On February 10th, 2017, one of the Supplier of Sargento Foods Inc., Deutsch Kase Haus, LLC of Middlebury, Ind., has notified the company that a specialty Longhorn Colby cheese they supplied to Sargento must be recalled due to a potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes. Sargento Foods Inc., one of the biggest Read more…
October 7th 2016 is the 5th anniversary of MANUFACTURING DAY℠ celebrated every first Friday of October in the USA, several Canadian provinces, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The idea for celebration was to “address common mis-perceptions about manufacturing by giving manufacturers an opportunity to open their doors and show, in a coordinated Read more…
Inspectors from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) inspected the CRF Frozen Foods LLC plant in Pasco, Washington from March 14 trough 17 – 2016, founding several observations causing the operation suspension at Pasco facility and a voluntary recall of around 360 organic frozen vegetables and fruits that have the potential to be contaminated Read more…
On June 24, 1980 NBC, the television broadcasting company, presented a documentary called “If Japan Can… Why Can’t We.” as part of NBC’s White Paper series. They featured Dr. W. Edwards Deming, an american who went to Japan on 1950 and taught the Japanese his leadership philosophy and all about quality and productivity Read more…
On February 23rd 2016 US-owned Mars, one of the biggest chocolate factory in the world announced a huge recall after a customer found a piece of red plastic in a Snickers bar bought in Germany on January 8th. After he complained to the company, the plastic was traced back to its factory in the Read more…
The 2015 Future of Quality report is here. It is entitled “Quality Throughout” and it is free for everyone. You can download it by visiting the ASQ website. This year the report is a little bit different than the past ones. This is a compilation of essays from experts in Read more…
(This is a response to ASQ Blog post about the Pros and Cons of Conferences) Nowadays, networking is the most common, useful and effective tool we all have access to and also need to, in order to build our business, meet new people, find a job or for any of Read more…
globalstateofquality.org When we talk about Quality we must think globally. The globalization of businesses and quality is a reality even for small- and medium-size companies. Every company now finds that some of their prime competitors are likely to be based in another country; this affects the strategic and quality approach and the Read more…
How will the future of quality unfold? In his last blog post of “A view from the Q”, Bill Troy asked an interesting question on the future of Quality. He believes that “there are two very distinct views about the future of quality we need to at least acknowledge, if Read more…
The message of this video is AMAZING and it means a lot to me. For all the MOMS out there who are passionate about their family and profession… Happy Mother’s Day! Note: the video is spoken in Spanish, so turn the English CC on, if you need it.
In his last blog post, Paul Borawski talked about Training on quality field, provided inside organizations to their employees, and the ones professionals pursue on their own for their professional improvement. The ASQ’s Global State of Quality research shows that “Organizations that govern quality with a centralized group are roughly 30 percent more likely Read more…
April’s topic for the Influential Voices that ASQ’s CEO Paul Borawski wanted to discuss, is about the existence or not of a National Quality Award in our countries. My country, Argentina has been working on that for the more than 20 years. In 1991, in order to be part of the world Read more…
