Driving Quality Within the Supply Chain

Use of Lean manufacturing philosophy and Lean Six Sigma tools have contributed to SigmaTron International’s quality and production teams achieving superior levels of quality, particularly within assembly operations. That said, even with outstanding process control, incoming material can impact achievement of Six Sigma quality levels. As a result, quality management needs to have a strategy for both ensuring supplier quality and identifying and correcting issues when that quality drops.

This article looks at SigmaTron’s supplier qualification process and ways its supplier quality engineering team help drive improvements within the supply base. Read the full article here.