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Quality: It’s What’s Driving the Global Automotive Industry

Quality: It’s What’s Driving the Global Automotive Industry

Quality Control
A report issued by McKinsey & Company predicting trends up through 2020 in the global automotive industry identifies four challenges that will affect the industry’s growth.  With these four challenges in mind, we offer quality solutions that effectively hedge or otherwise prepare those working within the industry. Complexity and cost pressure Diverging markets Digital demands […]
Supply Chain Management – Webinar Review

Supply Chain Management – Webinar Review

Supply chain
Our Tampa office worked with the local ASQ section and Hillsborough Community College’s Institute for Corporate and Continuing Education and coordinated and instructed a series of webinars that will run through this month.  The webinar scheduled for today discusses Supply Chain Management, which many in our industry recognize is a broad topic. As a brief […]
What are our quality engineers doing on-site during inspections?

What are our quality engineers doing on-site during inspections?

Pro QC
We receive questions relating to quality inspections and the inspection process quite often. One of the most common questions we receive concerns the benefits of inspecting products for quality prior to shipment.  The short answer is that inspections reduce overall quality risks and cost! Another question we receive often relates to what happens during a product […]
Fishbone Example: Rejected Pre-Shipment Inspections

Fishbone Example: Rejected Pre-Shipment Inspections

Product Inspection
We like Ishikawa’s fishbone diagrams also referred to as cause and effect diagrams for good reason.  They’re great for figuring out why something isn’t working. For our clients, it is not uncommon for pre-shipment inspections to uncover trends in failures.  When this happens, we want to know why the problem is occurring so appropriate corrective […]