Preventive Quality – What we do
Preventive quality refers to a proactive approach in quality management that focuses on identifying and addressing potential issues or defects before they occur in a
product, service, or process. The main goal is to prevent quality problems rather than detecting and fixing them after they've happened.
This approach can lead to reduced waste, lower costs, improved customer satisfaction, and enhanced overall product or service quality. It's often contrasted with reactive
quality methods that focus on inspection and correction after production.
It also helps analyze potential failure modes and their effects, develop robust processes that minimize the chance of errors and ensure staff have the necessary skills and knowledge to maintain quality standards.
Key componenets of Preventive Quality
Preventive quality are tools and techniques that work together to create a comprehensive preventive quality system.
They help organizations anticipate potential issues, design robust processes, maintain consistent quality standards, and continuously improve their operations.
Implementing these practices requires commitment from all levels of an organization, from top management to frontline workers. It often involves a cultural shift
towards proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement.
Preventive quality helps to systematically analyze potential failure
modes, their causes, and impacts. It uses logic to analyze system failures and identifies potential hazards in process systems.
It focuses on reducing process variation and defects, aims to eliminate waste and improve efficiency through the incorporation of quality considerations into product
design.
It also offers practical, hands-on learning in the work environment, cross-training, regular updates on quality standards and uses mock scenarios to practice quality
procedures.
preventive quality is also used to assess supplier quality systems, track and evaluate supplier performance metrics. It involves suppliers early in the design process
to outline quality expectations.
Control charts are also used to monitor process stability and variation over time to assess if a process can meet specifications.