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For decades, manufacturers have invested heavily in lean tools, automation and continuous improvement systems.

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Automotive production is at an inflection point. For decades, automakers relied on traditional industrial robots to deliver the speed, durability and throughput required for mass production. Those large, stationary machines defined efficiency, but often at the expense of flexibility.

The relentless pursuit of quality and reliability is at the core of all manufacturing operations. As control systems become more complex and interconnected, new challenges and opportunities emerge for quality professionals.

Testing and inspection procedures have always formed a core part of quality management. However, the framework conditions have changed significantly. 

Well-executed Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is a cornerstone of most successful product launches across a wide spectrum of manufacturing companies today. 

To stay profitable as a manufacturer, you have to run a tight ship. I’ve been lucky enough to visit with the owners and key people at thousands of our manufacturers all over the world.

Victor Taylor is the vice president of manufacturing at the award-winning Nissan Canton vehicle assembly plant with more than 20 years of engineering and manufacturing expertise. 

Central to the system’s success was Theia’s ML610M 2/3″ format varifocal lens, designed for a 1.55 µm pixel size to resolve detail up to 300 line pairs per millimeter contrast.

Listen to the latest podcast with Sai Ranjith, a quality engineer with over eight years of experience in the medical device industry. He focuses on regulatory compliance and risk management. He has a Six Sigma green belt and is an ISO 13485:2016 Medical Device Auditor. He also serves as program chair for the Granite State Chapter of ASQ.