2023 Quality Show Agenda

Quality Awards

The Quality Professional of the Year recognizes an individual who, during the course of his/her career, has made outstanding contributions to the quality profession. The Quality Plant of the Year award recognizes plants that have applied world-class quality technology, equipment, services and techniques that improve quality standards. In our latest award, Rookie of the Year, Quality recognizes an individual with one to five years of experience in the industry who has contributed to the quality profession even in this short amount of time.

The Future of Quality: What Lies Ahead?

From hiring, to technology, to the economy…Travis discusses the concerns, challenges, and opportunities that face an ever changing manufacturing environment. Coming from his unique position at TITANS of CNC Travis shares his insights into what can make quality the foundation of your company’s success.

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When Quality & Sustainability Meet

Sustainability is increasingly becoming more important to consumers thereby making sustainable manufacturing the new priority for industrial manufacturers. Quality and Sustainability are two critical aspects of business operations that are closely intertwined and can complement each other when integrated into an organization’s operations.

The fundamental shift is in moving from pure profit maximization to a new definition of growth—one that gives due weight to the health of society and the planet. This presentation aims to show how organizations can integrate sustainability with their existing quality systems and achieve increased efficiency and cost savings in the joint initiative.

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Low Cost Technology Applications in Lean

Lean manufacturing includes the concept of kaizen. Innovation solutions are usually high tech, high cost, large scale changes that are often slow to implement. Kaizen solutions are low cost, small changes that are easy to implement. They are traditionally low tech, however with increasing access to low cost technology, the range of kaizen solutions has broadened. This session highlights low cost tech applications in Lean improvements.

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The Top 4 Quality Inspection Nightmares and What You Can Do About Them

The nightmares shared in this presentation and the associated prescriptive solutions come from our many years of experience working with quality engineers in manufacturing organizations. Pursuing software solutions to these and other challenges is our purpose as an organization.
Here are the 4 Nightmares addressed in this presentation:

• Nightmare #1: FAI Reports are Time Consuming
• Nightmare #2: Scrap and Rejects are Reducing Profitability
• Nightmare #3: Being Unprepared for Emerging 3D Model Requirements
• Nightmare #4: Each Customer has a Unique Inspection Form

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Good Quality is Good Business. Building the Business Case for Quality Management

Many of us in the quality domain struggle to financially quantify our efforts and successes. Recent research shows that only a minority of the manufacturers deploy a Total Cost of Quality model to systematically quantify the financial impact of quality management. In this paper, we present a simple but effective approach to quantify the quality business function. With this methodology quality professionals can:

• Assess where their spend on quality goes
• Calculate the ROI of any quality related investment
• Benchmark their quality business function with their peers

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Total Process Control in Automated Manufacturing

Automation is a strategy for scaling the productivity of talented, but finite, labor resource. Automation empowers manufacturing to produce quality product at large scale, but also produce scrap at large scale. Renishaw presents methods and tools from its own manufacturing facilities on how to control and automate every operation in the process, from material handling to setup to metal cutting to final inspection. The quality of a finished good is verified automatically after the quality has been built into the part at every operation automatically. Learn how to achieve extraordinary results with ordinary resource from your partner in process control.

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Digitally Connected 3D Measurements for Data-Driven Decisions

How can you increase profits and revolutionize your engineering and manufacturing processes with 3D measurements? Join this presentation to explore the future of 3D metrology. Discover the transformative potential of a universal 3D metrology platform, streamlining workflows and boosting team performance. Learn how data management on a central server drives unprecedented efficiency gains through seamless access, sharing, and collaboration. Uncover the benefits of digital interconnections, optimizing decision-making and productivity. Real-world testimonials showcase how you can empower your organization for success in the digital era. Join us to have a better grasp of the true potential of your 3D measurement data.

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Winning Over Skeptical Workers

This session will focus on a strategic, democratic approach to leadership called the Circle of Influence. The Circle of Influence consists of five components: acknowledge, listen, agree, rethink and effectively close. It emphasizes compassion, accessibility, and inclusion. We’ll examine each of these charismatic leadership traits in depth and show how they work together to transform teams—and entire organizations.

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The Building Blocks of Organizational Culture

Discover the 12 building blocks of a Human Centered Organization. Create an organizational culture that delivers the most value to the end customer while unlocking hidden potential and leveraging talents from every single employee. Learn to thrive in this very dynamic, fast-paced, and complex business environment. This session shares the characteristics, tools, and examples of a holistic organizational system that incorporates Lean Six Sigma techniques with the concepts of Mindfulness and employee engagement. Join the co-author of the text as you explore ways to improve your company culture.

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America Makes Efforts in AM Qualification

Driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), America Makes is a Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institute focused on additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. Since its inception, America Makes has leveraged a national collaborative ecosystem to advance the readiness level of AM technologies and invigorate the knowledge base, skills, and training available for the domestic AM supply chain. Our strategy is the product of collaboration with our membership, which is comprised of representation from all tiers of the domestic AM supply chain. An overview of prior, current, and future America Makes research and development addressing AM material and process qualification will be summarized.

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Verifying Your Gages: The Daily Practices Your Team Should Be Performing

Learn the tools to give your team the assurance that the equipment they use will be maintained, well performing, and most importantly, in tolerance. This seminar will discuss the differences between calibration versus verification of equipment and the maintenance of many common gages such as Micrometers, Calipers, Height Gages and more. Find out how verification schedules and daily checks of your gages per day, or even per shift, can extend your gage life and catch underperforming gages before incorrect data is obtained.

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Leveraging Cross-Functional Team CQI Strategies for Expedited Growth: Meet Reed Switch Developments Corp., 2023 Quality Magazine Plant of the Year

Introducing 2023 Quality Magazine’s Plant of the Year, the 100% U.S. based and woman-owned Reed Switch Developments Corp., a designer and manufacturer of standard and custom magnetic reed switch sensors and actuators for a variety of industries. Learn more about their rich company history, award-winning formula for rapid growth, successful LEAN manufacturing techniques, mindful in-house talent development and retention strategies, strategic industry expert outsourcing for improved ROI and cost savings, sales and marketing strategies, and other successful cross-functional team-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) techniques. Learn how your company can boost its own growth, efficiency, cost-savings, staff retention, and CQI metrics.

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Inspection Versus Auditing

Many people view Inspection and Auditing as being the same. Even though there are overlaps of these tools they are not the same. This presentation focuses on understanding each of the management tools and their differences. The attendee will provided an understanding on when each term should be used.

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Transformational Benefits at the Intelligent Edge

Zebra’s manufacturing technology solutions enable manufacturers to see more, know more, and do more to become increasingly agile, optimize plant floor performance, and embrace market changes. In his presentation, Andy Zosel will share how Zebra is internally managing (and can help other manufacturers manage) the “triple squeeze” of labor shortages, diminishing predictability, and rising quality expectations. His talk will highlight recent innovations in manufacturing technology use cases, including mobile robotics, RFID-enabled visibility, and AI machine vision.

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