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Team uses sticky notes for error analysis

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

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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

A light bulb in the form of a plant symbolizes sustainable ideas

Quality

Marc Osenberg

09.06.21

The Quality Feature Sustainability

In the digitalized and globalized world, companies are basically required to act pragmatically. New technologies, shorter production cycles and individual customer requirements are already presenting them with major challenges – additional effort and extra costs do not fit in well at all. In the short… Read more

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Kompetenzzentrum Frau und Beruf Bergisches Städtedreieck

26.05.21

Women in Leadership: The Strengths of Women Must Be Utilized More Effectively

Dagmar Henkel moved into a management position early on after completing her studies. She jumped in at the deep end and seized her opportunities with courage and ambition. She took advantage of the opportunity that many women still have to actively seek today. As a human resources professional, she… Read more