Quality managers looking to find real insights from pages upon pages of raw quality data might not be successful. But managers with Statistical Process Control (SPC) software will have a leg up.

Manufacturers must ask a lot of their quality data collection systems. Ideally, these systems should not only capture quality data while a product or service is manufactured, assembled and installed, but they should also aid in pre-production preparation. 

In order to remain competitive in today’s global economy, manufacturing companies are working to improve efficiency, productivity and quality. To do so, they must proactively prevent defects instead of corrective action. 

Finding old records, organizing years of data, and working on short timelines contribute to stressful audits. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With the right preparation, you can have simple, worry-free audits.  

Cpk and Ppk metrics only tell part of the story. Learn how stream grading can fill in the gaps to help improve performance in a manufacturing environment.

The L.S. Starrett Co. announced the introduction of DataSure® 4.0, an advanced wireless data collection system for acquiring precision measurement data. With unprecedented range and data security, multiple gateways, compact size and high speed, Starrett, a forerunner in the development of data collection solutions for quality control manufacturing applications, claims the system has taken data acquisition to a new level.

Visibility across all operations is essential to enable the flexibility and agility manufacturers need to be resilient to market disruptions.

Inspection reports are an invaluable part of the manufacturing process in many industries, and first article inspections are especially common in aerospace, defense, automotive and medical devices. In other words, if high quality is essential, these reports often are too.