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Failure Analysis: An Activity You Hope You Won’t Do!

August 26, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

Failure Analysis: The Activity You Hope You'll Never Need

A product failure analysis is an activity manufacturers hope they'll NEVER need to do. If something has gone wrong enough to warrant doing one, you're probably experiencing product quality or safety issues that are so severe that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: failure analysis, fixing problems, quality failures, reliability failures

Want To Prevent Assembly Problems? Use This Checklist.

May 19, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

Want To Prevent Assembly Problems? Use This Simple Checklist.

Pilots follow a checklist before they fly. Same thing for doctors & nurses. But, for some reason, I see very few Chinese factories follow a checklist that can help them avoid assembly problems before they make a new product (for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Factory Audits Tagged With: assembly, assembly problems, Chinese factory management, common problems with Chinese suppliers, fixing problems, managing Chinese suppliers

An Introduction to Root Cause Analysis (Not Just for Manufacturing)

October 16, 2020 by Renaud Anjoran

An Introduction to Root Cause Analysis (Not Just for Manufacturing)

One of the most frustrating aspects of working with Chinese suppliers is that, for the most part, they don't want to (or cannot) conduct a root cause analysis. Let's say you found a serious issue in one of your productions and you don't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: 8D, fixing problems, process improvement, root cause analysis

Fixing Problems at the Root: ‘Upstream Thinking’

March 28, 2020 by Renaud Anjoran

Fixing Problems at the Root: 'Upstream Thinking'

I have been enjoying the book Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath. It is not really a business book, as it covers many examples outside of business, but it does a great job of arguing in favor addressing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: books, fixing problems, root cause analysis, upstream thinking


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