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Top 5 – Quality Resources that Educate & Inspire

Top 5 – Quality Resources that Educate & Inspire

Quality Control
We’ve given some thought to quality resources we find particularly useful and that both educate and inspire…  Here are our top five: American Society for Quality > Quality Tools ASQ offers comprehensive content relating to various quality tools, conveniently organized by function.  You’ll find everything from histograms to stratification.  Regularly browsing through the tools is […]
Celebrating our engineers…

Celebrating our engineers…

Pro QC
Ralph J. Smith once noted that “engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.” This week is National Engineers Week, and we wanted to take an opportunity to thank all of our engineers for their commitment and dedication to both Pro QC and […]
Learn cause and effect diagrams and more…

Learn cause and effect diagrams and more…

Quality Control
We have found an excellent resource for videos explaining various quality tools.  One of our favorites relates to cause and effect diagrams, but we found the GoogleStorming video quite interesting as well.  There are several other videos relating to quality tools on the Dr. Eugene O’Loughlin YouTube page.  It’s worth checking out! An additional resource for […]
Everyday Quality: Top 5  – #worldqualitymonth

Everyday Quality: Top 5 – #worldqualitymonth

Quality Control
Although we should be focusing on quality all twelve months out of the year, it is nice to have a recognized international dedication to something so important and relevant in today’s global environment. ASQ (American Society for Quality) and others have been spreading the word about November’s World Quality Month for some time now and have […]
Why quality, why now?

Why quality, why now?

Quality Control
Why quality? At the end of the day, successfully incorporating quality into corporate-wide practices will cost you less, not more, and reap some fairly distinguishable benefits, like… A decrease in costs due to less reworking, consequently producing less scrap Social responsibility (they go hand-in-hand) An improvement in productivity due to less time spent on reworking An improvement […]
Supply chain management basics

Supply chain management basics

Supply chain
I recently stumbled on a series of videos produced by Arizona State University and the W.P Carey School of Business’ Department of Supply Chain Management (ASU-WPC-SCM) relating to the basics of SCM.  While basic in nature, the series is well organized and appears to piece together SCM quite well.  As a refresher, I think these […]
Aerosonic’s journey to all things lean…

Aerosonic’s journey to all things lean…

Pro QC
An open invitation recently went out via the ASQ Tampa-St. Petersburg LinkedIn Group regarding an upcoming APICS meeting that would include a plant tour of Aerosonic Corporation.  I grew up with Aerosonic right around the corner, so I couldn’t resist the opportunity to poke around and learn more about they do. It turns out that […]