Editor’s note: Here’s part one.

Sound quality management systems touch every level of your organization, from conception to post-market monitoring. Not surprisingly, manufacturing operations management (MOM) systems benefit from quality management system (QMS) integration. In an ideal scenario, closed-loop quality management principles can increase your company’s ability to respond to and mitigate quality issues early in the design process.

However, this situation is not always the case, which places the onus on MOM-to-QMS integration to catch quality issues before products reach the global market.

One of the key challenges of a manufacturing-intensive organization is how to improve collaboration among shop-floor operators and quality testing personnel. MOM systems provide companies with a means to efficiently bring products to market—and, most important, on time and at a lower cost.

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