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What is QUALITY?

Quality – a word that surrounds us personally and professionally, possibly throughout our lifecycle. It has different meanings as well: The standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind. The degree of excellence of something. A distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something. When assessing a product or a service, quality can be separated as: A. User-based – “consistent, long-term, and on-target performance of products and services in the hands of the customer”. B.…

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Solution to the Skills Gap

To restate the point of our last blog post: The skills gap experienced by manufacturing companies affects growth! The cost-of-turnover affects the bottom line. Lack of requisite skills affects productivity and innovation. Based on the top challenges cited in the first post, two of the criticisms contributing to the problem were: Lack of management commitment to provide funding, time, and training; and Lack of awareness of what actions can be taken; It’s never too late!  What can you do about…

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How does GD&T facilitate making the correct decisions?

GD&T:  Measurement Discrepancies in CMM when using a Holding Fixture – It Passes And Then It Fails? I received a phone call from a quality manager who was one of my previous GD&T students. He asked me, “Why am I getting passing results when I measure hole locations on our coordinate measuring machine (CMM), but when I check the features of the same part on a functional gage, it doesn’t fit?” There are a couple of possible reasons as to…

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The Skills Gap

Despite the fact industries such as manufacturing face high turnover and retirement numbers, addressing the skills gap that would fill those vacancies remains a challenge. With two out of every five manufacturing companies averaging 20% turnover each year, that represents 43% 1 of companies in the industry losing valuable skills and knowledge.  Manufacturers polled about their top challenges yielded the following result: 99% – finding skilled new hires, 92% – upskilling incumbent workforce, 84% – onboarding new employees. The skills gap…

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Quality Standards Framework

What is the right approach to be effective? This topic was presented at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2018 in Chicago, IL by Anish Shah. Anish conveyed that an effective dimensional metrology standards management process for manufacturing companies is essential to business success. Those companies adapt and incorporate national as well as international published standards. In the past 100 years, hundreds of national and international standards, and related manufacturing and metrology documents, have been put in place.  Coincidentally, the…

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Success in Training: Part 4

There are many different schools of thought regarding training and how to ensure its effectiveness for an organization.  Some common questions should be answered well in advance of the training.   In this 4 part series, each of the questions will be broken down to properly plan for effective training. Part 4: “How long to train?” Depending on the subject matter, sometimes less is more.  It’s important to remember that adult learners have many other details to process (whether work-related…

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Success in Training: Part 2

There are many different schools of thought regarding training and how to ensure its effectiveness for an organization.  Some common questions should be answered well in advance of the training.   In this 4 part series, each of the questions will be broken down to properly plan for effective training. Part 2 of 4:”What’s In It For Me?” That’s the question your workers will have in being expected to delay work in order to attend training, especially if travel is…

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Success in Training: Part 1

Assessing the skills and development plans of your employees is critical in determining what training will provide your workers with the right tools for performance growth. Is there an immediate need for an upcoming project or is there a longer-term need for structured development?

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