Articles On Quality

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Statistical Process Control (SPC) for Everyday Work Processes - by Greg Gruska, Senior Consultant, Omnex and Chad Kymal, Chief Technical Officer & Founder, Omnex

Theoretically, Statistical Process Control (SPC) is viewed as useful for economically producing consistently acceptable products and services. In practice, however, SPC isn't being used for continually improving unique industrial processes. The right tools, such as advanced charts, can make SPC effective in these situations. More....

Managing the next phase of growth - Lean Six sigma in the Pharmaceutical Industry - by Arun Kumar, Vice President of Omnex Asia Operations

How many times during our day to day work have we faced problems where we have to grapple with products delivery issues, high rejections, high machine downtimes, inventory turns are not as per target and of course, my personal favorite- "If the procedure has two signatures and a red stamp that says "Approved", I thought I just had to do it. So if it's bad, ask quality department!" More...

Latest update on ISO/TS 16949:2002 - by Chad Kymal, Chief Technical Officer & Founder, Omnex

ISO/TS 16949:2002 gets redefined often as the standard evolves over time. Though the technical specification does not change, the definition, interpretation, and audit requirements have changed and/or evolved over time through Sanctioned Interpretations and FAQs. Most of the time the changes are focused on improvements based on required industry change. More....

Proof by example - Yes, Statistical Process Control (SPC) Does Work - by Greg Gruska, Senior Consultant, Omnex

Why must SPC be periodically revitalized? If it is all that people say it was, wouldn't it be self sustaining? The problem is that SPC is viewed as an approach for the "Economic Control of Quality". This is the way Dr. Shewhart initially described this approach. But if times are good, management does not focus on economic control but volume control. More....

Lessons e-learned - Reduce Costs, Improve Effectiveness - by Robert Halsey, President, Omnex

With tight budgets and volumes of rapidly changing information that has to be absorbed by mobile workforces, companies are looking for additional ways to create and sustain organizational knowledge. With the rapid increase in corporate and personal access to high-speed internet connections and a younger workforce that has grown up using computers and playing video games, e-Learning has become a very cost effective and efficient training method. More....