Does Quality equal Manufacturing and Engineering Only?

Is your company suffering from Lost Opportunities in Cost Savings and Revenue Growth? Currently (and in the past), Companies focus their Quality efforts in Manufacturing and Engineering.  Certainly this makes sense in that you must design and produce good products (and services) in order to generate revenue and profit.  But what about the rest of the organization – Purchasing, Legal, Sales, Marketing, HR? Is Quality just for Manufacturing and Engineering, and in many cases, only a select few within these functions, or are there reasons to broaden the focus of Quality to include more of the organization?  The direct answer is YES.  By broadening the reach of quality to involve all functions within an organization, or an enterprise wide [...]

Case Study Robust Engineering: Robust Engineering Saves Millions For Tier 1 Automotive Supplier

Robust Engineering saves millions for Tier 1 automotive supplier Practice / Industry: Automotive Challenge:A multi-billion dollar Tier 1 automotive supplier was struggling with poor product quality and reliability. Automotive OEM customers were not confident that the supplier could meet their stringent quality requirements. The company recognized that poor quality - redesign, returns, warranty, cancellation of contracts - were costing them several million dollars. The company leadership decided to focus on Engineering. They realized that if quality is designed into a product or a process, costs and warranty will be reduced. ASI Solution:The company selected ASI-CG as its partner to achieve the new mission. ASI-CG and engineers within the company collaborated on an extensive review of the company's entire engineering process [...]