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New To Quality or Need a Refresher? Let ASQ's Quality Resources Help. Our Topic for This Week is Reliability.

Reliability is defined as the probability that a product, system, or service will perform its intended function adequately for a specified period of time, or will operate in a defined environment without failure. The most important components of this definition must be clearly understood to fully know how reliability in a product or service is ... more

Posted by David Woods on Quality Management Division Apr 29, 2023 12:17 PM CDT

Quality Quote of the Week

"It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below." - Joseph M. Juran more

Posted by David Woods on Quality Management Division Apr 28, 2023 7:07 PM CDT

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"Quality is the best business plan.” – John Lasseter more

Posted by David Woods on Quality Management Division Apr 22, 2023 12:21 PM CDT

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Call for QMD Webinar Speakers - 2020

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Quality Management Division is giving you the opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise! Become a ...

Eileen Serrano Aug '19

Aug '19

Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to speak on leadership please. Could you send me the proposal format please? I ...

Aug '19

Enefola Obida, Please email me with your address so we can discuss the format of the webinars further. The attached ...

Aug '19

Hi Doug,

Hope all is well with you. I have something I did for the Milwaukee section regarding Force Field Analysis ...

Sep '19

Jeff,
If you wish, fill out our form and we will put you on our webinar list. You can send me an email if this does not ...

Motivating employees

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In his book: Quality without Tears (Philip B. Crosby), Crosby was talking about: Managers getting employees ...

Luigi Sille Jul '20

Jul '20

Luigi,

This is a great topic to ponder! It is one I have spent time thinking about, having worked in companies that ...

Jul '20

Trust and transparency are very important in order to establish and maintain an engaged and motivated workforce.

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Jul '20

Daniel Zrymiak:
Trust and transparency are very important in order to establish and maintain an engaged and ...

Jul '20

Hi Janet Lentz ‍

This was a good topic raised by Luigi Sille ‍

In Canada, there is a prominent public ...

Jul '20

Daniel Zrymiak ‍ :

The funny thing is that everybody, including managers, owners of companies, etc, know why ...

Aug '20

It may seem insignificant, but the first step in motivating people is being motivate as a leader. Because leaders ...

Aug '20

Understanding what can cause employees to become demotivated and what can be done to help motivate them is not a ...

Aug '20

Thanks for sharing James - some really good information to consider and share.

Aug '20

Hi James, Many thanks for sharing. I think very useful and helpful for people to understand why the motivation is ...

Aug '20

I like the 5 categories. One way my son put it most simply was there there are three areas that need to be satisfied to a ...

The next CMQ/OE body of knowledge

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The current CMQ/OE body of knowledge has been out now since 2018, and the next edition of the CMQ/OE handbook is at ...

Douglas Wood Jan '21

Jan '21

We have strategy but I think something that is missing is tactical quality management with practical ...

Jan '21

Greetings,

Though a recent acquisition I became aware of the Shingo model. Was surprised the current BoK only has ...

Jan '21

This is here but needs to be updated to reflect today's reality: III.B.4 on communication and technology. Teams ...

Jan '21

As technology changes accelerate, many Quality/ Organizational Excellence professionals are becoming data ...

Jan '21

Douglas,

I couple of months ago we discuss here in this forum about topics related to the implementation of ...

Jan '21

Douglas, I think thats a great idea. I wonder if this can be done programmatically, like comparing two PDF docs to ...

Jan '21

David,
This is good. To come up with a list of possible tactics would probably start with a list of common dilemmas. ...

Jan '21

Danny,
What was your acquisition? How did you learn about the Shingo model? Was it a book?
And, Would you consider ...

Jan '21

Aimee and Jerry,
This past year has moved us collectively about a decade forward in applied tech. This sounds like a ...

Jan '21

Luis,
Thank your for the link to the Small business discussion thread. While we resist making separate BoKs by ...

CMQ/OE professionals can review e-Learning for ASQ

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I am sharing an update from ASQ on LinkedIn, advising those with a CMQ/OE of an opportunity to review e-Learning for ...

Daniel Zrymiak Jun '21

Jun '21

Dear Sir,

Well noted ; I trained in CMQ/OE and waiting for online approved Kuwait exam center hold due to covid-19. ...

2022 Training Goals

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What are your training goals for 2022?

Houman Mehrabadi Jan '22

Jan '22

Several goals in training. To earn my ASQW Black Belt, Complete my project management certification, some Udemy ...

Certificate of Conformance

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We are an OEM, but use many components purchased from outside vendors (off the shelf items). We often resell the ...

Michael Faber Aug '22

Aug '22

Interesting topic where there are many different aspects to consider and various opinions on it. Using EN 10204 ...

Aug '22

I would say that depending on what industry you are in, consulting company legal counsel may be of benefit. If ...

Aug '22

@Andrew Conway - Thank you, Andrew. This is good and useful information.

Aug '22

@Ron Gilliland - Thank you, Ron. We did indeed seek legal counsel and they made some tweaks to the document we ...

Aug '22

It's more a question of financial risk and reward than of certification. Key question: why have you chosen to ...

Aug '22

@Michael Faber, I work as a quality inspector but do a lot of quality assurance work. A certificate of compliance or ...

Aug '22

We are a distributor of industrial products and often supply what I'd call a "generic" COC on our own letterhead. If ...

Oct '22

@Michael Faber - You may want to look at ISO/IEC 17050 if you haven't already. I am not an expert in this standard, but ...

AS9100 8.7.1 Control of Nonconforming Outputs

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I am from a company who makes Product Identification & Printed Electronics. We just had our AS9100 audit for ...

Jodi Gallagher Nov '22

Nov '22

Hi Jodi,
I am an auditor for ISO9001:2015, not AS9100, but I am curious about the finding. Could you please state the ...

Nov '22

Hi Jodi

To minimize non-conformance’s I would recommend implementing between a three and six sigma depending on ...

Nov '22

@Jodi Gallagher

Hi Jodi,

Without more specifics of the issue, it is hard to provide guidance. However, there are ...

Nov '22

Hi Jodi,
I’ve seen a lot of various options for scrap disposition processes that were created over the years. From ...

Nov '22

Given what you provided, I think the locked container is the best option. I managed an optical disc manufacturing ...

Nov '22

@Jodi Gallagher
Like others are saying, without the details it's hard to know where the auditor is coming from, but ...

Nov '22

Need to be more specific of what you mean by "Control" since it is a very broad statement specially for ...

Nov '22

@Jodi Gallagher
Hi Jodi, I return to continue my thoughts and clarify a bit.

Assuming the auditor's finding is ...

Nov '22

@Jodi Gallagher

Dear Jodi,

Please help us understand the criteria, I presume that AS9100 rev D (in italics) is the ...

Nov '22

@Jodi Gallagher

Strategic Alignment for Driving Superior Business ...

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Click the link below to see the final draft of the Statement on Management Accounting that was issued to the ...

Jerry Rice Jun '18

Jun '18

This is outstanding. Thank you for posting and sharing this excellent content.

Planning, Control and Evaluation of Sports Training.

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382/5000 Good afternoon. As an ASQ member I wish to consult the State of the Art of the Athlete Preparation process, ...

Jairo Guzman Silva Feb '20

Mar '20

Jairo Guzman Silva ‍ the Quality in Athletics Interest group is no longer active, but you can find the work that they ...

Reducing Errors in a Management Review

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As an auditor for two certified bodies, I have seen that even the most well planned and well-thought-out ...

William Hackett Oct '20

Oct '20

Very nice summary of common management review problems. Our agenda template is lifted from the standard itself. ...

Oct '20

Thank you for sharing your insight and presenting it in a wonderful summary that I can take and use in my work.
Have a ...

Oct '20

Very good content and summary.

It will be interesting to track the impact of this years virtual audits on each one of ...

Oct '20

Thanks William - Good article . Well done.

One common issue is that the middle management does not often highlight ...

Oct '20

Your summary of management review risks provides good guidance for someone developing and maintaining a ...

Oct '20

Hello William,
Good Morning.
Very important aspect, rather heart of QMS.
Here are my two cents.
I am a Lead Auditor ...

Oct '20

My 0.02$ ...
I have found that the Management Review becomes ineffective when it is treated as an " activity " and not ...

Aug '22

@William Hackett

Great content

Dec '22

@William Hackett Great summary, just completed our annual management review meeting a few days ago and this is so ...

Dec '22

I wrote my thoughts on management review here: Management Review – a Structured Analysis of Reality – ...

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Much of the information used by organizations to measure and track performance consists of quantitative data. Figures such as sales of a particular product, on-time delivery of suppliers, average length of ...
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One key legacy of the Industrial Age was the trend of mass production. Henry Ford said that following about the people waiting to buy his company's Model Ts, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he ...
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