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A QA system designs and manufactures products. QC verifies the products are safe. Both systems are vital for great QMS. However, each play their own part.
Collaborative engineering has long been hyped for solving critical and complex challenges in manufacturing, defeating flat earthers.
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP): a structured approach to standardize quality requirements for manufacturers to design products satisfying customers.
Since its original implementation decades ago, the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis tool has generated impressive results. It's been a catalyst to boost teamwork in organizations, which in turn, has helped to improve competitiveness, increase user satisfaction, maximize profits, and reduce any potential negative impacts.
Reducing waste cuts manufacturing time. Consider Quick Response Manufacturing. QRM helps reduce costs and increases customer satisfaction.
A practical Training Within Industry program improves quality, reduces errors, cuts hours of labor and is an important piece of Lean Practices.
Don't treat Lean Integration as a project process. Handle it as though it's an ongoing initiative requiring long-term thinking and actions.
Businesses often focus on reducing costs but ignore quality. Lean Manufacturing helps increase profits and improve quality.