Throughout the years, many great business and manufacturing thinkers have brought us quality quotes that, while short and to the point, impacted people’s thinking about quality management. Below, we’ve presented ten quality quotes that we think are worth your...
The consequences of poor quality management can be devastating to consumer product companies. From one-star reviews to product recalls and business failure, you could be in for a world of hurt if you don’t put the proper measures in place. Many less-experienced...
Visiting a factory can be a worthwhile investment of your time, money, and energy, and it can help you catch potential issues with a new supplier and move projects forward more quickly. At the moment, however, the pandemic is making travel to Asian countries quite...
Are you building a new consumer brand and putting your products out into the market? If your goods fail to meet consumer expectations, it can lead to poor reviews, reduced sales, and even business failure. To avoid disastrous product quality issues, you need to have a...
One of the main objectives for any business is to maximize profits. While maintaining a healthy balance sheet depends on a combination of factors, one of the most important for consumer brands is product quality. If you sell high-quality products consistently, your...
To manage product quality as effectively as possible, you need to have a quality management system in place. An effective quality system helps ensure that each time your products ship, you can be confident that they will be free from excessive defects. When putting...
As a consumer product importer, you may be conducting third-party inspections to verify product quality. It’s important to understand, though, that the act of inspecting, on its own, is not enough. Take it from 20th-century quality guru W. Edwards Deming. In his book,...
Since the 1990s, a large percentage of global manufacturing has moved to developing economies, helping companies in the already developed world accomplish their goal of reducing production costs. However, since that time, many companies have faced issues with their...
In manufacturing, both ethics and quality come into play in important ways. But, it’s important to be able to differentiate the two. They are intimately related to each other, as arises from three main factors: moral attitudes as a result of consciousness or...
Good manufacturing practices (GMP) are the practices required in order to conform to guidelines recommended by agencies that control authorization and licensing for manufacture and sale of food, drug products, and active pharmaceutical products (typically). These...
