5 Steps to Boost Your Test Automation Efforts!

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, test automation has become a crucial component of ensuring the quality and reliability of applications. However, maximizing the benefits of test automation requires a systematic and strategic approach.

In this article, we will explore five essential steps that can significantly boost your test automation efforts, leading to improved efficiency, effectiveness, and overall software testing excellence. Let’s dive in!

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What it Currently Takes to Guarantee End Users the Quality and Integrity of Your Products!

With an increasingly competitive and oversaturated market where marketing such as social media influence weighs heavily on a product’s success or failure, how do you demonstrate to your prospective customers that your product will genuinely ease their lives and fix their problems, bringing a plus of value that will make their time and money spent worth the efforts?

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How to Look After Your 3D Printer!

There are a lot of things that you need to consider if you are thinking about getting a 3D printer. At the very top of that list is how you are going to look after your 3D printer.

Of course, you should be getting a professional in to look at it every so often, but the real maintenance comes from the level of care you give it before and after each use. 

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7 Useful Tips for Industrial Machine Maintenance!

Running a manufacturing plant or factory requires a lot of maintenance and upkeep. Industrial machines are essential components in the production process, which means they must be kept in good working condition. Regular industrial machine maintenance is the key to running these machines smoothly and minimizing downtime.

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7 Ways to Improve Quality Control in Food Manufacturing!

When you’re a food and beverage manufacturer, there’s no business more serious than quality control. Consumer safety and quality control go hand-in-hand for the food industry in a way that most other industries don’t have to deal with.

You’re working with the food that people put on their tables and feed to their families. That means that the right way is the one and only way to do it. 

Whether you’re a new business developing your quality control procedures or it’s time for a revamp, it’s crucial to keep up with the latest developments in food and beverage quality control.

By following these seven principles, you can help ensure that your practices are up-to-date, safe, sanitary and profitable. 

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Sam Samadi, Head of Global Quality/Compliance at Casper!

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe.  As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. This interview is with Sam Samadi, Head of Global Quality and Compliance at Casper.

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Value Stream Mapping the Future State Process!

Unchaining Change Leadership

We had completed value stream mapping the current state processes across some very significant business processes in the company.  It took a fair amount of time even though we had the active involvement of subject matter experts and leaders from every functional organization.

When all was said and done the current state involved hundreds of process steps, almost 200 pain points, and dozens of iterative, repetitive loops.  The company was just being introduced to Lean process improvement techniques.  And as challenging as it was to reach a common understanding of what the current processes were the difficult part was about to start.

How were we going to define and map the Future State process?

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Made in America vs. Assembled in America – Defining Terms!

When a product proudly proclaims it is “Made in the USA” on its packaging, a lot of consumers feel confident and happy about the decision of choosing it. Products made in America are helping keep jobs in the country, minimizing their carbon footprint and proclaiming their national pride.

While this label is fairly clear, a second claim, “Assembled in America,” is a bit vaguer.

What exactly is the difference between these two labels?

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The Role of Over-Discharge Protection in Extending Lithium Battery Lifespan!

In an increasingly connected and digitized world, lithium-ion batteries have become the backbone of modern technology. They power our smartphones, laptops, electric vehicles, and even provide energy storage solutions for renewable energy sources.

The longevity of the lithium battery is a topic of great importance, as it directly impacts not only the performance of our devices but also environmental sustainability and economic efficiency.

This article delves into the crucial role of over-discharge protection in extending the lifespan of lithium batteries.

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Product Management KPIs!

KPIs, KPIs, KPIs, — there’s been a lot of talk about KPIs lately. To be honest, people have been talking about KPIs for a long time, especially around marketing, sales, and some R&D (though the latest mostly speak about Product Management KPIs but don’t measure it well enough IMO — but that’s for another article).

The difference today, I think, is that now everyone is speaking about it. I guess COVID19 put the importance of KPIs into perspective — people are working remotely and it’s harder to understand what is being done.

So now, whether you measure the individual, the team or the company, how well you are doing should be measured in objective KPIs.

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6 Tips to Maintain Quality in Aerospace Manufacturing!

While the aerospace manufacturing industry may employ the same equipment and techniques as other manufacturing operations in producing parts for spacecraft and aircraft, it requires a significantly higher level of quality standards.

In fact, companies that want to become part of the industry must possess several certifications first. Getting certified will attest to the stringent quality management in place at each level of their manufacturing processes.

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Design in Quality First!

The Division I had just joined was enjoying great success in Sales and Development.  They had created a modular building block design for their products.  Simply there were over two dozen different building block designs which could be configured in innumerable combinations to create the end product.

Each building block was designed to be a low-cost item.  Based on the customer requirements and specifications the building blocks could be combined in varying quantities.  Then a custom outer case, with the appropriate inputs and outputs, would be created to house all of the building blocks, interconnected on a master mother board.

It sounded great on paper and on Powerpoint slides.  But what came next was an absolute nightmare.

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A Tale of Two Companies: Different Quality Management Beliefs!

Company 1

The CEO came in to my office carrying a product and said, “The label is off centre on this item.  It has a quality defect.”  I responded, “Is that actually a quality defect?  Quality is a measure of conformance to a standard, and we have no standards.”  The CEO didn’t quite understand the distinction.  Certainly the item was mis-labelled.  But there was absolutely no Quality management process in the company.

Company 2

I toured all of the company’s facilities around the globe.  It seemed like we had a tremendous amount of resource working on quality.  But they were spending 100% of their time on inspection.  A report subsequently  confirmed my concerns.  Over 10% of our entire direct workforce was spending the vast majority of their time doing 100% inspection.   We had a Quality management system but it’s only principle was to inspect in quality.

Whichever the situation was, proper Quality management objectives required something to change in both cases!

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How to Improve Output Quality in Your Business!

Any devoted business owner will tell you that they have a commitment to quality, but sometimes simply being devoted to excellence is not enough.

Challenges will occur over time, and this is why it is important to put measures in place to ensure you are able to continue to deliver the highest output quality no matter what.

This guide is here to help you learn the best ways to improve your output quality. 

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The Single Point of Failure in Supply Chain – Baby Formula!

There are over 3.5 million births in the United States every year. That is a lot of babies who need baby formula.

With such a large number of births you would expect that there would be a steady, well established industry supporting the supply of all needs for new mothers, babies and their families.

Yet in mid 2022 there is a shortage of baby formula. This certainly is completely unacceptable. So how is that possible?

Apparently there is a single point of failure in the baby formula Supply Chain!

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