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Fixing Product Quality Issues: MFG vs. Product Design Causes

July 12, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

Fixing Product Quality Issues: MFG vs. Product Design Causes

About two or three times a month, a client tells us about serious issues they have experienced with a certain product, and they ask if we can help fix those product quality issues. In some cases, it is relatively quick and easy. In others, … [Read more...]

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

Your Cost of Poor Quality Is Higher Than You Think

September 13, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

Your Cost of Poor Quality Is Higher Than You Think

When one studies the literature around the Cost of Quality, the traditional breakdown of the costs is presented as follows: Source: ASQ TR2:2018. ISO 10014 and ASQ TR 2, two standards that provide guidelines (in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: cost of poor quality, improving cost, lowering costs, product cost, product quality, solving quality issues

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

Solving a Quality Problem Seldom Necessitates High-Tech Engineering

October 11, 2016 by Renaud Anjoran

In many companies, and in particular in many Chinese companies, the response to problems is often "let's invest in technology". Unfortunately, spending a lot of resources on engineering is seldom the best solution. I just read a great … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: mistake-proofing, poka yoke, product quality, qa, QC, solving quality issues

China: forecasting and preventing production problems

July 20, 2010 by Renaud Anjoran

Most importers are pretty bad when it comes to assessing the probability of quality problems with a given supplier. There are two reasons for this. The first one is that they might not know the factories that work for them. The solution … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: probability of quality issues, QC problems, quality issues, solving quality issues


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