You're facing design feedback from the production team. How do you ensure quality isn't compromised?
When production feedback rolls in, ensure your design's integrity with these strategies:
How do you balance feedback and design quality? Share your strategies.
You're facing design feedback from the production team. How do you ensure quality isn't compromised?
When production feedback rolls in, ensure your design's integrity with these strategies:
How do you balance feedback and design quality? Share your strategies.
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The key element is manufacturability of a particular design, a gap is seen in the understanding of same by designers. This results in design feedback from production, also by virtue of product performance. The quality element can also be verified by enhanced validation of modified/improved components, ensuring process capability stabilization for the modified components. It is also important to ensure a through temporary check of the affected components till the improvement stabilizes.
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It must be ensure by R&D that during production. It must been ensure ease of production will ensure Quality is not compromise . This will reduce cost of production and ensure quality in place. The feedback of to R&D must be taken positively. on overall it is customer should get the benefits in terms of viability of product and quality of the product.
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One thing I know that should be done is true R&D! Know what your product has to do and work with your production and design team to make sure you can make or build it based off what your customers want and within the standards they need.
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First, understand what the purpose and function of the product is. Second, bring all stakeholders to the table and negotiate changes that allow production to continue without sacrificing essential elements. Third, do the homework on costing and impact to the business to ensure that what is done in not just for the benefit of one, but of all. Lastly, review and improve.
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It is well said that One step in wrong direction leads to a thousand mile journey As such any wrong decision taken bypassing the basic engineering practices and fundamentals is a disaster waiting to happen engineering path to be tread very carefully and does not work on the whims and fantasies of any power position. Similarly any feedback on any design or any process of engineering is to be reviewed with all the basic engineering fundamentals and then acted upon.
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Robust QA procedure during production. Each production step should be quantified keeping yardstick parameters of the product in view. Creation of NO fear environment in reporting error be encouraged. Capability development of the employee is taken religiously. Calibrated instruments of good quality for parameters checking.
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Whenever you roll out any new designs, ensure to call for a feasibility study along with a CFT comprising of all functions of manufacturing operations. The success is how well the CFT involves in understanding new concept or design and gives a proper feedback to the designers on manufacturing feasibility.
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In some cases, designing a product and producing at the manufacturing facility are not exactly in the same condition, why? Cross-country machineries, templates, technicians, know-how, are these fully aligned? This could be a sourcing weakness that should have not been overlooked. Can this be the manufacturer's fault? 1. Review if the design feedback is really a difficulty, does it impact the sale purpose and sellability? 2. If it is a difficulty, review with sales team if the proposal is sellable and meet the product purpose? A. Manufacturer to send a representing sample for approval. B. List out impacted POs and make alignment to all parties involved. 3. If not, set clear standard, exactly to follow the final version approval sample.
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To address production team feedback without losing quality, I'd first understand their concerns, then analyze any risks to product performance. We’d test changes to ensure standards are met, documenting impacts and aligning on quality protocols like ISO 9001. Finally, a feedback loop with the team helps us keep quality intact and resolve any issues early.
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I use only a couple "Machine Shops" after 35 years in the business and still check everything with a micrometer, dial indicator before I begin assembling anything!
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