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   <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:52:11 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 7, Training a team leader for Quality group</title>
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    <description>What does a Team Leader of the Quality group need to know?</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:52:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 28, AHU for Beta Lactam Production</title>
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    <description>What is the proper type of Air Handling Unit required to Beta Lactam production? Use 100% fresh air system OR Recirculation system? If the recirculation</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 15:18:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 13, Six Sigma Enough?</title>
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    <description>The are basic statistical tools like six sigma, TPS, Lean enough to eliminate defects? </description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 9, Is it applicable in service sector?</title>
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    <description>In a manufacturing sector ,we can demarkate diiferent types of costs .How to make it applicable in a service organisation ?  What are the different types</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:06:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 2, Quality A B C </title>
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    <description>I want start with A B C quality to understand all things about it. So what should I do, from where shall I begin?</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:55:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 10, Can I have a sample presentation or report on cost of quality calculations?</title>
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    <description>Can you share a sample report or computation presentation on Calculating Quality Cost? Just can't figure this out but I wanted to use this in our plant</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:02:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 5,  Total Quality</title>
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    <description>a writer on quality has proposed a statement that quality is the only issue for organisational survival.discuss this statement in the light of the challenges</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:45:22 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mar 26, HSE Advisor - Offshore drilling</title>
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    <description>Management think they don't need to change, after all why change when they have got away without all that expense for training and inspections for the</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:07:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mar 26, ITIL vs ISO 9001</title>
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    <description>I am a QA Team Leader at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.  Our team was formed 2 years ago - and so far, I was developing</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:06:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mar 22, Telecoms today - acceptable sampling rate</title>
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    <description>what is the universal (or telecom industry) acceptable sampling rate for inspection? say, quality inspection for all newly installed broadband data lines</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mar 14, Conflict Management</title>
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    <description>How does conflict management affect company productivity?</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:00:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mar 11, How to use PERT</title>
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    <description>How do I differenciate between the Activity on Arrow and Activity on Nodes when using the PERK?  How do I construct the Activity on Arrow and Activity</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:47:22 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Feb 21, Six Sigma Certification</title>
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    <description>I have over twenty years experience in Quality Control. I need a Six Sigma Certification to advance my career. I know the methods and have been doing high</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:55:19 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Feb 4, Example of lean managment at Hospital where the tools used ?</title>
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    <description>Im planning to run a workshop for lean managment at my private time. What Im looking for is a real comprehensive example for a lean managment where all</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:38:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 31, HR Dept. Benefits From 5S?</title>
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    <description>HOW THE HR DEPT. WOULD BE BENEFITED FROM 5 S THEORY</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:15:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 29, Recognizing a Good Supplier</title>
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    <description>Hi, Are there any negative implications in recognising a suppier who consistantly supplies good quality merchandise.The recognition will be in the form</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:42:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 1, Equipment Breakdown and Cost of Quality</title>
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    <description>Hi I want to calculate cost of equipment breakdown, but I have a problem. In some of our workstations there are over capacity. Thus breakdown can't affect</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:05:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 28, Cost of quality Affect</title>
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    <description>How the cost of quality will affect if final product does not achive the predefined specs.? How can we calculate this </description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:17:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 26, Business Improvement &#x26; efficiency Manager</title>
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    <description>From my experience, usually bosses don't want to go through a long analytical report to see the core problem and to see what kind of action had been taken</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:35:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 12, The Role of Quality Assurance in the organisation</title>
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    <description>To what extent can a Q.A decision be circumvated? or who may vito a Q.A. decision in the company hierachy</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:16:35 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 12, Quality Awareness </title>
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    <description>We would like to implement quality awareness to our client we are a ISO 9001.2008 certified organisation where do you start</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:15:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 11, AQAP 2110 Assistance</title>
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    <description>I am currently busy with a quality plan for AQAP 2110 and need assistance. We are certified to ISO 9001: 2008. Produce products for defence forces.  Assistance</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:09:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Dec 6, Instituting a good Business and Quality management program</title>
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    <description>I am working with small businesses, specifically machine shops in the Mid-Willamette VAlley in Oregon. I an finding these businesess are looking to incorporate</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Nov 28, Complaint or Not a Complaint</title>
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    <description>One of my supplier sent me a Finished Good that created a functional problem after it was assembled . When I complained to supplier regarding the defective</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:14:34 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 24, Sampling Plans</title>
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    <description>What are the advantages of different kinds of sampling?  Which one is universal? On what basis preference is to be given? Does sampling plan depend on</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:03:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 22, ISO 9001:2008 8.2.1 Customer Satisfaction</title>
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    <description>Do you have any suggestion on what method to use regarding the customer perception requirement of this clause?  'As one of the measurements of the performance</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:31:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 22, What use are Quality Policy &#x26; Quality Objectives?</title>
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    <description>We all believe in quality, committed to it when we implement ISO 9001:2008 quality management system. But many managers find it difficult to ascertain</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 17, AS9100 verbage</title>
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    <description>in our pre-assesment, our auditor said when changing the verbage over in our current manuals, procedures, etc..that it was not required to put rev C after</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:40:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 10, Feedback on Quadra-Check systems for optical comparators</title>
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    <description>We are looking at purchasing an optical comparator and are looking between a suburban tool Master View with either the Quadra-Check 200 systemor the MV-DRO2</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:51:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 10, Self Manufactured Tools</title>
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    <description>Hi Robert,  I am seeking clear advice on the following issue:  “This is in reference to the use of hand (self) made tools at an automotive maintenance</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:49:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 5, Data analysis of uneven behaviour of process</title>
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    <description>I have a machine having different attribute, every time i have found different results, i have collect some data to analyze but due to uneven behavoiur</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:43:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Oct 3,  Senior consultant ,quality</title>
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    <description>The CEO is normally busy and he advises us to proceed and implement and at the same time he refrains from calling the process head and asks him to implement.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sep 25, Sampling cost </title>
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    <description>1. during analysis of a product samples collected from process, also during packing controlled samples are also collected. as both samples are recycled</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:25:28 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sep 23, How to do a capability study</title>
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    <description>This is the scenario: We need to do a capability study on an over all length of a 9 diameter plate .250 thick +/- .005. If you measure in different spots</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:11:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Sep 11, Regarding CMMI certification renewal process</title>
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    <description>Hi, I am Assistant Team lead in my company. Our company was CMMi Level-3 certified in Aug'08 and we have staged representaion certificate for the same.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:45:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aug 31, Quality control for water bottling comapny </title>
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    <description>Hello!! we are a new water bottling comapny and would like to know what could be the different steps for us to implement a quality control department and</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:33:42 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jul 18, Relation between cost elements</title>
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    <description>How we can select a cost of quality improvement project with focus on relation between cost of quality factors/elements???  which MADM method we can use????</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jul 12, How improve my product's Quality?</title>
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    <description>Hello Sir  I m Working at Stainless steel company as a Manager..How do I Improve my Products's Quality??</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:38:52 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jul 5, VDA - Process Audit</title>
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    <description>I Just heared that the German Standard VDA - for Process Audit is one of the Best standard and describes in detail about the activities. Any body can support</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:28:08 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jul 5, 14 steps proposed by Oakland 1993:425 for planning the implementation of TQM</title>
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    <link>http://www.bexcellence.org/-14-steps-proposed-by-oakland-1993425-for-planning-the-implementation-of-tqm.html</link>
    <description>What are the detailed 14 steps proposed by Oakland for planning the implementation of TQM</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:27:20 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 26, What is the main responsibility of Quality and safety engineer?</title>
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    <description>I need to know the responsibility of quality and safety engineer(QHSE). please reply on this in simple explanation</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 25, What is a process?</title>
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    <description>What are the EFQM processes   how can i writ the EFQM the good processes idea.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jun 15, How to measure TQM?</title>
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    <description>Explain the variety of ways in which TQM can be measured within an oraganisation</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:24:09 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 23, Mohan awanshiSury</title>
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    <description>Exactly same from my heart.Top management always be financial trouble route cause is finanace problems i all organisation.  I am from japanees culuture</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 23, Internal Costs</title>
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    <description>I have seen a feature article in Quality Progress where an organization took credit for a multitude of cost and other savings.  But at the expense of other</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:23:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 10, How to implement service quality in a business</title>
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    <description>My question is regarding service quality, i have read the theory now i want to implement in my Hospitality Business, anyone with some ideas</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:06:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 25, QM philosophy in the USA today ?</title>
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    <description>What QM philosophy is more represented in the USA today </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:24:26 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 22, Lean Operation</title>
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    <description>In lean operation stock at best is describe as waste and stock at worse is regarded as evil.Dicuss</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:21:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 17, Construction Quality with Pictures </title>
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    <description>Dear Sir, i am anand shekhar presently working in siemens Ltd.(India) in construction quality, but I am facing problem, how to control the quality work</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:44:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 14, Appreciations !</title>
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    <description>I dont have question but i want to Appreciate you on giving all information in such a beautifull manner.  God bless you ..  Tahir  Sr. SQA Eng. Softech</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:09:36 GMT</pubDate>
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