Category: Continuous Improvement
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Empowering Manufacturing Excellence: How We Built a Tool Replacement Management System That Saves Time, Reduces Risk, and Secures Customer Funding
1. Introduction In high-volume automotive manufacturing, tooling health across injection molds, stamping dies, and casting dies—is mission-critical. Unexpected tool failures can cause production delays, quality issues, and costly customer escalations. To address these risks, I led a cross functional team to launch a Tool Replacement Management Project to move from reactive firefighting to a proactive,…
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Cost of Poor Quality Metric for Individual Suppliers and Business decisions on risk based approach
Traditionally, quality costs have particularly emphasized the cost of non-conformances. Important as this cost, we also need to estimate the cost of inefficient processes. This includes cost of redundant operations, sorting inspections, and other forms of non-value added activities. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) categorizes cost of poor quality into 4 segments. Internal Failure…
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Monitoring Cost of Quality and Merging with Non Conformance Reports
The purpose of cost of quality (COQ) technique is to provide a tool to management for facilitating quality program and quality improvement activities. Quality cost reports can be used to point out the strengths and weaknesses of a quality system. Quality costs can define the activities of quality program and quality improvement efforts in a…
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Supplier Performance monitoring with Business Analytics
I’m sure we all at some point wondered about the biggest quality issue our company has. If you are working in a multinational company with production operations in more than 2-3 countries, streamlining multiple sources of data and arriving to a meaningful conclusion to some of the deep rooted process issues is a challenging task.…
Quality Thinking 