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A business man is cluelessly looking at a wall full of visualized key figures

26.03.24

Companies and Key Figures – a Love-Hate Relationship

Turnover, complaint rate, on-time delivery – key figures like these have become an integral part of modern (quality) management: After all, they make it possible to measure the quality of products and processes in a comprehensible manner and thus to continuously improve them. However, not everyone involved… Read more

Quality Management

Manuel Klötzer

30.08.23

ISO 9001: Why the Revision is Coming Now (After All)

ISO 9001 is being revised – this has been announced by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Eight years have passed since the 2015 revision and about two years since the decision against a new version after five years. Now the responsible committee within ISO has decided to update the… Read more

A person is measuring an object as part of a production inspection

Quality Management

Manuel Klötzer

21.07.23

VDA Volume 5 – Standard Work for Measuring and Inspecting

In order to avoid wrong decisions with far-reaching consequences when inspecting industrially manufactured parts, the measuring and inspection equipment used must be demonstrably suitable for the intended purpose. ISO 9001 already stipulates that organizations "shall determine and provide the resources… Read more

An employee holding a tablet PC in a production company

Quality Management

Manuel Klötzer

24.05.23

Excel – the Allrounder for Quality Management?

Whether it is employee management, resource planning or indeed quality management: Wherever large amounts of data are collected, spreadsheet applications such as Excel are usually not far behind. However, what often appears to be the easiest way is not always the most reliable or efficient solution –… Read more

A manager symbolically delegates tasks to employees

Quality Management

Lutz Krämer

29.03.23

Quality Talk: Quality Cannot Be Delegated

Effective quality management – a wide variety of companies would probably come up with the most diverse definitions of what that actually is. What role does quality still play today? And what role should it play? In an interview with Thomas Stöber, Vice President Management Systems at WKW, Lutz Krämer, CPO… Read more

Everything is merged in one management system

Quality Management

Caterina Feld

02.11.22

Meaningful, Profitable (I)MS

In addition to a formal understanding of management systems, it is also important to deal with their deeper meaning and meaningfulness in order to understand and make them useful for oneself and one's own company. Read more