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Product Inspection Strategy

Product Inspection

A frequent question account managers receive is how to employ an inspection strategy to identify issues early and continue to ensure that product meets specifications. Most agree that the tangible and intangible costs associated with poor quality support a preemptive strategy. The answer isn’t necessarily a simple one due to the variances involved in product-specific […]

Quality tools beyond Pareto, PDCA and root cause analysis…

Quality Control

If asked what your favorite quality tools are, you’d likely tell me Pareto, flowcharts, PDCA or root cause analysis. I know this because I’ve recently reached out via Pro QC’s social network to get some insight. It seems these tools are also the very same ones I’m most often working with… And, I know there’s more […]

Spend $5… Get Quality Improvement Made Simple & Fast

Quality Control

I finally had an opportunity to unpack all of the books I scored from the Quality Press booth at the World Conference on Quality & Improvement this past week. I’m hoping to include a master list of recommendations in the next newsletter but couldn’t resist posting something here about a little gem I found. For […]

What is the future of quality?

Quality Control

As an Influential Voice for the American Society for Quality, I recently posted a response to Paul Borawski’s vlog regarding the ASQ Futures Study on my personal site. However, I also evaluated the study’s identified forces from more of a Pro QC centered perspective. Here’s what I discovered… The future of quality is obviously something of […]

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