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Webinar replay. Quality control: the benefits of progressive control
21 août 2023French speaking. Target audience: Quality manager, production manager, workshop manager Would you like to : D ...
Webinar replay: How to choose your industrial performance indicators
11 octobre 2022French speaking. You are : Manager, production manager, project manager. You wish to : Synthesise your produ ...
Webinar replay: Digitalising your industrial processes… Why? How?
25 mai 2022French speaking. You are : Manager, production manager, project manager. You wish to : Taking the first step ...
Skills Matrix
11 février 2022What are the benefits of managing shopfloor skills & competencies? Clearly there are regulatory requirement ...
The Cost of Non-Quality
25 mai 2021Do you have any idea what Non-Quality costs your company? If so, you are now certainly convinced of the need to ...
Webinar replay: Improve supplier acceptance control with MES (Part 2)
5 mai 2021French speaking. Target audience: CEO, buyer, quality manager In this second part, we explain how you can impr ...
Fat finger syndrome in operators: myth or reality?
20 avril 2021This title is deliberately provocative. The aim is to put an end once and for all to the old idea that operator ...
Webinar Replay: Improve supplier acceptance control with MES (Part 1)
15 avril 2021French speaking. Target audience: CEO, buyer, quality manager In this webinar, we explain how you can improve y ...
Webinar Replay: SMEs, ETI, your workshop will be digitised in 2021! Myth or reality?
12 avril 2021English speaking. « SME : digitize your workshop in 2021! Is it achievable? » You’ve heard of Indust ...
10 key ideas to make a (completely) useless project specification
2 décembre 2020It is well known that companies can afford to spend their time without counting. Abundance of resources, absenc ...
FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11, an imperative for healthcare industries
30 octobre 202021 CFR Part 11 is a regulation concerning the use of electronic documents and signatures. Its respect has becom ...
Big Data and MES, what are the challenges for the industry of the future?
12 septembre 20201/ What is Big Data? Before talking about Big Data, it is important to know that today’s m ...
Webinar Replay: How to obtain capable processes through SPC?
2 septembre 2020French speaking. Target audience: quality, production, control, metrology, management Our webinar series conti ...
(3/3) Business recovery: some rules for quality control
18 août 2020Barrier gestures in the face of Non-Conformities. 6 good quality control practices to (re)discover. Before any ...
(2/3) Business recovery: some rules for quality control
18 juillet 2020Quality indicators: 5 ideas for making the best use of them at the moment. Managing production through quality ...
(1/3) Business recovery: some rules for quality control
4 juin 2020Vigilance, good practices and lessons learned for the concerned quality manager. The post-confinement economic ...
Implementation of an MES solution
11 mai 2020Setting up an MES project requires essential preparatory work that should not be neglected. Implementation of a ...
Reduce your non-conformities thanks to MES
7 avril 2020Non-conformity, defect, rejection, anomaly… whatever the name, it’s always a production nightmare. ...
The MES : a tool for SMEs?
5 mars 2020When we talk about manufacturing execution systems (MES), we often imagine a heavy tool, requiring long and lab ...
Industry 4.0 vs Industry of the Future?
21 février 2020Industry 4.0 is a buzzword: technical publications, research projects, real deployments are multiplying through ...
Is SPC compatible with 100% inspection?
7 janvier 2020Various articles published here have already explained the concept of SPC (Statistical Process Control) and its ...
MES and SPC: a valuable cooperation
5 décembre 2019By definition, the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) must fulfil 11 functions, including Quality Management, ...
Tracking Card vs. working instruction
6 novembre 2019The documents present in the production workshops Various types of documents are present on the production floo ...
SPC alarms (or alerts)
14 octobre 2019The ultimate goal of a Statistical Process Control project is to obtain relevant SPC alarms (or alerts), enabli ...
What is SPC?
13 août 2019Before going into detail, let’s look at what the acronym SPC stands for. And what is SPC software? Some t ...
What is Incoming Quality Control?
12 juillet 2019This article explains what incoming quality control is, and how best to use it to gain quality. What is the pur ...
Gage R&R and Measurement Variation
12 juin 2019One of the bases (theoretical and practical) of SPC is to understand and reduce sources of process variation kn ...
What is inertial tolerancing?
11 mai 2019In this article, we will discuss the concept of inertial tolerancing. We will see how this way of tolerancing a ...
Process Planning and Execution on the Shop Floor
11 février 2019Is your manufacturing process really clear for operators? How can you ensure operators follow the correct manuf ...
SPC after the « project » Stage
11 janvier 2019How and when to make the transition from the project mode of the SPC approach to its daily use? Who should take ...
Some principles of reception control
11 décembre 2018This article describes some principles of reception control and answers the following questions: What is recep ...
Qualaxy Process, Paperless Workshop!
11 novembre 2018The Paperless workshop! The ultimate goal (or dream) for any production manager! But, is it possible or even de ...
Common SPC Myths
11 octobre 2018In this article, we will briefly discuss some of the commonly held misconceptions about SPC. In every manufactu ...
Process Control of Operator Dependent Processes
11 septembre 2018The CARAIBE project is a consortium led by Safran Helicopter Engines (formerly Turbomeca) and includes partners ...
SPC and capability analysis of multi-head processes
11 août 2018Multi-head processes are a common means of production that enable several parts to be produced in a single proc ...
Defect Map – an attributive control introducing the notion of fault location (2/2)
11 juillet 2018Attributive control of aspect defects in an SPC approach is done using the classical attribute tracking charts ...
SPC monitoring of characteristics by Attribute [1/2]
11 juin 2018Attribute-based inspection is used whenever a part cannot be characterised by a number or a dimension. The resu ...
Video Expert opinion about industriy 4.0
12 mars 2018This issue of Experts Talk is dedicated to Industry 4.0. The expert’s insight with Corinne Clesse, CEO an ...
Starting a SPC Project [4/4]
11 mars 2018OK, this will be the final part of this series where we have looked at some of the key things you need to consi ...
Starting a SPC Project [3/4]
10 février 2018During part 2 of this short series I highlighted the importance of having a structured process to ensure the su ...
Starting a SPC Project [2/4]
10 janvier 2018Todays blog follows on from part 1 where I introduced some of the challenges which you might face when trying t ...
Starting a SPC Project [1/4]
10 décembre 2017In this post I would like to deal with what is probably the biggest hurdle for most engineers when trying to i ...
Reception Control vs SPC?
10 novembre 2017In this article, we will discuss two concepts in the field of Quality: incoming inspection and SPC. What links ...
Is my Cpk good?
10 octobre 2017The Cpk is a process capability indicator that measures the deviation from the average. Is a Cpk (or Ppk) good, ...
Start with the SPC – What maturity does it take?
10 septembre 2017« Are we ready to start with SPC? » This question often arises when companies want to use SPC software but ...