Are you struggling to implement Lean methods in your organization? In this column, we will discuss the biggest obstacle to practicing Lean and how emotionally intelligent leaders can address resistance from staff to successfully implement improvement methods.
In 2003, the company I was working for took the pioneering step of pursuing ISO 9001:2000 Certification. When the management made this decision, I was the sole volunteer who willingly invested extra hours to establish a robust quality management system for the company.
So how does a company encourage employees to perform and to seek to learn more about effective auditing? There are a few things that could be useful in your internal training program.
The manufacturing landscape is undergoing a profound transformation in the era of Industry 4.0, characterized by the integration of digital technologies, automation, and data-driven decision-making. Quality 4.0 is at the heart of this evolution.
Quality sat down with Dan Zrymiak, an ASQ Fellow and recipient of ASQ’s Feigenbaum and Crosby Medal, to share his expertise on culture, leadership and values. Listen to the full podcast.
Accelerated weathering instruments are designed to reproduce the stress and damages caused by sunlight, heat, and water (rain/dew). Typically, testing can reproduce within weeks the damage that occurs over months or years.
The automation of materials testing has been an evolutionary process. The task of automatically feeding standard specimens into universal testing machines has been in place for decades—at least as far back as the 1980s.