Supplier audits grant an opportunity to amass relevant comprehensive information about organizations that leverage your competence when it comes to serving the customers. It is important for assessment of supplier’s Quality Management System that whether it is capable of meeting your requirements or not. A supplier audit is needed to ensure that: Customer receives [...]
The 8D methodology is a method for solving problems to achieve process and product improvement. It is designed into eight steps (the 8 D’s) and focuses on team. The 8D methodology is used widely across automotive companies, but has with great success been adopted across various other industries. The 8D is short for Eight [...]
The gage repeatability and reproducibility (Gage R&R) analysis is an essential part of a Quality Management System (QMS) in any organization. This study states that whether the measurement system is adequate for its destined use or not. It also tells which part of the measurement system is reinforcing the most to the deviations of [...]
Different organizations can gain from internal audit, but the choice to make is to use of an in-house team or external consultants. Internal audit staff or a combination of both can impact how much value internal audit can give. Let’s review the two scenarios of internal audit in house vs outsourcing. Choosing the right [...]
For every task whether simple or complex, a detailed action plan is necessary for the best outcome and accomplishment of goals. Although simpler tasks look easy but skipping one step can ruin all your efforts. Therefore you need to create an action plan having all the key tasks, their sequence, all the minor detailing [...]
Risk is referred to as any situation that involves vulnerability to danger or any sort of harm. For any organization, being able to take steps to carry out a risk assessment is an important part of business. It is the evaluation and analysis of any task or process that might be dangerous or hazardous [...]
If you are not well informed about it then is is not analysis is also a problem solving tool used to solve issues in similar way as FMEA, Correlation, 5 Whys, Brainstorming, Affinity Diagram, Tolerance Analysis, PDCA, and several other techniques. Basically, it is a tool for solving the problems by explaining the sensible [...]
There are always defective products, virtually in every batch of production. Manufacturers check each batch and repair the defected pieces, but visual inspection is not always 100% reliable. This is where the role of AQL table comes into play particularly when you want to know how to set the limit between acceptability and refusal [...]
In this ever-changing, highly complex and competitive global business environment, the organizations and the managers are facing enormous challenges and paying much more attention on strategic planning and analysis. Strategic planning tools and analysis help organizations to identify key elements affecting the environment as well as performance and growth of the organization. PESTLE analysis [...]
Before talking about supplier audits in ISO 9001, we must know the basic concept of supplier audits in ISO 9001. So, it is a procedure of following the process and operations that are consent on from a selection of audit process. It recognizes nonconformity in the engineering change process, manufacturing process, quality process, invoicing [...]
