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It is often said that you can’t test quality into a product, you have to design it in. However, there’s a particularly powerful way of using testing to improve a product’s design so that it exhibits much greater reliability. ‘HALT’ – Highly Accelerated Life Testing – was invented by the pioneering American quality engineer Gregg [...]         Inspired by the move of this blog to WordPress (actually, to be honest, one of the reasons for it), I have been looking at the suitability of WordPress for implementing Intranet-based Quality Management Systems. But then, I thought, why stop there, so I went on to look at Content Management Systems such as Joomla! and Drupal [...] I was praising the virtues of Vista 64 recently. I knew a lot of people who had been to hell and back with Vista when it first emerged, but my experience was the opposite – it was stable, it was fast, and when the odd ‘funny’ did happen it recovered and self-repaired amazingly well. But [...] Once again, urgent client work has taken over and my blogging rate has decreased over the last few weeks. It happens quite easily! However, there have been developments; I am now contributing articles about Quality – called “Quality Insights” on a fortnightly basis to the Cambridge Network. Here’s the first one: http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/directory/orgprofile/news/default.aspx?objid=5517 Some will use material from [...] One of the best ways of solving systematic problems and improving the way you work is via a Corrective Action system, often known as CAPA – Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions. And, as with all the best processes, the trick is to keep it simple. To solve a problem, or improve something that isn’t as [...] |
Welcome to my blog, which I hope you'll find to be an interesting mixture of real-world experience, ideas, comments and observations.
Tom Gaskell
I've worked in industry as a consultant, manager and quality trouble-shooter for most of my career.
After spending 14 years in a multi-national consulting organisation and 10 years working in telecomms design and manufacturing start-ups, I set up the Cambridge (UK)-based quality, manufacturing and business consultancy Primilis (http://www.primilis.com) in 2006. |
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