Quality Articles

Cost of poor quality (COPQ) is described as the cost of flaws in ongoing operation or product. It is the primary economic research that is done for Six Sigma or lean manufacturing. It is utilized to validate inception of a new project. Cost of poor quality includes the cost [...]

Quality tools are helpful in monitoring and management of quality system in an organization. Karou Ishikawa, a Japanese quality guru, was the first one to emphasize on seven basic quality tools and stated 90% of all quality related issues can be solved only by using these basic tools. The [...]

Before comparing the two types of certificates, let's start with a brief look at each of them. Certificate of Conformance (COC) A document certified by a competent authority verifying the fact that the provided goods or service fulfills the essential requirements but does not usually include particular test conditions, [...]

Visual inspection can also be called as 100% inspection. It is usually adopted to prevent shipping of a non-compliant product. Visual inspection is a method in which the unit or product is inspected with unaided eye either alone or with any aid, on the basis of which specific unit [...]

Firstly, let me explain to you what measurement system analysis (MSA) is. In short then measurement system analysis (MSA) is a mathematical and experimental process which determines how much variation the measurement system contribute to the overall process variability. Measurement System Analysis Terminology There are a few terminologies that [...]

Well, to say it simply, a bottleneck in operation management is a point in production where a process meets or even exceeds the ability to manufacture. To make things easier, it is when a department or a factory can’t produce the required units fast enough to maintain the remaining [...]