Lou Ann Lathrop

Lou Ann Lathrop is an ASQ Fellow, past chair for the American Society for Quality- Automotive Division and past ASQ’s Board of Directors. She can be contacted at [email protected].

Industrial workers working on equipment in a factory.

Manufacturing

How Are Your Operations Performing?

You have corporate telling you how you should do the job, the plant manager, engineering manager, supply chain management, and hopefully even the employees.

Lou Ann Lathrop

December 12, 2024

In manufacturing, recognizing and addressing waste while focusing on value-added work is key to improving operations and enhancing product quality.

How is Your Engineering Factory Functioning?

Learn more about engineering process capability.

Lou Ann Lathrop

October 2, 2014

A radical approach to metrics development would be to inventory the engineering process capability.

Software & Analysis

Improve Your Quality Records

Computer technology has done amazing things since the first APQP document was published.

Lou Ann Lathrop

March 1, 2013

Delegating and nodding in agreement is not the way to get things done.

Quality Software & Analysis: APQP Revisited

Lou Ann Lathrop

January 29, 2010

When is the last time you thought about APQP/PPAP? Advanced Product Quality Planning and Control Plan (APQP) was originally printed in 1994 with the second edition in 2008.

Nexus, Hexagon’s cloud-based innovation platform, boosts productivity for measurement creation, analysis, and asset management. Together, PC-DMIS and Nexus elevate metrology production operations to new heights.

Drawing from 30 years of experience using neural networks in various machine vision applications, Ned will share anecdotes and examples to help you predict which kinds of applications are going to be AI wins and which ones are going to give you fits.

Lou Ann Lathrop

ARTICLES

How Are Your Operations Performing?

How is Your Engineering Factory Functioning?

Improve Your Quality Records

Quality Software & Analysis: APQP Revisited

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Stay in the know with Quality’s comprehensive coverage ofthe manufacturing and metrology industries.

eNewsletter | Website | eMagazine

Stay in the know with Quality’s comprehensive coverage of
the manufacturing and metrology industries.