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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.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
BBC News has changed on this blogsite
If you were expecting to see the pretty scrolling BBC news headlines box over on the right hand side of this site then I’m sorry, but I have taken it down. It was a facility provided by WidgetBox and had … Continue reading
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How do sampling plans and AQLs work?
If you are buying two or three complex assemblies per month from a contract manufacturer it would be reasonable to check every one carefully; there’s a lot that could go wrong. However, if you are buying 100,000 simple subassemblies per … Continue reading
When you launch a new product, what haven’t you thought about?
Quality is all about meeting requirements, even the ones that you don’t know about yet. Recently I have been working with some entrepreneurs and start-ups who have tremendous drive and enthusiasm and some great product ideas but are not very … Continue reading
