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08.09.21

Update on the Supply Chain Act: It’s been passed!

In March, we reported on the draft for the Supply Chain Act. This draft was passed by the German Bundestag in June 2021 and confirmed by the Bundesrat. The Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains (LkSG) – or Supply Chain Act for short – will initially apply to companies with more than… Read more

Quality

Benedikt Sommerhoff

25.08.21

Bad Failurs, Good Faliures- What Kind of Failure Culture Would You Like?

Quality also means the absence of deficiencies, failures and problems. Failure reduction up to zero-error concepts is therefore an important thrust of quality management. On the other hand, failures challenge us to make improvements. We therefore see them as both a bad thing to be avoided and a good thing… Read more

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Quality Management

Maren Behrendt

18.08.21

The Ishikawa Diagram – A Quality Tool for Failure Analysis

Failure analysis in quality management is essential to achieve high quality – Kaoru Ishikawa already recognized this in the early 1940s. To this day, the Ishikawa diagram he developed is therefore part of the seven quality tools for failure analysis in QM. What this QM toolbox is all about and how exactly… Read more

A woman working with data in a digital factory

Digitalization

Lutz Krämer

04.08.21

9 Arenas of Digitalization: Digital Factory and Industry 4.0

What makes a digital factory possible and also successful? Industry 4.0 and digital factories are characterized by highly complex processes that do not develop in a linear fashion and certainly not in the traditional organizational structure. Nor do they stop at departmental or company boundaries. In our… Read more

Babtec

Lea-Maria Anger

21.07.21

My Favorite Feature in BabtecQ: the Dashboard

What do you actually like most about our software? This is the question behind the new BloQ series “My Favorite Feature”. We asked our team members, who work with the software solutions for quality management every day in a variety of ways and from different perspectives. Today, software developer Anna… Read more

Three wooden blocks with the letters TQM

Quality Management

Maren Behrendt

23.06.21

Total Quality Management (TQM) – A Practicable Philosophy

T, Q and M: three letters that in combination result in a long history, a deep meaning and great relevance in the present and the future. Read here about the philosophy behind the term “Total Quality Management”, what a practicable version of it looks like and what incentive there is to successfully anchor… Read more