October 15-17, 2024 at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida
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Tuesday Oct 15 9 AM — 5 PM
Wednesday Oct 16 9 AM — 5 PM
Thursday Oct 17 9 AM — 4 PM

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Orange County Convention Center

9800 International Drive
Orlando, Florida 32819

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North America's largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event heads to Orange County Convention Center in October 2024. FABTECH provides a convenient "one stop shop" venue where you can meet with world-class suppliers, see the latest industry products and developments, and find the tools to improve productivity, increase profits and discover new solutions to all of your metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing needs.

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Using a Built-In-Quality Approach

Lean Manufacturing Systems Diagram
By Joe Mazzeo on on
A company that has started a journey with lean manufacturing understands that an effective lean manufacturing system focuses on adding value to products and services, identifying and reducing waste, and improved support for workers across the organization.   A key element of any manufacturing organization’s strategy is to also achieve exceptional levels of product quality.  A well-implemented and managed Lean Manufacturing (LM) system will help to achieve this goal. A critical principle to achieving high-quality products and services is to: not accept; build; or ship a defect.  But how do organizations achieve this objective even in a LM environment?  Is there still a reliance on multiple layers of inspection and detection and containment of defects?  Or is the focus on having effective process controls in place and having them followed? The most efficient and effective way to guarantee high-quality performance is through the use of a concept called Built-In-Quality (BIQ).  BIQ is one of the five principles of Lean Manufacturing.  The other four principles are:
  •         Employee Engagement
  •         Standardization
  •         Short Lead time
  •         Continuous Improvement
BIQ, integrated with the other four principles of lean manufacturing,  defines the steps required for building quality into the manufacturing process.  BIQ allows an organization to move from the detection and containment of defects to preventing defects from ever being produced.  By migrating through each step of the BIQ process, an organization is able to increase its ability to build quality in station and lower the overall cost of quality by reducing the need for inspection and correction. With the application of BIQ concepts, the manufacturing organization takes an ever-increasing responsibility for achieving quality results through each step of the BIQ process.  In addition, to achieve increased levels of BIQ performance, greater engagement is required from other functions within a company such as product engineering, manufacturing engineering and purchasing.  The responsibility for BIQ becomes ‘enterprise-wide’.   Built-In-Quality ensures that everyone in the organization is engaged to achieve its quality and customer satisfaction goals. My talk at FABTECH 2016 in Las Vegas, on November 17th will explain the concept of BIQ and what is needed to achieve it in any organization.  And attendees will understand:
  • The basic principles of lean manufacturing
  • How the concept of Built-in-Quality fits within lean manufacturing
  • How to begin to assess a company’s current quality position
  • The methods and tools used with BIQ
  • How to implement a BIQ culture with leadership leading the pro
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