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Continuous Improvement: Defining Zero Defects in Your Manufacturing Environment

If you’re going to talk about zero defects, you must put the conversation into context.
January 11, 2021
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The pursuit of zero defects revolves around a defined mindset. You set up a direction to focus your employees. And when everyone is thinking about it and striving to make it happen, that focus enables breakthrough improvements to happen.


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"Paper or Plastic?"

How to make binary decisions out of complex problems.
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Ian R Lazarus
January 6, 2021
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Back in the day when attending live, face-to-face conferences was “a thing,” I always looked forward to the breaks when I could join my peers around that long, huge table put out by the hotel offering a variety of Danishes, fruit, and of course, coffee.


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The High Cost of Zero

More than you bargained for.
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Hill Cox
January 6, 2021
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At first glance, you might think I’m losing it with the title of this month’s rant. After all, who would pay anything for ‘zero’ or nothing? It turns out a lot of people try to get ‘nothing’ or ‘zero’ and end up with more than they bargained for at a very high cost to get there.


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Face of Quality

Successful Quality Professionals Go Beyond Normal

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Jim L. Smith
September 30, 2020
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If anyone has been in quality for some time, they have probably encountered managers who have painful connections to quality. It is likely that some managers would describe their experience as overwhelmingly negative. Some of these people extend these feeling into anything having to do with quality.


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It’s Time to Tackle Quality

Mastering quality takes work but can yield significant results.
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Michelle Bangert
September 30, 2020
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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. 


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Face of Quality

Overcoming Resistance

Failed change results in missed opportunities
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Jim L. Smith
September 1, 2020
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In a recent gathering of quality professionals, the subject of unsuccessful change implementation surfaced. Most people understand change is necessary for survival, but in this era it is happening at an unprecedented, almost vertical rate. The bottom line though is that change is uncomfortable for most and it is common for people to resist change.


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White Paper: Using Business Analytics to Rebound & Succeed on Product Quality

Learn how Business Intelligence can be the catalyst to help your organization rebound and excel on quality during the second half of 2020.
August 18, 2020
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Download the whitepaper to learn how Business Intelligence can be the catalyst to help your organization rebound and excel on quality during the second half of 2020.


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State of the Art

How much has changed in the calibration field?
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Hill Cox
August 4, 2020
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About twenty years ago I was asked to make a presentation on calibration to a meeting of a local chapter of the National Conference of Standards Laboratories. 


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Culture of Quality

Do employees "live" quality in all of their actions?
Kathy Lyall
August 3, 2020
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A company with a highly developed culture of quality spends, on average, $350M less annually fixing mistakes than a company with a poorly developed one (Harvard Business Review, 2014). 


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Success

July 6, 2020

How much time do most people spend thinking about success and how it is achieved? Likely not as much as we should because the world really revolves around success or elements of success. 


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