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Items Tagged with 'manufacturing process improvement'

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The hidden cost of chasing every defect

January 8, 2026

Quality teams feel constant pressure to act when something goes wrong. But reacting to every defect can create its own problems.


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Why Capability Indices Matter More Than Most Teams Realize

December 5, 2025

Capability indices, which include Cp, Cpk, Pp and Ppk, are among the most informative numbers in a quality professional’s toolkit. 


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Martin Buena Franco of Raymond Corporation

Podcast: Consider What Automation Can Do For You

January 11, 2024

Martin Buena-Franco, automation products manager at The Raymond Corporation, dispels the myths that automation is too cost-prohibitive or complicated and explains how automation could benefit your manufacturing process.


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Selecting The Right Solution For Shaft Inspection

Shaft measurement can be accomplished in many different ways, according to the needs of the manufacturing process.
Kurt Clancy
March 3, 2023

In order to determine which type of gage is best for shaft inspection, various aspects of shaft production and features need to be considered.


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SPC’s Journey Through Time

Statistical Process Control’s impact on industry has been enormous.
June 8, 2022

Statistical Process Control’s impact on industry has been enormous. It has branched out beyond the manufacturing realm and can be applied to any process with quantifiable outputs.



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Energy Department Announces New Round of Funding for High Performance Computing for Manufacturing

May 5, 2020

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million in funding to spur the use of U.S. National Laboratory supercomputing resources to strengthen domestic manufacturing.


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PQ Systems

Seven Traits of a Healthy Control Chart

May 1, 2017

Control charts are valuable tools to help you and your team implement fundamental process changes to improve manufacturing processes.


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Key Principles to Achieve Success II

IT DEPENDS ON ONE’S STATE OF MIND.
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Jim L. Smith
October 2, 2015

It would be a relatively safe assumption that most everyone has been envious of the achievements of others.


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Data Collection War Stories

The most unpredictable factor in almost every process? People.
Frank Tappen
November 3, 2014

Over the course of 20 years, I’ve visited hundreds of different factory floors and seen a wide variety of manufacturers implement data collection and statistical process control (SPC) solutions.


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