Why automotive tier suppliers need a closed-loop Quality Management System

Automotive Suppliers face a number of key challenges to meeting the increasing quality demands of their customers — demands that may exceed the capabilities of existing quality systems.

Closed-loop Quality System for Industrial Machinery Industry

In the age of Industry 4.0, industrial machinery manufacturers face increasing pressures to help their customers implement innovative processes and…

APQR — Advanced Planning Quality Radar: Excellence in Closed Loop Quality

It is essential for automotive manufacturers to build a quality plan to deliver a robust product and to satisfy customer…

Industrial Machinery and the Seven Tools

In his 1990 bellwether Introduction to Quality Control, Ishikawa stated: “They were named the Seven QC Tools after the famous seven weapons of the Japanese Kamakura-era warrior-priest Benkei which en…

Meeting Regulatory Quality Requirements in the Automotive Industry

How many mistakes do we make? Do we really solve the problems? Sometimes typical solutions to a problem are based on quick actions to contain the problem itself. But only if we deeply analyze root ca…

Integrated Quality Tools for Supplier Quality Management

Increasing global competition over the past decade has forced automotive OEMs and their suppliers to improve quality and efficiency. There is a growing need for tools that make it possible to measure…

Optimizing Quality in Industrial Manufacturing with FMEA and SPC

Innovative processes and new technologies together are having a huge impact on the internal complexity and cost of manufacturing. The way in which manufacturers of industrial machinery adjust to thes…