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Leadership’s Five Key Practices

All quality professionals must practice leadership skills to add value.
QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
October 1, 2016

Last month’s column focused on statisticians and their need to transition to leaders. In order to do so, one must understand the difference between managing work/projects and leading others.


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Medical Devices

Medical Devices

ISO 13485 places new emphasis on risk management.
Edward McMenamin
October 1, 2016

New changes to ISO 13485, published this spring as EN ISO 13485:2016, mean U.S. medical device companies that sell in Europe will need to integrate risk-based approaches throughout their quality management systems. The emphasis on risk management is the biggest of several changes in the third version  of ISO 13485.


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reshoring companies

Companies Reshore to Achieve Higher Quality

A dramatically increased rate of reshoring will require a much larger and better trained skilled workforce and more automation.
Harry Moser
Harry Moser Millar Kelley
October 1, 2016

Quality is the most common offshore problem cited by companies who have reshored to the U.S. As reshoring in U.S. manufacturing continues to grow, total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis remains a key, underutilized tool that companies can use to make the best sourcing decisions. 


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INDUSTRY HEADLINE

A2LA Appoints Lonnie Spires as CEO

September 16, 2016

Spires succeeds Peter Unger, who served as A2LA’s president and CEO for 20 years and continues to support the association in his position as president emeritus.


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Playing to Our Strengths

Often ignored in favor of improving weaknesses.
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Darryl Seland
September 1, 2016

There’s a popular and effective exercise, taught in business schools everywhere, called a SWOT analysis. The concept is to analyze the entirety of a company, organization, or institution by listing its Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.


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A perfect quality inspector

Quality inspectors are the essence of any organization.
September 1, 2016

In one of its simplest definitions, quality represents the state of conformance to requirements. To be able to determine this conformance, we need to compare the product or service to established standard. 


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Face of Quality

Statisticians Must Transform

Like other quality professionals, statisticians must add value
QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
September 1, 2016

I had a discussion recently with someone who, for three decades, had been performing a statistical function at a large manufacturing company. He couldn’t understand why, in spite of excellent job performance reviews, his company had furloughed him indefinitely.


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