Quality 4.0 integrates the features from Industry 4.0 with traditional quality tools to achieve operational excellence, improved overall performance, and innovation. Quality 4.0 combines people, processes, and technologies to accomplish these goals, along with complete digitalization of quality management systems theory. 

Navin Dedhia has been a pillar of the quality community since the 1960s, speaking and working on five different continents about the importance of quality.

The American Society for Quality (ASQ), along with many other organizations, define statistical process control (SPC) as the use of statistical techniques to control a process or production method.

Our natural human tendency is: If it ain’t broke, why fix it!

ASQ has been carefully designing membership benefits to help the growing needs of quality professionals. These benefits include exclusive access to quality knowledge, solutions and resources to solve challenges, and skill development to advance one’s career.

My introduction to quality commenced at a manufacturing plant where I started at an entry-level product packaging position. 

After learning something truly exciting, there is something extraordinarily satisfying in sharing it with someone else. Children do this all the time. They take the new information directly to an adult—usually a parent or caregiver—and the words pour out of their mouths, torrents of energy and pride.

Mastering quality requires a multi-pronged approach to your manufacturing line. Perhaps this means setting better notifications for problems, using spaghetti diagrams or just monitoring workflow more closely. 

A professional certification is a formal recognition that an individual has demonstrated a proficiency within, and comprehension of, a specified body of knowledge (BoK).

How is your compliance policy? Is it an all-consuming mission at your organization?