Quality Management

World Quality Day 2021

The World Quality Day is celebrated annually on the second Thursday in November ...

QOE @ XIII Congreso Internacional de Calidad y IV de Ca...

Paulo Sampaio, Coordinator of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational E...

QOE @ Jornadas de Engenharia e Gestão Industrial ‘21

Pedro Domingues, PhD, Senior Researcher of the Research Group on Quality and Org...

André M. Carvalho distinguished as Rising Star 2021 by ASQ

 André M. Carvalho, Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado a...

QOE @ Excellence Through Quality webinar

André M. Carvalho, Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado an...

QOE @ FestQuali 2021

Cátia Pinto, PhD student and member of the Research Group on Quality and Organiz...

QOE @ 45.º Colóquio da Qualidade

The Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE) was represe...

QOE @ CAQ Symposium

Paulo Sampaio, Coordinator of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational E...

QOE @ IEEM2021

The Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE) was represe...

Yasmin Martins at RG-QOE as Visiting PhD Student

Yasmin Martins was a Visiting PhD Student at the Research Group on Quality and O...

Raíssa Heringer awarded with the ASQ Student Branch UMi...

Raíssa Heringer, Research Afiliate member of the Research Group on Quality and O...

Pedro Domingues @ Cracow University of Economics, Poland

Pedro Domingues, PhD, Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Org...

Paulo Sampaio @ EOQ-ASQ-ASQE Webinar

Paulo Sampaio, Coordinator of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational E...

Pedro Domingues @ University of Gabes, Tunisie

Pedro Domingues, PhD, Senior Researcher of the Research Group on Quality and Org...

Presentation of QOE PhD student in the 2022 DPISE workshop

The Doctoral Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering (DPISE) Workshop took...

Pedro Domingues @ Universidad de Monterrey - UDEM, Mexico

Pedro Domingues, PhD Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Orga...

Paulo Sampaio @ FMH Seminar

Paulo Sampaio, Coordinator of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational E...

RG-QOE organized the 5th International Conference on Qu...

The fifth edition of the International Conference on Quality Engineering and Man...

Sofia Barbosa Pereira @ Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL)

Sofia Barbosa Pereira, PhD Student at the Research Group on Quality and Organiza...

Pedro Domingues awarded with Sustainability 2020 Best P...

Pedro Domingues, PhD Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Orga...

Pedro Domingues @ Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Pedro Domingues, PhD, Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Org...

QOE @ Erasmus+ project STEAMigPOWER

Sofia Barbosa Pereira, PhD Student at the Research Group on Quality and Organiza...

MSc Dissertation Examination @ RG-QOE

Simone Moraes, member of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excell...

A common weakness in ISO 9001 training

Disclaimer: I call it a 'common' weakness but, in all honesty, I have no evidenc...

DO NOT BLAME THIS ON HUMAN ERROR !!!

"We're working proactively to address this as quickly as possible."  Canadian...

Perfect System Design

If you don't like the results, don't blame the people - change the system. As...

How to Reduce Costs

In the words of the master, W. E. Deming: Image credit: www.azquotes.com You ...

The WRONG Reason to Get ISO 9001:2015 Certification

Yes - This is the wrong reason because if this is what is driving your organisat...

6-Sigma DMAIC - What Happens Before Define?

A prerequisite of any successful 6-Sigma DMAIC project is that the project be...

People Who Never Succeed at Work

9 Types of People Who Never Succeed at Work An insightful article by Dr. Travis...

How do you measure effectiveness of actions addressing ...

I found the following ISO 9001:2015 question posted on LinkedIn: 9.3.2 e) Effec...

How can I become an auditor?

How can I become an auditor? I was asked this question by an environmental engi...

Does ISO 13485 imply that a medical device is proven ef...

I received the following question from someone who viewed my video What is ISO 1...

Blogging terms explained simply

Credit: https://www.facebook.com/WebdesignerDepot

Survivorship Bias

Published by David McRaney  in 2013, I found this article, Survivorship Bias, on...

You are part of the Internet of Things (IoT) - like it ...

From military operations to healthcare, children’s toys to appliances, anythin...

Conducting Internal Audits for ISO 9001:2015

I recently received an email from a newly trained lead auditor asking for advice...

Sick Notes. Really?

"Sick notes set up skewed incentives for everyone. For employers, they hin...

COVID-19 New Cases in Canada March 17/20

This chart is based on figures published today at 10:30 pm by CTV News: Track...

COVID-19 New Cases in Canada as of 20-Mar-2020

This is not good The curve is becoming more perpendicular, not flattening Dat...

COVID-19 Canada New Cases 21 Mar 2020

Two charts today The first uses the same format as yesterday, but as at today ac...

COVID-19 Mortality: Days to Double

With the gross deficiency of testing in Canada, it strikes me that no numbers ha...

A Glimmer of Hope for Canada

Given that deaths lag new infections by almost 3 weeks I am actually starting to...

Long-Term Care Homes Were Short-Staffed Before Coronavirus

There is so much more to improving quality than increasing inspections - and i...

COVID-19 Deaths/Day Canada as at 29 Apr '20

Remember that deaths trail new infections by 2 to 3 weeks. From Data published...

COVID-19 Canada - Whither Ontario?

x Data: CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/tracking-every-case...

What if…drug patents were scrapped? by Husna Rizvi

Husna Rizvi writes in New Internationalist... In 1955, virologist Jona...

Challenge the Intuitively Obvious

The Challenger     (Image credit https://blog.historicenvironment.scot) We a...

Rapport Leadership Training

Rapport leadership training involves remembering people, utilizing active listen...

Brainstorming Method

Learn the brainstorming process steps, guidelines and multivoting

FMEA

FMEA helps identify Risks within your organizaion. Based on the FMEA data you ca...

Tree Diagram

Review our tree diagram desciption, use, construction, and an example.

What is Continuous Improvement?

We answer the question, "What is continuous improvement". Quality Assurance Solu...

Swimlane diagram

Described very well in The Basics of Process Mapping - 2nd Ed. - by Robert Damel...

How much does ISO 45001 certification cost?

Costs associated with implementing an ISO 45001 management system, purchasing st...

Who can Implement ISO 14001?

Contrary to popular belief, the ISO 14001 Environment Management System is not l...

Requirement for ISO 9001 certification

These industries and businesses either operate hardware processes to bring value...

5s Implementation in the Office

Supporting steps for 5s implementation in the office

5 Why Problem Solving

Learn 5 why problem solving and how this connects to 8D problem solving. See how...

Learn lean 5S best practices.

This page describes lean 5S best practices which includes 5S housekeeping, 5S ch...

5S Visual Management

5S visual management is defined as an improvement process originated by the Japa...

7 Wastes of Lean

Learn the 7 Wastes of Lean with this article.

The 7 Wastes of Lean

Learn the 7 wastes of Lean, the Tim Wood acronym, and how they affect your compa...

Learn 8D Eight Disciplines!

Learn the 8D Eight Disciplines, see it in action, and apply global 8D software t...

Discusses 8D Problem Solving Details and 8D Reports.

Review this for detail information on 8D problem solving. This article discusses...

Software Investment and Proven Methods of Maximizing Yo...

Quality Assurance Solutions shares some tried-and-tested methods on how to get t...

Document Control Starts with Well Define Procedures

The vast majority of people like to take pride in their work. And so it is best...

The 7 Wastes Walk

Learn how to conduct the 7 wastes walk to eliminate the 7 or 8 wastes during lea...

Your 5S Project and Using PDCA Complete

Tracking all events for your your 5S project can be time consuming and confusing...

Tips to Reverse Delay within Your Business.

To improve project delays, you need to take action to reverse delay and eliminta...

Project Management Methodology

Page descrubes the phases of project management methodology and the importance o...

Kanban Simplified

Kanban is a Japanese word that means card or signal. This is an important tool f...

Business Process Map

Get Real About Your Business Process Map. If You Really Want To Improve Here are...

Small Business Management Consulting

Learn about a special tool, PDCA Complete, for small business management consult...

Productivity Improvement Tips

Productivity improvement tips. See how auditing, CCC, BCS, Workflows and PDCA Co...

Business Performance Software and Tips to Improving

Keys to using business performance software to improve your company's efficency ...

Business Meeting Agenda Format

Review how to drive business meetings with this business meeting agenda format. ...

Types of Marketing Strategy

How to use different types of marketing strategy to benefit your business.

The Interaction Process Analysis and Process Improvement

Examine the key elements of interaction process analysis flow which is a key pro...

Learn CCC Results and CCC Definition

Do you know the CCC result method and defintion? Another great tool that drives ...

How to Survive a Pandemic

How to survive a pandemic, tips for small businesses

Quality Audit Checklist is Necessary for QA Audits

The quality audit checklist is a key element of the quality audit. Quality audit...

ISO 9001 2015 QMS Implementation Tips

Implementing ISO 9001 2015 QMS Key Tips and Help

Free Time Management Tips

Free time management tips. Explore 10 key elements which focuses on organizing, ...

What is a Financial Projection

What is a financial projection? It's a forecast of your organization’s fiscal fu...

Lean vs Agile

Lean vs Agile: Which process methodology is best for your industry?

Community Driven Business

Community driven businesses are perfect for new entrepreneurs because there are ...

Certificate of Complaince

Dear collaques, I want to ask a question for certificate of complaince. I know ...

ESD Test sign in log not followed for 2 weeks because o...

Hello, I am new to this site and have a situation that I just found out about. ...

Quantitative Force Field Analysis

Background: Force-Field Analysis is a well-known, but little used, quality manag...

Integration testing vs system management

Hi everyone, I have been working as QA engineer for a few years now, but recentl...

Sample selection for inspection

Hello, This is regarding the incoming sampling inspection. We use ISO 2859 tabl...

Out of Box Software Validation

For a software system that is used out of the box, no alterations (like office 3...

How to Track Gauge Pins

Hi everyone I want to know if there is a way, to track gauge pins, the company ...

In Veeva QMS, use deviations module or lab investigatio...

Hello, Just trying to get a pulse of how the industry handles lab investigation...

How best to convince top managemnt that there is cost i...

Allow QM people view management accounts Explore where most spending goes Determ...

Starting a QA program for Service Quality

In my organization, we do not have any standardize process of operation in all o...

Preparation for Internal / external audit

Dear all, I would like to ask how to prepare the agenda for an audit, what kind...

Starting a Quality Management Department

Hello to everyone with a passion to always improve and learn in life and busines...

Do federal agencies distinguish between CMMI services o...

I’ve been a CMMI Lead Appraiser for over twelve years, have done hundreds of ap...

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