Author Archives: Robert Farrell

Despite meticulous planning, product quality flaws can arise. Such issues can lead to dissatisfaction among consumers, high scrap rates, excessive warranty claims, and financial loss for manufacturers. Here are three common product quality flaws associated with manufacturing: Defective Components or Materials: One of the primary causes of product quality flaws…

Time domain analysis is a versatile and powerful tool that plays a crucial role in understanding the dynamic behavior of systems across various disciplines. Its applications range from control systems engineering to signal processing, electronics, and structural engineering. By providing insights into how systems evolve over time, time domain analysis…

Part-related flaws, anomalies, defects, or simply not meeting customer-defined specifications can have significant consequences that ripple through the entire supply chain. Poor quality leads to customer complaints and damage to a supplier’s reputation. Customers are less likely to tolerate subpar products, and a negative reputation can result in lost contracts….

Assessing product quality based largely on human judgment and perception is trouble waiting to happen. This manual approach comes with a range of challenges that can impact production efficiency, consistency, and your company’s overall reputation. Here are some key disadvantages of subjective quality testing for manufacturers: Inconsistency: Subjective testing is…

Squeaks, rattles, shaking, noise, it’s easy to point the finger at sound and vibration as a sign of poor quality. Afterall, these and similar problems directly correlate to product recalls, dissatisfied customers, lost contracts, and scrapped parts. It’s no wonder that manufacturers have been trying to minimize or eliminate their…

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