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Articles Tagged with ''quality system''

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Prevention is the Key to Reduced Quality Costs

Customer-facing processes must be designed to prevent errors and minimize cost of failure.
Paul Keller
November 8, 2019

Quality professionals see many costs of quality firsthand. These include our salaries and benefits, the equipment used to measure and analyze quality outcomes, and the waste generated by these processes when they fail to meet requirements.


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Back to the Basics: Inspection and Certification

QUALITY MEASUREMENT IS THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE QUALITY SYSTEM.
Dale Wells
December 1, 2015

Several years ago I was inspecting some parts on a small surface plate in the quality lab. Gathered around a larger surface plate a few feet away was an assortment of engineers, supervisors, leads persons, and probably an inspector or two.


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Future Proof: Why the Cloud is Your Key to Consistent, Enduring Quality Control.

July 13, 2015

Inside Future Proof, you’ll learn how to avoid the ticking time bomb hidden in many manufacturer’s quality systems.


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Can Quality Guarantee Success?

A GOOD QUALITY PROGRAM IS NOT THE ONLY GUARANTOR OF SUCCESS.
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Jim L. Smith
May 1, 2015

Do companies fail because of a lack of a robust quality system? During a recent quality discussion, a quality engineer asked a group of quality professionals if anyone knew of companies who had gone out of business due to quality problems.


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North Star Imaging, Inc. Is Now ISO 9001 Certified

September 3, 2013
North Star Imaging, Inc. is excited to announce that they are now ISO 9001:2008 certified. In the last 12 months, NSI has implemented a significant amount of changes and improvements to their Quality System.
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Software & Analysis

Industrial Data Collection Advances

Today’s industrial data collection requires a flexible, modular approach.
Paul Oxfeldt Frank Skog
June 7, 2013

The demands on industrial data collection systems have continued to grow year over year for advances in speed, labor cost reduction, error proofing, maintainability, flexibility, accuracy, training efficiency, and exception reporting.


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From the Editor

Chaos Theory

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Darryl Seland
December 5, 2012

Keeping things under control.


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Face of Quality: Pride in Workmanship

October 1, 2012

A good quality system needs people who really care. 


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