As we all wait for a return to some version of normalcy, businesses are taking action. In our fourth Quality Magazine Manufacturing Industry online survey, we looked at what manufacturers are doing, worrying about and what they expect in the future.

Many of today’s organizations use management systems to establish policies and procedures for achieving their objectives. Most frequently, organizations have management systems to support quality, health and safety, environment and sustainability, and data privacy.

In manufacturing, the slightest deviation can have significant repercussions. This guide presents solutions, in the form of best practices, that will help quality and production managers solve their productivity issues and implement near-line and in-line automated dimensional inspections.

The perfect part. The Holy Grail of manufacturing today is to produce parts with absolutely no quality defects, zero scrap rate, and no time required for changeover to new product builds when required.

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.

To the consumer, an electric vehicle (EV) may seem to have a lot in common with a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). Designing, manufacturing and assembling EV components is significantly more complex due to stringent demands for reliability, efficiency and safety.

Quality control of products with metal-based materials can be challenging, from working with recycled metals to the rise of additive manufacturing (AM).

If you’re a longtime reader of Quality, you’ll have seen our Leadership 100 ranking. Every year, we take a look at the quality programs at manufacturing sites around the country. 

Finding new talent can be an extremely difficult process for any organization, in any industry.

InfinityQS^® recently won the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for Product Leadership, bestowed specifically for SPC-based quality solutions. InfinityQS received the honor for its Enact^® software platform.