With the third edition of VDA Volume 5, answers to many questions and challenges in practical application are provided.

This column continues the discussion on delivering the best effort to break through roadblocks as we journey through life. If you haven’t had the chance to read my previous column, I would encourage you to do so.

Careful implementation of optimal tools and techniques is a focus of Optikos Corp. (Wakefield, MA), an optical engineering and manufacturing company working to eliminate waste in product movement, downtime, and product defects.

DISCUS Software Company specializes in software tools for accelerating manufacturing and quality engineering in the aerospace, automotive, medical and heavy machinery fields.

Using Minitab’s Predictive Analytics with Auto ML in manufacturing enables quality improvement and warranty prediction, practically in real-time.

In situations where resources are limited to gathering real data would be too expensive or impractical, Monte Carlo simulations can help forecast results and probabilities. 

A global leader in the food and beverage industry faced a complex challenge in their process of refining corn sugars.

Greg Kinsey, Industry Executive at Hitachi, reveals how creative uses of the DMAIC process with digital transformation are helping factories to unlock the next level of process improvement.

Real-Time SPC provides data collection, monitoring, alerts, and analysis that allow organizations to identify actionable insights immediately.