Ensuring high quality is relatively easy when all you have to do is assemble one small product at a very high volume. Such an item will likely be produced on a high-speed automated assembly system. Assuming there are no issues with the incoming parts, the system will consistently produce perfect assemblies all day long.

Building a car generates massive amounts of data throughout the value chain. The BMW Group uses its Smart Data Analytics digitalization cluster to analyze this data selectively and enhance its production system. Results from intelligent data analysis make an effective contribution towards improving quality in all areas of production and logistics.

RedViking has created a new business unit. Manufacturing Quality Systems (MQS) will be based at the company's headquarters.

If you can’t see it, you can’t measure it, and if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it! This is the simple mantra of successful manufacturers the world over. Manufacturing excellence can only come from manufacturing visibility.

While manufacturers agree that the quality revolution that began in the 1980s is a good thing, quality does not seem to have improved as a result.

SPARTANBURG, SC—BMW is running a pilot project at its assembly plant here to determine whether the Google Glass wearable computer could improve workflow in quality assurance.