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Component Quality – Design- Supplier Quality Management -Receiving inspection

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Component Quality – Design- Supplier Quality Management -Receiving inspection   After working on supplier Quality management , I had encounter situation . I have customer whose id technology leader 10 year old well established start up . We have supplier with known history about five year old organization, well on the contrary suppler of the supplier   identity unknown making m2.5   screw . Had screw up on head chamfer angle. Infesting thing is customer   expect us somebody who assembled his product to inspect these screw or rather screen dimensionally Here my take is 1.       first design rule one suppose to use standard spares like screw from established name off the self , if need customization use know /establish spare manufactures 2.       emphasis on supplier take ownership of what he supply , supplier selection/Process qualification/ PPPAP/APQP/FAI 3.       we are in 20 th ...

Inventory is money- Part-I

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Inventory is money- Part-I   Inventory is Money, when it is converted into sales and added to revenue & profit. When it is slow/ non-moving it mostly adds to losses as it could be non-confirming / Obsolete or Excess or it will affect operation effectiveness. It is Money in both cases, ideally one does not want inventory at any stage. Let’s look at how to eliminate non-moving / slow moving /obsolete/ excess inventory. The process of Inventory Management starts with customer forecast or Order. Well there are some lucky Contract Manufactures who able to   move non confirming inventory to customers and report sales for the quarter where the product yield is low & customers have gross margin of 47 % . Mostly issues are not related to assembly process. But that is a story of very lucky contractors. But that too has some other side effect.   I Bill Of Material ( BOM ) Management a.      It starts with Item Master set up , ·   ...