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09.03.22

5S Method for More Order in the Workplace

Hand on heart: Is your workplace tidy? Do you always know immediately where which item is? Are there only things at your workplace that you really need? While one person really flourishes in creative chaos, the other aligns the notepad parallel to the edge of the table and always has the wet wipes from the… Read more

Maintenance of a machine by the employee

Quality Management

Lena Weger

16.02.22

What are preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance?

Maintenance is important, sure. After all, every successful company should make a point of ensuring that its equipment works when it matters most. But what is the best approach to maintenance planning? This article introduces the approaches of preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance. Read more

Quality

Lutz Krämer

01.12.21

Sustainability and Quality – a Symbiosis?

What role does sustainability play in modern quality management? Our BloQ article on the quality feature sustainability has already shown that it has long been a decisive purchasing criterion for customers and that sustainable processes in product creation are playing an increasingly important role for… Read more

Employees, symbolized by wooden figures, are guided by uniform regulations

Digitalization

Lutz Krämer

10.11.21

9 Arenas of Digitalization: Context and Morals

The requirements in ISO 9001:2015 with reference to the purpose of the organization, the questions about mission, identification, dealing with influencing factors as well as expectations: all of these feed into an organization’s quality policy. If this quality policy is not exclusively presented on the… Read more

Wooden blocks with the inscription "Kaizen"

Quality Management

Maren Behrendt

03.11.21

The Kaizen Principle: Tried and Tested, Yet with Its Pulse on the Times

Many methods from quality management find their origin in Japanese philosophies: so does the Kaizen principle. What sounds at first like a beautifully designed garden with bonsai trees is actually a philosophy from which various practical methods for QM have emerged. In this article you will read what… Read more

A diver in front of an ISO9001 lettering

Quality Management

Dr. Markus Reimer

13.10.21

ISO 9001:XY? – A Dive with Four Tips

There will be no revision of ISO 9001 – at least not in the near future. Dr. Markus Reimer explains why he believes this decision was the right one. He shares with us the insights that will help us to better understand and implement the existing ISO 9001:2015. Read more