Inside Quality Digest Live for July 6, 2018
In our July 6, 2018, episode of QDL, we discuss distributed manufacturing, and distributed management.
In our July 6, 2018, episode of QDL, we discuss distributed manufacturing, and distributed management.
Business partnerships are nothing new. Partnerships that result in leaner manufacturing processes, more consistent quality, and lower manufacturing costs—that is worth talking about.
Quality management systems (QMS) have become strategic components that touch more and more of the business today.
The digital age is well underway, and that accounts for every aspect of business.
During the June 1, 2018, episode of QDL, we presented a special look at the parameters of relations between the United States and China, from the shifting perspectives of culture, trade, and history.
What a week. On April 30, 2018, there were top-level delegations from two disciplines: In Beijing the Chinese hosted a cabinet-level delegation of U.S. trade representatives; and in Seattle, the ASQ hosted the Sino-U.S.
Tensions are escalating between China and the United States over trade. The Chinese government has announced retaliatory measures on a range of U.S.
In part one of this article, we discussed the origins of the United States and China, and how their relationship began to emerge.
In part one we saw that China has made great strides in terms of product quality, notably in the tech sector. But it still has a long way to go in other products.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Japanese products were synonymous with cheaply made. Anyone over the age of 50 probably remembers cheap Japanese transistor radios when they were a kid. We all believed, in the day, that the more transistors a radio had, the better.
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