Carl L. Drechsel has 40 years as a quality champion. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) and past chair of ASQ Section 1422 Bay Area Texas and is currently serving as secretary of the ASQ Inspection Division.
Quality 4.0 integrates the features from Industry 4.0 with traditional quality tools to achieve operational excellence, improved overall performance, and innovation. Quality 4.0 combines people, processes, and technologies to accomplish these goals, along with complete digitalization of quality management systems theory.
Almost 30 years ago the Construction Industry Institute (CII) researched the “Costs of Quality Deviations in Design and Construction,” and concluded that, “The average cost of rework on industrial projects exceeds 12%.” Design deviations accounted for about 80% of the increased cost and construction deviations only 20%.
