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Two Preventive Maintenance Examples: Go for More Structure

November 14, 2019

Preventive Maintenance Example: a Structured & Visual Approach

As I wrote before, preventive maintenance helps cut costs and improves quality. That's an extremely important element of good manufacturing and it doesn't get much coverage. Simply put, it extends the lifetime of the equipment, it prevents downtime that prevents production from taking place, and it ensures the equipment is ready to make good products. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: improving cost, improving quality, preventive maintenance, process control plan, process improvement tools, supplier improvement

What Is The Minimum Viable Quality Management System For A New Manufacturer? [8 Steps]

July 29, 2019

What Is a Minimum Viable Quality System for a New Manufacturer?

I have often looked for best practices by looking at the automotive industry's practices when considering what the minimum viable quality management system for a new manufacturer can be. For example: ISO/TS 16949: Great Improvements Over ISO 9001 (Note: that standard is now called IATF 1m6949 and is even more work to apply) Best Practices for Qualifying a Chinese Factory (Note: that is called the PPAP) So, if IATF 16949 is "ISO 9001 ++", let's look at the opposite. What would "ISO … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: enforcing a quality standard, improving quality, new manufacturers, QMS, quality assurance strategy, quality management system

Why Improving Quality Leads to Lower Manufacturing Costs

June 30, 2016

I am tired of repeating certain things over and over when I am in Chinese factories. One of them is this: If you work on improving quality, you will cut your costs at the same time if you follow the right approach. This is nothing new. As Deming wrote: Management in some companies in Japan observed in 1948 and 1949 that improvement of quality begets naturally and inevitably improvement of productivity. So, how can better quality lead to lower costs? What is the "right approach"? I listed 6 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: external failures, improving quality, lowering costs, operator productivity, production equipment efficiency, quality inspections, testing

Is your China factory’s quality standard too low?

October 22, 2012

Is your China factory’s quality standard too low?

Do you work with a factory in China, and wish their quality standard were a bit higher? You are not alone. Here are six pieces of advice you can follow in this case. 1. Say it, and write it, to your factory If you don't communicate your dissatisfaction, nothing will happen. Here is an example of message you can send: "The customers who shop in our stores expect a relatively high quality (higher than average). We don't want them to think, 'Oh, these products are also made in China'. Either … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: China manufacturing, china suppliers, improving quality, quality planning, quality standard, quality standards


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