Does it seem like continuous improvement initiatives keep moving to the bottom of your task list? Here’s one way to get the big picture back on your radar.

To drive change in any business process you must first assess your existing program. Is it inclusive? Is the program delivering results? How can it be improved and how can success be measured?

Our industry is fraught with tales of quality audits from hell and other less than desirable places, usually the result of standards written by folks who know a little but expand it to encompass a lot.

Increasingly, manufacturers are looking at the potential of digital transformation to improve their competitiveness. The benefits in quality management are particularly compelling—offering the ability to optimize product quality and customers’ experiences by streamlining audits and reporting, improving batch and process manufacturing workflows, and synchronizing production centers to improve perfect order performance.

Returning often to the fundamentals is essential to a host of endeavors, from athletics to arithmetic to business. Basketball players shoot endless free throws, mathematicians remain grounded in the logic and laws of mathematics, and businesses keep vigilant focus on their P&Ls.

Teledyne DALSA announced its Xtium™2-CXP series of high-performance frame grabbers. The new series transfers image data to the host memory at maximum acquisition rates with zero CPU utilization, allowing host applications to operate at maximum efficiency.

Are you using SPC to meet mandated quality management requirements? Collecting data for SPC is so much more than self-preservation. It’s your gateway to understanding what’s really happening on your shop floor.

What’s the true value of the quality-related data that is available across your enterprise? Reduce waste, streamline audits, optimize processes, impress customers, and improve competitive strategies—all by re-imagining the role of quality in your business.

Manufacturing quality managers collect quality data from every part of their line, at every step in their process. But the ability to see that data and use it—across the entire enterprise—is what will make or break a quality management program.

Experienced operators elevate modern manufacturing to an art. Real-time data enhances their expertise—and enables you to reproduce their successes.