Standards and Auditing : Inspection
Quality in the First Person: Failure of Inspection
Inspection often occurs at the end of the production line. As a result, the information gained from identifying problem pieces comes too late to make adjustments in the process, let alone isolate places in the process that are causing the problem....
Quality in the First Person: Earning His Stripes
It was 40 years ago, but I remember it well. Pinned to the door of my new office was a large caricature of a fierce looking Princeton Tiger (representing my alma mater) locked in a cage marked “received.”...
The Histogram for Complex Parts
In the aerospace industry, production and procurement usually consists of infrequent lots of complex parts with relatively small lot sizes. Data are often insufficient to implement standard process assessment techniques. In these situations, a percent...
AS9003: An Aerospace Standard For the Little Guy
AS9003, Inspection and Test Quality System, represents the return to a traditional aerospace industry approach to quality management that existed before the adoption of the ISO 9000 quality standards. While most large manufacturers and suppliers have...
Stop Depending On Inspection
In today’s global marketplace, “better, cheaper, and faster” has become the mantra for manufacturers. Obviously, it would be better to build a product correctly in the first place, but making the transition from a traditional...
Top 10 Tips for Shop Floor Audit Readiness
Wendy, a shift supervisor at fictitious Skyko Industries, was notified her manufacturing area was going to be added to the scope of Skyko’s ISO 9001 registration....
Get Your Shop Measurements Right
Many measurement problems in the shop are due to basic metrology’s being ignored or unknown, and this transforms into what I call bad data disease....
How To Make Software Peer Reviews Work
Formal peer review is a powerful and cheap tool for determining the quality of a software product as it goes through system development. Ideally, peer reviews have the potential to quickly detect defects and reduce costly errors. However, since these...
State Supervision and Inspection of Product Quality in China
An inspection program in the People's Republic of China has documented its quality problems. The SSIPQ (state supervision and inspection of product quality) program also has identified reasons for the problems and made recommendations for dealing with...
Early SQC: A Historical Supplement
The Hawthorne Works of AT&T's Western Electric Company was the site of early applications of statistics to inspection problems. Probability theory at AT&T can be traced to 1903, and its first application to inspection occurred in 1916. By 1922, A. P....
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