Ensuring high quality in medical device manufacturing requires operational excellence, which optimizes efficiency and enhances product quality and compliance. Let’s explore some of the key elements and best practices.

Minitab Engage is a designed CI tool for initiating, monitoring, managing, and sharing innovation and initiatives from idea generation to execution.

Boeing's recent incidents have raised concerns about quality and safety. Some blame maintenance issues, not manufacturing. Regardless, it's a cautionary tale.

Most people have heard the phrase, “What gets measured gets done”; however, more than that, organizational excellence comes from having clear world-class performance measures that are consistently achieved.

Digital twins replicate real-world environments digitally, aiding manufacturers in optimizing processes and improving safety and performance.

If you feel you need to calibrate your quality radar, do your customers a favor, and get out of town.

In many production settings, machine operators are tasked with monitoring processes by taking samples and making adjustments as needed to maintain productivity. However, there's a question worth exploring: What if ignoring these data-driven adjustments and allowing the process to continue unchanged is a better strategy?

Paul Critchley, president of New England Lean Consulting, discusses Lean principles at the Quality Show South in Nashville this May. Learn how to leverage Lean for business growth in his session, "Wicked Good Leadership."

Change management is a process for ensuring that the people affected by change understand the nature of the change and the reasons for it. Successful change management is an all-hands-on-deck activity.

As many manufacturers realize, a forecast is always a gamble. At best, it is an educated guess.