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What to do if you have recurring quality problems from your factory? [Podcast]

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What to do if you have recurring quality problems from your factoryRenaud and Adrian discuss the unwelcome scenario of recurring quality problems from your outsourced supplier who’s handling your manufacturing in China. They cover your quality standard, 6 tips on how to handle common recurring quality problems, and several reasons WHY these issues might be happening in the first place.

 

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Greetings and introducing the topic: What happens if you have repeated quality issues from your manufacturing supplier?
  • 01:57 – YOU need to make sure that the supplier understands your quality standard first.
  • 03:46 – Tip 1. Always inform the supplier clearly how and why they went wrong.
  • 08:18 – Tip 2. Give feedback on issues as early as possible during production.
  • 10:44 – Tip 3. NEVER accept quality lower than your standard, including making an exception.
  • 14:00 – Tip 4. Clearly define your quality standard including critical, major, minor, and non-defects.
  • 22:01 – Tip 5. Set AQL limits (i.e. tolerances for defects) that correspond to your quality standard.
  • 26:09 – Tip 6. Switch to a newer better supplier.
  • 31:46 – Why product design issues could actually be the cause of your troubles.
  • 33:43 – Why poor manufacturing might be the cause.
  • 37:08 – Why your supplier’s suppliers might be the cause.
  • 41:27 – Wrapping up.

 

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What’s The Cost Of Quality? [Podcast]

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What's The Cost Of Quality? [Podcast]Our CEO Renaud Anjoran is joined again by Clive Greenwood and Max Phythian in this episode where they delve into the cost of quality.

They have an interesting and lively discussion about what the costs are that are related to quality, the ROI of investing in a zero-defect approach, the benefits of Quality Assurance, how to work with your suppliers and improve the quality coming from them even if they are not very quality-minded, and plenty of advice about how to invest in your processes in order to reduce costs.

 

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Introduction. 
  • 01:40 – When we talk about the cost related in some way to quality we have prevention and appraisal, internal failures, and external failures. What do these mean? 
  • 07:51 – What’s the ROI of investing in zero defects? 
  • 13:28 – What benefits does QA provide aside from cost reduction? 
  • 20:13 – Supplier quality management. 
  • 25:13 – Design For Quality (DFQ) and why quality is an investment. 
  • 28:50 – What does the customer need to do if a Chinese manufacturer is unsophisticated and has little awareness about quality? 
  • 44:03 – Wrapping Up

 

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Tips On How To Get Suppliers To Zero Defects [Podcast]

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Tips On How To Get Suppliers To Zero Defects [Podcast]

Sofeast’s CEO Renaud Anjoran is joined by two very experienced manufacturing practitioners and consultants to discuss how to drive a zero-defect initiative with your key suppliers. Podcast regular and six sigma black belt Clive Greenwood and pure lean consultant Max Phythian complete the panel.

You’ll learn the importance of building a relationship with these suppliers as important partners, what buyers need to do to develop the supplier, how fewer defects can be achieved, and hear some interesting examples from the careers of the speakers.

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Introduction.
  • 02:03 –  What does it take to get a key supplier to put in the work to go closer to zero defects?
  • 09:39 – How to create the conditions required for better quality?
  • 18:13 – How to speak with your supplier’s top management to spur the effort to go to zero defects?
  • 27:22 – About CoQ (cost of quality). How to change a supplier’s mindset that ‘better quality will require higher prices?’
  • 33:13 – Since the 80s large organizations like Auto manufacturers improved quality a lot. What caused this (better communication, more awareness of CoQ, better incentives)?
  • 35:38 – How should people in a less-regulated industry, such as general consumer goods, approach their suppliers about reducing defects quickly?
  • 42:38 – Let’s say you have a key supplier and their quality isn’t improving over the years even though they know your standard. What can be done to push them to improve? Stick or carrot?
  • 47:39 – Wrapping up

 

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Common Design For Manufacture Improvements On Plastic Injection Molded Parts

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7336″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://www.sofeast.com/knowledgebase/design-for-manufacture-improvements-plastic-injection-molding”][vc_column_text]How do you ensure your design is mature, and you are ready to order the fabrication of the mold for your new injection molded plastic part? One way is to carry out a Design for Manufacture (DFM) analysis.

This way, most potential issues will be raised and you can generate a corrective action list to eradicate any potential issue before it occurs.

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