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A certain automotive parts factory issues about forty 8D reports each month, and the closure meetings are highly efficie…
Last week, a quality manager told me about an incident over the phone: a batch of bearing holes was fully inspected by I…
The customer's system auditor enters the testing room and, without looking at the equipment, requests two documents: one…
In a certain stamping factory, after a mold change, the operator took the first piece and measured three external dimens…
During a process audit, a customer walked up to a stamping line and pointed to a mold on an old press, asking three ques…
Introduction: These 12 Questions Almost Always Appear in Every SPC Training Session After each SPC training, the questio…
1. The Trouble with a Batch: 1 Piece or 8 Defects? In the inspection records of a coating workshop, there was such a lin…
1. Reviewing the Scene: Two Conflicting Numbers A process capability review at a precision stamping factory. On the proc…
A hardware factory has set up five inspection stations after seven processes, with six inspectors, and averages twelve c…
A car parts company received a quality agreement from a customer: batches with a nonconforming product rate exceeding 1.…
A new project in an automotive parts company has entered the process approval stage. The customer's SQE reviewed the pro…
In the inspection records of a machine processing plant, a part with an outer diameter of 10.048 mm was marked as "confo…