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"Stop production so that production never has to stop" is a Toyota proverb. The front end of the saying refers to production operators having a responsibility to stop a production line if they see a ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

Quality management systems are really just about one thing: quality. But assuring quality in your products and services has a nice ripple effect of increasing customer satisfaction and keeping them ...

General Manager at iObeya overseeing North American operations. Former 15-year Cisco exec and a certified SAFe (Scaled Agile) consultant. A research report commissioned by 3M Corp. found that visual ...

Total Quality Management is a formal management style premised on the notion that measurement of a finished product or project is insufficient to ensure quality. Instead, each process necessary for ...

Firms will need to learn from mistakes, fine-tune systems, and adapt to new ways of thinking about quality. Right-size your quality management documentation for SQMS No. 1 Optimize quality management ...

Many companies spend millions of dollars developing safe work methods, training staff in safe procedures, and purchasing safety equipment. But regardless of the amount of time and money that is ...

DQM is becoming a core capability for organizations that need to make better decisions with data. What are the responsibilities of different roles in DQM? Image: WrightStudio/Adobe Stock Data quality ...