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What Manufacturing KPIs Show if a QMS is Performing Effectively?

September 28, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

What Manufacturing KPIs Show if a QMS is Performing Effectively?

Many factories are proud of their ISO 9001/ISO 13485 certificate, but a look at their quality management system (QMS) and manufacturing KPIs reveals serious issues. I wrote before about how some companies get certified with a very poorly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Process Improvement Tagged With: KPIs related to quality, QMS, supplier KPIs

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

How To Manage Chinese Suppliers based on Facts & Data

November 28, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

How To Manage Chinese Suppliers based on Facts & Data

If you buy products from a few Chinese suppliers, do you have a system for managing them? And do you use data for that? In this post, I'll show you how to manage Chinese suppliers using facts and data. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: buyers, chinese suppliers, hands on buyers, managing Chinese suppliers, purchasers, supplier improvement, supplier KPIs, supplier management


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