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How To Push Key Suppliers To Reduce Defects? [Podcast]

August 27, 2021 by Adrian Leighton

How To Push Key Suppliers To Reduce Defects? [Podcast]

In this episode… Renaud is joined by manufacturing industry experts Clive Greenwood and Max Phythian to discuss what it takes to drive your key suppliers to cut out defects. You'll hear their opinions on the Cost Of Quality, the value of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: assessing suppliers, common problems with Chinese suppliers, managing suppliers, manufacturing defects, reducing defects, supplier development, supplier development program, supplier evaluation, supplier improvement, supplier KPIs

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

The 5 Levels of Quality Standards: From Worst to Best Practices

May 4, 2020 by Renaud Anjoran

The 5 Levels of Quality Standards: From Worst to Best Practices

Setting clear quality standards for each type of product you purchase in Asia is a basic need. Like in "to keep living, breathing is a basic need". Despite this, very few companies that have production in China or Vietnam take the time … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: defects, enforcing a quality standard, golden sample, manufacturing defects, quality standard, quality standards, reducing defects, samples

Avoiding 9 Plastic Injection Molding Defects: Key Preventive Measures

May 9, 2018 by Renaud Anjoran

Avoiding 9 Plastic Injection Molding Defects: Key Preventive Measures

Plastic injection molding is one of the most common production processes here in China. And most Chinese manufacturers are not very good at setting up and maintaining their presses and their molds and this leads to plastic injection molding … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: plastic injection molding, reducing defects

How a Chinese factory can REALLY improve its quality

April 3, 2013 by Renaud Anjoran

Increasing a factory's quality level

Auditing a factory's quality system, and helping them patch the main holes found by the auditor, is helpful. But is it enough? I used to think so. A good quality management system is supposed to stop defects before it is too late. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: process improvements, quality assurance, reducing defects


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