If You Do Not Flex, You Will Break: The more you resist change, the more uncomfortable you become when things change. So, when change occurs without notice, the more likely you are to crack, snap or just lose your mind. As social beings some of us become more and more rigid with our daily routines
The Process Guru: A good Process Technician, sometimes known as “The Process Guru” can be described as someone good at compensating for a poorly engineered process. Before a plastic part is ready to be molded, one could only expect a robust product design with realistic tolerances for the plastic material selected and a well-built mold
Injection Mold/Process Qualification First Article and/or First Piece start up inspection – Verifies that the mold, equipment and machine setup is qualified to run. In order to validate that the molding process consistently yields acceptable results, inspection data needs to be collected using an adequate sampling method over multiple lots. Inspection during production will ensure
Injection Molding Process Optimization Optimizing the molding process requires technical skill, knowledge and expertise of the equipment as well as a methodical scientific approach. You can run endless trials and experiments and collect data but that will not change the end result. The process reliability is limited and only as good as the first four
Artificial Intelligence: For better or worse With the rise and popularity of artificial intelligence there appears to be a lot of hype pushing for new technologies to make our lives better, but who is really benefiting? Industry 4.0 is pushing its way through the manufacturing industry to get everyone connected, but what will all the
Quality System – Where Do We Start? You have decided that you need a new or improved quality system, and now the question is, where do you start? To quote Stephen Covey, begin with the end in mind. Does the organization need or wish to pursue an ISO certification, Nadcap accreditation, or FDA clearance? If
One Quality System, Please The organization should have only one quality system. And, unless there is an overwhelming need, the organization should have one quality system certification or accreditation. For clarity, an overwhelming need would include ISO certification and a regulatory registration (e.g., FDA), not two separate ISO or ISO-equivalent certifications. This is true whether
Part 1: Whose Quality System Is It? Whose quality system is it? Who cares and why? The answer to the first question is, it is your quality system. How do you know it is yours? With no pun intended, the documents probably include your company’s letterhead or logo. And, whether it was developed in-house and
