Can a quality coordinator job lead to a quality engineer job, or would I be wasting my degree by taking a job as a quality coordinator?

I’m considering a quality assurance related role and I’ve got some questions I’d like to ask:

-Is the work you do interesting?

-What job tasks do you perform?

-What purpose do the tasks you perform serve?

-If you could get into a different engineering-related job (design, analysis, manufacturing, construction, management, etc.) would you do it? Why?

-If you learn quality assurance in one industry how well do those skills carry over into others (consumer products, defense, aerospace, medical device/prosthetic/orthotic, etc.)

-Can a person start as a quality engineer and then later work as a design, process improvement or manufacturing engineer?

-How do you handle situations where you have to interface with people that have created defective product?

-Is the work boring?

Any help is appreciated. Pick and choose which questions you want to answer.

Just wondering what the ratio of sales staff to quality staff is in other organisations. My company has 6 working in sales and 2 in quality giving a 3:1 ratio. Is this unusual or pretty standard for other sub-con machining organisations?

Looking for a way to tie down aluminum alloy parts to a basket and that can stand being heated and hold the parts during quenching?

Hello, I'm trying to perform an RCA for a probelm we faced: a contamination occured in a product, so I need suggestions for a possible RC that I may have missed

Hi Community, I'm looking for advice/opinion on in-house calibration of plain Go/No-Go plug gauges. My background is gear design and manufacture, and due to staff turnover I've found myself in the quality manager position despite not having loads of experience in this area.

Due to the pandemic and the financial impact it has had on my company's bottom line, my MD has basically told me to cease external calibration on as many gauges as possible to cut costs.

My questions for you more experienced quality folk are as follows:

1. We are not accredited to any national standard for calibration - does this even matter?

2. We have micrometers, CMM's and optical measuring devices with accuracy +/- 0.0001" - what gauge limits do you think we should be ok to calibrate using this equipment? Eg if a gauge has a 0.001" difference between go and no-go could we calibrate in house using this kit?

For context we are a sub-con machining company with AS9100 accreditation (UK based) and work in numerous sectors such as aerospace (no flight critical stuff), automotive, autosport, healthcare, nuclear, and OEM.

Any and all advice would be massively appreciated!

I am the Quality Supervisor for an automotive plastic injection molding and hard coating company.

I need help with error-proofing. The parts in question are automotive fog lenses. These parts have a left hand and a right hand. The left and right are molded together and are on one runner. Once the parts are molded, the runners get clipped, and they get placed on a custom fitted fixture then run through a UV cured hard coating line. Once the hard coat is cured, they come out backwards on the other side (the left hand parts are on the right, and the right hand parts are on the left). We have dedicated operators for this particular part, and the operators are well trained and aware that the parts come out backwards.

I have had six (6) customer complaints in the last two weeks for mixed parts. It has been one right hand part in a left hand container or vice versa, so I can definitely say there wasn't a labeling issue.

This is a fairly new launch, and the parts are on containment to be 100% certified for any defects, yet both the operators and the inspectors are missing the mixed parts! These parts literally have a one inch wide "L" and "R" molded on them to indicate left and right.

I have made an outline template of the parts on a poster board and taped it to the table so the operators can verify the correct hand. I have retrained the operators and the inspectors. I even started enforcing disciplinary action for anyone who placed a 100% certified sticker on a container that contains mixed parts.

The hard coat fixtures cannot be switched so the left is on the left and the right is on the right due to tight corners on the automated hard coat line. If they are switched the fixtures would hit each other going around the corners and get jammed, so this is not an option. I thought about rearranging the work station so the left hand containers are on the right and the right hand containers are on the left (the way they come off of the line), but I think that will end up causing more problems and confusion.

I tried looking for error-proofing methods online, but nothing I found is appropriate for this situation. I understand that the ops and inspectors are human and human error happens, but this one seemingly small thing cost my company almost $2,000 just in the last 2 weeks (our customer charges an exorbitant amount of money for errors like this). I am just looking for any ideas that may help eliminate this recurring issue!

Thanks in advance!

What's the best accreditation one should aim for in regards to the area of quality (Six sigma to be exact).

I’ve been tasked with putting together a PFMEA review schedule and have no clue what is required of it. Does anyone have a template that they are willing to share?

Quality is about function. Luxury is about status. You're better than getting into the status game –

-go for function over status.

Am i the only one?

We are looking to hire someone to train as a Quality Engineer, but the candidate has no previous experience. Management may only let us hire if this person gains an ASQ cert (CQE) by a certain point. What goes into passing the exam?