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You may need to develop & implement customized software to support your factory's processes precisely how you uniquely need it to.

But these IT projects can end up being very costly sinkholes and we usually advise customers to avoid heavy customization where possible.

Nonetheless, there are some ways to develop such software without getting stung and in this post, we share 5 tips to smooth your path.

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5 Tips for Developing Customized Software To Support Your Factory's Processes Let's say you haven't found a software package to support your factory's operations how you need. Here are our 5 tips for developing customized software.

Many and purchasing organizations still aren't making the best use of their data which is, unfortunately, not collected in a database for analysis.

They're missing an opportunity, though.

Using relatively simple can provide many actionable ideas for cutting defect rates, supplier risks, and operational costs.

Here are 5 examples in this post:
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5 Examples of Quality Control Data Analytics that Save Costs What QC data analytics can you use to cut defect rates, supplier risks, & operational costs? Explore 5 easy-to-implement analyses to improve quality here.

Checking quality during production is a great way to pinpoint quality issues before it's too late in order to prevent them from ruining a whole production run.
The way that you check quality, though, depends on the situation, so to illustrate this, we share 4 examples in this post where you can see the different production planning and inspection method used depending on the product type (in terms of complexity) and order quantity.
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How To Plan & Arrange Product QC During Production? The common options for checking quality during manufacturing and how to schedule inspections based on work orders issued by a factory's planning system.

Happy Chinese New Year!
We'd like to wish all of our followers a fantastic year of the rat.
Everyone here at SynControl extends our warmest wishes, wherever you are in the world, and a successful 2020!

Industry 4.0 relies on 'advanced manufacturing,' but with less than a third of industrial companies implementing 'Fourth Industrial Revolution technology,' it seems that many businesses are spinning their wheels and falling behind.
This interesting post highlights how digital transformation can be achieved, even for those that are yet to attempt it, and lays out some important points to consider for success.
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The 3 key ingredients for the digital transformation of manufacturing Advanced manufacturing is opening a range of opportunities for companies to transform factories, business models and to shape a new wave of economic growth.

Are YOU committing these quality fails?
If so, this blog post will help!
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6 Traditional Quality Inspection Process Fails (& Software Solutions) Discover 6 common fails found in 'traditional' quality processes, and revolutionary solutions to them provided by using a modern QC report software.

Everyone here at SynControl would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2020! 😃🎄

At SynControl our software has helped numerous clients improve their quality inspection activities by giving them structure to QC and auditing processes, automating processes to save time and effort, and providing more data than before.
But is the quality inspection software alone enough to make big improvements in quality, or is something else required?

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Is Software Alone Enough To Considerably Improve Product Quality? Explore whether quality inspection software can markedly improve quality on its own, or whether human input, too, is required to get the best results.

So you're interested in implementing new software in your organization, such as an ERP or PLM system?
Perhaps you're looking to digitize certain processes?
Here are our 8 'rules' for manufacturers & buyers to follow in this situation based off of our positive experiences in implementing our quality inspection software for multiple clients.

Have you recently implemented new software or digitized processes? How did that go?

8 Rules for Successful Software Implementation and Process Changes We've helped many companies with successful new software implementations of our quality inspection software. Read our 8 rules for buyers & manufacturers to follow in this situation.

We can all agree that a factory audit has certain benefits, such as confirming that a supplier is capable of producing your goods at the required quality standard, but how to get started with audits the right way?
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7 Tips To Start a Quality Auditing Program to Cuts Your Risks Getting ready to audit a factory? This post defines 7 tips that will help you get the best results from your audits and reduce quality risks in future.

Saving money is more important than ever for importers, but spending more on preventive activities like factory audits on suppliers' factories will often save a lot more in costs than they cost themselves.

Keep reading to explore what a good factory auditing program looks like, how it works, and the best practices you should be following.

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Why Auditing your Suppliers’ Factories Will Cut Your Costs Auditing supplier's factories pushes their management to implement or improve the systems that will stop quality issues at source, lowering your costs.

Do you have a buying office overseas?
We interviewed a procurement expert, Jürgen Weckherlin, who shared some interesting tips for importers.
For instance, do you know what the single most important thing is that a buying office can do to prevent purchasers from getting commissions (kickbacks) from suppliers?
This and many more useful pieces of advice are shared in this post.

Best Practices for Buying Offices in China & Asia [Q&A] Read our interview with Jürgen Weckherlin, productivity & cost-focused procurement expert, which shares best practices for buying offices in China & Asia.

Discover our 4 key quality improvement tools. They're NOT acceptance sampling (AQL inspections), 5S, preventive maintenance, or mistake proofing as you may quickly assume.
We're talking about four tools which improve processes and make poor quality difficult to occur in the first place. Read on to learn more. 🏭 🛠️💡

4 Fundamental Quality Improvement Tools We're starting to use four quality improvement tools, common in the automotive industry, repeatedly with good success in other verticals. See them here.

What can we learn from manufacturers who have already embraced 'industry 4.0' and digitised many of their processes in order to spur productivity, growth, and more?
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The Future Of Manufacturing? Digital Transformation. Is digital transformation the future of manufacturing? I respond to an interesting podcast which outlines many of today's important Industry 4.0 innovations for manufacturers, and offers up some interesting information for those who have yet to start digitising their factories.

What data should you be acquiring and checking in order to make smarter decisions as a buyer who is obtaining products from Chinese suppliers? Find out here!

Risk Management When Buying Products From Chinese Suppliers Purchasers in Asian buying offices work like a bank's risk management department. Why are these jobs similar? What data do buyers need to make the right decisions when buying products from Chinese suppliers?

Would you benefit from more productive QC inspection teams? Take a look at these 5 suggestions you can use to increase productivity, lower costs, get results faster, and more.
Do you have any to add, or any success stories with these?

Quality Control For Manufacturers: How SynControl Changes QC Approaches Here are 5 ways a factory can change its quality control approach and drive better business results with, and without, quality inspection software like SynControl. Which have you used before, and can you add to them?

Are you 100% sure that your sampling lot selections and quality inspection levels are as effective as possible?
This article may make you think again...

Quality Inspection Level & Sampling Lot: Making the Right Choices Quality managers could be losing time or taking too many risks with their quality inspections. This post shares some examples illustrating different inspection situations, helping you to decide how to set the inspection level and what to include in each sampling lot.

Take a closer look at what could be implemented to make it easier, or harder, for a manufacturer to pass the final inspection so you cover your expectations here. https://hubs.ly/H0dg7ZD0

Quality Inspection: Why an AQL Limit of 2.5% Means Nothing Many Chinese suppliers try to reassure their potential customers by claiming they are certain to pass a quality inspection with an AQL of 2.5%. When asked for documentation that explains precisely what they mean, they usually have nothing to offer. Learn what you can do to cover your quality bases h...

Take a closer look at what could be implemented to make it easier, or harder, for a manufacturer to pass the final inspection so you cover your expectations here. https://hubs.ly/H0dg8P50

Quality Inspection: Why an AQL Limit of 2.5% Means Nothing Many Chinese suppliers try to reassure their potential customers by claiming they are certain to pass a quality inspection with an AQL of 2.5%. When asked for documentation that explains precisely what they mean, they usually have nothing to offer. Learn what you can do to cover your quality bases h...

Read this post to get our recommendations on how you should build a quality inspection management system in order to improve the reliability of your QC team.

4 Reasons To Build a Strong Inspection Management System Many quality inspectors work outside a clear framework and should put in place 4 key processes in order to ensure reliability in inspection management systems

Forewarned is forearmed, so check out the 4 reasons why bad products sneak through despite having been checked by your quality inspectors, and then formulate a plan to stop this from happening.

4 Human Reasons Why Quality Inspections Let Defective Goods Pass Every day, quality inspections take place and some batches are shipped with serious issues. Discover 4 main reasons inspectors don’t do a good job.

Are you importing or ?
In this post we break down the features that quality inspection software must have if it is to truly benefit garment inspectors above their current methods.
Are you ready to consider a software solution to improve the effectiveness of quality inspections?

What Quality Control Software Can Garment Inspectors Use? The right quality control software for garment inspectors has to be easy to use, to guide them through the process, and to make measurements input very fast.

Let's look at how Chinese social pressure can turn quality inspectors' heads in just the same way as money can, why, and how it can be mitigated or avoided.

Quality Inspector Corruption: It’s Not All About The Money The QC industry is always afraid of ‘classic’ cases of bribery (money changing hands), but a very common cause of quality inspector corruption in China is social pressure from the factory. Let's explore in more detail what this social pressure entails, and why it causes quality inspectors to 'go...

EU Importers! Wondering how to create technical files which are compliant? Here's our guide.

Product Compliance in the EU: Guidance On Creating Technical Files What information to track in your product files? How to save and archive product compliance data? Ideally, how to delegate some work to suppliers and testing labs?

Thinking about using quality inspection software to improve results from your inspectors? Great! But, you will no doubt be wondering what the ROI of such software is. This post demonstrates 8 ways in which SynControl clients gained positive ROI, and how you can too!

8 Ways Adopting Quality Inspection Software Gives Importers Great ROI There are 8 ways to quantify the savings & ROI (return on investment) you will get from setting up quality inspection software in your company. These ways are based on client feedback after a year or more of using SynControl's solution. Could software like ours make your company these savings?

Here's some advice on how you can reduce the time your quality inspections take!

Sampling Plan in Minitab: a Useful Hack To Cut Inspection Time Most QC departments follow the ‘AQL tables”. Yet they wish they had more flexibility to cut inspection time. You can find this sampling plan in Minitab.

Take a closer look at what could be implemented to make it easier, or harder, for a manufacturer to pass the final inspection so you cover your quality expectations here. https://hubs.ly/H0dg7Qd0

Quality Inspection: Why an AQL Limit of 2.5% Means Nothing Many Chinese suppliers try to reassure their potential customers by claiming they are certain to pass a quality inspection with an AQL of 2.5%. When asked for documentation that explains precisely what they mean, they usually have nothing to offer. Learn what you can do to cover your quality bases h...

What kinds of features the you'd benefit from using needs to offer! https://hubs.ly/H08s5Wf0

What Quality Inspection Software Is Ideal For Mechanical Products? Do you buy mechanical products? Are you tired or writing findings on paper or in Excel? Are you wondering what quality inspection software would be a good fit?