Articles Tagged with ''quality control''

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Improperly Installed Fasteners Prompt Latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner Investigation

June 13, 2024

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC—Boeing is investigating a new quality issue with its 787 Dreamliner after discovering that hundreds of fasteners on some undelivered jets have been incorrectly installed.

BMW Uses CT Scans to Improve Quality

September 25, 2018

Computer tomography (CT) has traditionally been used in the healthcare field. But, engineers at BMW recently started to use the technology to improve quality. They use it for prototype development, production and analysis, a first in the automotive industry.

Quality Products Start With Quality Projects

Jon Quigley

September 10, 2018

Project quality and product quality are different things, but they are inextricably linked—or they should be. It is possible for a project to seem successful and deliver the anticipated result, only to find out later the product is not what was expected.

Four Steps to Ensure Quality and Process Control Using Digital Work Instructions

September 1, 2018

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.

Toyota Plants Named Tops in Quality

August 10, 2018

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Cambridge North plant in Ontario, Canada, which produces the Toyota Corolla, and Georgetown 3 plant in Kentucky, which produces the Lexus ES, are the joint recipients of the 2018 J.D. Power Gold Plant Quality Award.

BMW Improves Quality With Data Analysis

Data analysis allows for predictive maintenance and quality control

Frank Wienstroth

May 4, 2018

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.

Red Viking Creates New Business Unit

March 28, 2018

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

The Transparent Factory

The correct approach to data management can transform a business and its ability to serve its marketplace

Jason Spera

December 1, 2016

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.

Austin Weber

September 30, 2016

What’s up with product quality lately? Despite recent efforts to address the issue, quality still plagues manufacturers in a wide variety of industries.

Can Quality Be Saved?

Jim Smith Ph.D. ABD

November 24, 2014

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.

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