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ISO 9001:2015 and Risk-based Thinking (RBT)
Nearly one year into the three-year transition period, we’ve been hearing a lot of conversation about the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) 2015 revised version of standard 9001 on Quality Management Systems (QMS). The 2015 edition “follows a new, higher...
Preventing Counterfeit Products in the Aerospace Supply Chain
The new revision of AS9100 / 9110 /8120 clause 8.1.4 Counterfeit Part Prevention states “the organization shall plan, implement and control a process appropriate to the product that prevents the use of counterfeit product and either inclusion in product(s) delivered...
Oregon Manufacturing Award Winners 2016
We're Proud of our Clients! OMEP was honored to attend the Portland Business Journal's 2016 Oregon Manufacturing Awards today. For the past 5 years we have participated in this exciting event, and each year we are honored to see our clients publicly recognized for...
A Practical Guide to PQR Analysis
What Is PQR? PQR stands for Product, Quantity and Routing. PQR analysis is a way of answering the questions: What do you make? How many do you make? What processes are required to make it? In Thinking Lean, everything is related to takt time (pace). To calculate the...
Skills Shortage? What Skills Shortage?
The Skills Shortage Solution to Date: Panic! There has been much publicity and alarm surrounding the impending shortage of skills in manufacturing. Evidence of the skills shortage has been raised through the analysis of survey results and deduced from the exiting of...
Start or Grow Your Manufacturing Exports
Helping Oregon's manufacturers to become exporters Did you know that exports of Oregon’s food & beverage products exceeded $687 million in sales? In fact, over 70% of the world’s disposable income is outside the U.S. Is your company able to export and benefit...
Rain or Shine: Forecasting the Future for Manufacturing Businesses
Forecasting the Future for Manufacturing Businesses Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower According to the Washington Post in 2015, weather forecasters “correctly predicted if there would be precipitation the next day 82 percent of the...
How the Process of Change Can Bring Manufacturers Growth
Results matter Just ask any olympic athlete about the importance of results .025 seconds can mean the difference between a bronze medal or none at all. What do you do as a business when you're not getting the results you want? What if you're not profitable enough?...
8 Ideas Manufacturers Should Consider Before Replacing Equipment
Small Manufacturer Machine Maintenance Challenges As a small- to medium-sized manufacturer, you might not have an engineering staff. Maintenance reliability for a key piece of equipment can be a challenge. Maybe you have an old piece of equipment that has...
Considering Human Factors Requirements in ISO 9001 & AS9100
Note: This is a guest blog post by Marcia Buser and Tristan Buser-Molatore In our last blog post, we reported on changes coming to the aerospace quality management standards that we learned about at the American Aerospace Quality Group aerospace auditors workshop held...