Articles Tagged with ''continuous improvement''

The question of where to focus to maximize effectiveness is a conundrum.

For improvement to occur, problems must be solved. Errors must be fixed. Systems must be more efficient.

Choosing the best measuring device for any application requires you to answer some basic questions to sort out your options before looking at the hardware. 

In manufacturing, quality is frequently synonymous with product quality. Continuous improvement projects and initiatives tend to aim to reduce waste and defects.

Problem solving is finding the root cause of a problem and preventing it from ever happening again.

In their haste to improve bottom-line performance, companies often forget to integrate two important planning activities—strategic and quality planning.

During the oil embargo, as drivers lined up at gas stations, the market for small cars took off.

Quality cops and the quality patrol. These are just two of the many names quality managers and technicians have been called over the past 70-plus years.

In “Only the Paranoid Survive,” Andrew Grove, the former CEO of Intel, discusses “strategic inflection points”—times when an industry’s fundamentals change significantly. Many businesses do not survive them.