by Renaud Anjoran

Should You Avoid the Words "Defects" and "Defectives"?

Someone on Linkedin wrote about the distinction between these 2 terms: Defect Defective I actually see a lot of confusion around them.   What does the standard say? ISO 2859-1 includes these definitions: Defect: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: defect list, Defect sorting, defectives, defects, design defects, manufacturing defects, quality issues, reducing defects, solving quality issues

Why Design Defects Are Behind Many Quality/Safety Issues

July 15, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

Why Design Defects Are Behind Many Quality/Safety Issues

There is a tendency for inexperienced importers to blame their suppliers for all quality and safety issues that come up. However, in the situation where the buyer works with an OEM or a contract manufacturer, they share some (and usually … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: contract manufacturer, contract manufacturers, design defects, HALT, HASS, manufacturing defects, OEM, process control


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