Lou Ann Lathrop

Lou Ann Lathrop is an ASQ Fellow, past chair for the American Society for Quality- Automotive Division and past ASQ’s Board of Directors. She can be contacted at [email protected].

Industrial workers working on equipment in a factory.

Manufacturing

How Are Your Operations Performing?

You have corporate telling you how you should do the job, the plant manager, engineering manager, supply chain management, and hopefully even the employees.

Lou Ann Lathrop

December 12, 2024

In manufacturing, recognizing and addressing waste while focusing on value-added work is key to improving operations and enhancing product quality.

How is Your Engineering Factory Functioning?

Learn more about engineering process capability.

Lou Ann Lathrop

October 2, 2014

A radical approach to metrics development would be to inventory the engineering process capability.

Software & Analysis

Improve Your Quality Records

Computer technology has done amazing things since the first APQP document was published.

Lou Ann Lathrop

March 1, 2013

Delegating and nodding in agreement is not the way to get things done.

Quality Software & Analysis: APQP Revisited

Lou Ann Lathrop

January 29, 2010

When is the last time you thought about APQP/PPAP? Advanced Product Quality Planning and Control Plan (APQP) was originally printed in 1994 with the second edition in 2008.

Discover how SPC's real-time data collection, monitoring and control capabilities provide the perfect foundation for AI/ML's predictive insights, enabling both immediate process optimization and long-term continuous improvement.

This webinar, featuring a live demonstration, will showcase the evolution of Hexagon’s direct scanning laser trackers: cutting-edge technology that now delivers traditional reflector-tracking accuracy to non-contact, large-part scanning.

Lou Ann Lathrop

ARTICLES

How Are Your Operations Performing?

How is Your Engineering Factory Functioning?

Improve Your Quality Records

Quality Software & Analysis: APQP Revisited

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the manufacturing and metrology industries.

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ARTICLES

Stay in the know with Quality’s comprehensive coverage ofthe manufacturing and metrology industries.

eNewsletter | Website | eMagazine

Stay in the know with Quality’s comprehensive coverage of
the manufacturing and metrology industries.