Exploring Acceptance Sampling in InfinityQS’ SPC Solution, ProFicient

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With this blog, I hope to help shed some much-needed light on Acceptance Sampling, an important part of many manufacturing quality endeavors. Before we get started, I would just like to say that Acceptance Sampling, combined with statistical process control (SPC) techniques, can provide a serious boost to your organization’s process improvement program. A Little … Continued

5 Key Benefits Of Statistical Process Control

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The use of control charts alone should not define the entirety of a successful statistical process control (SPC) deployment. Even though SPC begins on the shop floor, the most successful deployments are those in which quality professionals, managers, and engineers intelligently leverage the data and information generated by an SPC system to make extensive, high-level … Continued

Getting a Return from Your Quality System

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Companies don’t know what they don’t know. If you really want insights into the operational aspects of a company, you’ve got to collect data and analyze it. That’s when hidden information contained within data will be revealed. Measuring the right things and periodically analyzing the data with the right tools—these are the keys to generating a … Continued

Prioritize Manufacturing Process Control Improvements

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As a quality professional, you’re constantly being asked to fix problems. Instead of reacting to problems, what if you could provide solutions that truly enhance quality control in manufacturing operations? Wouldn’t it be great to quickly and easily compare the performance of each of your parts, lines, processes, and sites—at a glance—and determine where to … Continued

The Top 10 SPC Mistakes: Part 1

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Me: As you think about your organization’s manufacturing quality efforts—what you’ve overcome and what you hope to accomplish in the future—there is something you need to know. You: What? Who? Me? Me: Yes, you. No matter how long you’ve been playing this game, and I know many of you have been playing it as long as I have, … Continued

Fully-Automated Data Collection is a Snap: Data Collection Series #3

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In the first two blogs of our Data Collection series, we looked at manual and semi-automated data collection. Specifically, we discussed how InfinityQS® Enact®—a comprehensive quality intelligence solution—provides a data collection software solution that makes both manual and semi-automated data collection easy and helps users focus on what’s important for them to do their jobs. For this, our third … Continued