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Strategy & Governance · Customers & Markets · Satisfaction, NPS & Complaint Analysis

QM Management Depth (24) | Customer Quality Strategy: From Complaint Handling to Customer Management

1. A Quality Manager Trapped by "Complaints" for Three Years A certain automotive parts manufacturing company, with an a…

Advanced Quality & R&D Quality · Process Development & Approval · Control Plan (CP)

Why Do People Always Fill in "Product Characteristics" and "Process Characteristics" Incorrectly in Control Plans? —— A Five-Step Method to Align the Two Columns

During a customer audit at an automotive parts factory, the auditor pointed to a control plan for a welding process and …

Business & Enterprise Operations · Cost & Resource Management · Cost of Quality (COQ)

Who Should Bear the Loss from Incoming Nonconforming Products? — A Five-Step Method for Supply Chain Quality Cost Aggregation and Claim Linkage

A quality director of an automotive parts company was asked by the general manager at the annual business meeting: "How …

Advanced Quality & R&D Quality · Design Quality · DFMEA

Advancing QE Skills (23) | The Synergy of DFMEA and PFMEA: How Design Changes Affect Processes

A wire harness connector produced by an automotive parts company received a batch of complaints about pin withdrawal in …

Customer Quality & Field Service · Customer Special Requirements · CSR Interpretation & Implementation

QM Management Depth (23) | Management Mechanism for Customer Special Requirements (CSR)

1. A List on the Client Audit Table That No One Can Match A certain automotive parts company, with an annual revenue of …

Quality Management System · Documentation, Records & Knowledge · Documented Information Structure

ISO9001 System Document Package (55) | Record Forms Templates: Document Distribution and Recall Record, Change Request Form, Record List, and Document Review Form

Document Description : This document is a set of "document and record" forms in the fourth level documents record forms …

Six Sigma & Statistical Quality · Statistical Process Control · Control Chart Selection & Out-of-Control Analysis

Can a Control Chart Be Drawn with Only One Data Point per Shift? —— Five Steps to Implement the Individual-Moving Range (I-MR) Chart

A quality engineer in a heat treatment workshop has been staring at a "control chart that doesn't look like a control ch…

Advanced Quality & R&D Quality · Process Development & Approval · PPAP & Process Approval

Customer Grants "Temporary Approval" and Production Lines Go Full Throttle? — Decoding Conditions of PPAP Temporary Approval and the Five-Step Method for Closing the Loop

A certain automotive parts company received a new project. The status column of the PSW read "Temporary Approval Interim…

Advanced Quality & R&D Quality · Advanced Planning · APQP Stage Gates

Advancing QE Skills (22) | APQP from a QE Perspective: What to Deliver at Each Stage and Where to Focus

1. Why Did a "Complete Documentation" APQP Fail on the First Trial Production Run? A new project at an automotive parts …

Strategy & Governance · Corporate Governance & Risk · Internal Controls & Compliance Framework

Quality Management Depth (22) | Quality Compliance and Product Liability: A Management Framework for Regulatory Risks

1. A Batch of Seized Goods Raises Questions About an Unmaintained List A manufacturing company with annual revenue of 1.…

Quality Management System · Documentation, Records & Knowledge · Documented Information Structure

ISO9001 System Document Package (54) | Customer Service Record Forms Templates: Satisfaction Survey, Complaint Handling, Customer Property, and After-sales Service Records

Document Description : This document is a set of "Customer Service" record forms templates, which are part of the fourth…

Six Sigma & Statistical Quality · Statistical Process Control · Control Chart Selection & Out-of-Control Analysis

Why Does One Batch Trigger an Alarm While the Other Doesn’t, Despite Both Having 3 Nonconforming Pieces? — A Five-Step Method for Selecting Counting Control Charts (p/np/c/u)

When it comes to SPC control charts, most workshops immediately think of the X̄ R chart: measuring dimensions, torque, a…