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It’s Not Easy Being a Best-in-Class Medical Device Manufacturer
Figure 1: The top six areas of opportunity to become an "Advancer" Medical Device Manufacturer Over the past six months I have had the pleasure to work with Julie Fraser and the Cambashi team as a...
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Tightening the Continuous Improvement Loop
“A picture is worth a thousand words” - Napoleon Bonaparte (source) This adage originated during a simpler time when computers, software and modern manufacturing processes didn’t exist. Yet today it...
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A Lifecycle Perspective on Product Quality
Quality is one of the most important characteristics of products today. Companies spend a great deal of time and effort in an attempt to build quality products. No discussion by a CEO of a product...
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E-Pedigree, Serialization and the Medical Device Industry: Delay or Embrace?
California’s e-Pedigree law – the requirement that a package be traced as it’s aggregated into cases and pallets for shipment throughout the supply chain – is set to take effect in January 2015....
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3 Reasons Why Innovative Companies Demand Innovative Software Partners
Over the past two decades I have had the opportunity to work with many great people at many great manufacturing companies. As we collect the knowledge that spans our careers, patterns start to become...
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Preventing Recalls through Real-time Quality Control
Product Recall. Just hearing the words is enough to make manufacturers nervous – and rightfully so. Recalls cost companies billions of dollars each year. It often takes a business years to recover from...
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Manufacture Responsibly
Salmonella is the last thing anyone should be thinking about when making a peanut butter sandwich for their child’s school lunch. As consumers, we should always feel that the food we give our family is...
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Flavors of Quality Management
After analyzing a number of RFPs, participating in solution workshops and talking to manufacturing companies, I have noticed that the terms QMS and LIMS are often defined differently depending upon who...
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How Quickly Things Change
A decade or so ago, many American and European manufacturers were trying to figure out how to better compete in a global market. Executive boardroom discussions centered on finding ways to cut...
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Why a Process-based Approach to Manufacturing and Quality Management Makes Sense
Executives understand the value for adaptability and speed to effectively optimize processes across the value chain in a fast-paced and uncertain business environment. People, processes, and...
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Expanding the Relevance of Lean Manufacturing to Data
Lean Manufacturing principles yield proven results in operations management with direct benefits for customers. The implementation of Lean processes on the manufacturing floor is hardly new, yet it is...
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Supply Chain Capability vs. Capacity – What Is Best to Optimize?
I thought I would explore this topic for my post on the Manufacturing Transformation Blog. As a first step, I thought it might be helpful to first define these terms. I see supply chain capacity...
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5 Market Pressures Driving a Need for Greater Resilience in Manufacturing...
IDC Manufacturing Insights recently completed market research focused on executive decision making at manufacturing organizations. Pressure for more rapid product introductions, faster adaptation to...
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Increasing Quality Standards
Quality has taken on a whole new level of importance for manufacturers. The brand damage that resulted over the past few years due to low quality products has been substantial. With steadily increasing...
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Big Data without Context is Just a Big Mess
“Contextual Intelligence is the ability to understand the uniqueness of a person or circumstance and convert that understanding into an opportunity” Heavy Reading White Paper, June 2012 Big data is...
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How IT Disconnect Can Hurt Quality in Operations (and How to Fix It)
In today’s globally competitive environment, any good leader knows that a seamlessly integrated set of quality processes and data sources can facilitate the effective management of quality. Of course,...
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Utilize QMS Software to Ease International Regulatory Compliance
Managing quality levels within a regulated industry can always be a challenge. Without proper quality management, your business will run inefficiently and risk incurring penalties from failing to...
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Unlocking Best-in-class Quality Performance
I recently co-hosted a webinar with Kevin Prouty, Senior Vice President of Research at Aberdeen Group. Our presentation was on the topic of Quality, and what best-in-class manufacturers are now doing...
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6 Ways to get Smart and Cut Manufacturing Costs
When it comes to “modern” manufacturing intelligence, a lot has changed in recent years. Manufacturing issues have only grown more complex, while the new technologies that have evolved to meet these...
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Similarities of Being a CEO and Implementing a Manufacturing IT Project
I just read an interesting white paper “In the Firing Line: The impact of project and portfolio performance on the CEO” where it was pointed out how accountable CEOs are for performance. This should...
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