RDI Technologies

Quality control is crucial for the success of any company that relies on its manufacturing facility. In addition to ensuring the highest-quality product possible, quality control can lower expenses by improving the manufacturing process’s efficiency, improving safety, and reducing the need for recalls. Some measures for optimizing quality control in your manufacturing facility may seem intuitive, like focusing on training and cross-training. Others may seem less familiar, like upgrading your vibration analysis equipment for an improved machine condition monitoring process. All of them are worth considering for making the most of your business’s manufacturing process.    Defining Your Facility’s Quality Standards It may seem obvious, but the first step in optimizing quality control in your production facility is specifically defining that facility’s quality standards. Rather than insisting that as few flaws or defects as possible is ideal, establish precisely how many per day ...

Reducing waste in manufacturing is an essential component of a leaner, more efficient process. The reduction of waste in manufacturing can result in an increased level of production, time saved, and greater profit. This can mean physical waste, waste of time, as well as resources. An effective, comprehensive waste-reduction strategy should incorporate dealing with both the uneconomical use of physical material and of inefficiencies in the process itself. That’s why optimizing both your inventory management and opting for more efficient vibration monitoring , for example, are worthwhile features of a waste-reduction strategy. Vibration Analysis Equipment Find Bottlenecks and Clear Them A considerable contributor to inefficiency and waste in a production process is bottlenecks. Their resolution is a two-part undertaking—identifying the bottlenecks and clearing them. Identifying those bottlenecks can be a challenge, particularly if there aren’t similar operations to compare them against f...