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One man uses the Internet of Things to control processes in the company

22.09.21

Internet of Things: A Different Form of Collaboration

In our BloQ, we repeatedly emphasize how crucial good collaboration is for excellent quality. On the one hand, we are talking about the interaction between employees and individual departments; but above all, we are referring to the cross-company collaboration between customers and suppliers in the supply… Read more

Babtec

Emmerich Kriegl

15.09.21

Smart Collaboration in the Cloud

In the medical industry, the highest quality standards are required to ensure that products function perfectly in practice. Whether for operating surgery equipment, dialysis systems or medical robotics – reliable, high-quality and innovative contract developers are required to map quality processes across… Read more

Scales, laptop and judge's hammer on a desk

Quality

Caterina Feld

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

Team uses sticky notes for error analysis

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