Tag Archives: quality improvement

Our Supplier Made Bad Products and Won’t Put Them Right | Disputes With Chinese Suppliers Q&A (Volume 27)

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Renaud Anjoran

In this next post from our Q&A series on disputes with Chinese suppliers, we explore another tricky situation. This time, the issue revolves around a supplier manufacturing a specialty product with design improvements, but failing to deliver a key promised … Continue reading →

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Building Quality at the Source: Lessons from Industry Leaders [Podcast]

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Adrian Leighton

Welcome back to the podcast, Episode 252, as we kick off 2025 with fresh insights and learnings. This episode is a deep dive into the heart of quality assurance, exploring why achieving excellence in the manufacturing industry goes beyond simple … Continue reading →

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The Experience Effect: The Key to Mass Production Cost Reduction & Efficiency

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Adrian Leighton

In this insightful episode, host Renaud Anjoran and senior engineer Paul Adams delve into the intriguing world of the ‘experience effect’ – a phenomenon that offers a wealth of benefits in mass production through persistent refinement and accumulated knowledge. Immersing … Continue reading →

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Cost Vs Quality – How Manufacturers Can Find A Balance [Podcast]

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Adrian Leighton

Adrian and Renaud tackle the big question of cost versus quality and how they both affect each other in manufacturing. You’ll learn common Chinese attitudes towards them, the long-term power of lean, and some achievable levers that can bring you … Continue reading →

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13 Strategies To Ensure Consistent Product Quality

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Adrian Leighton

Adrian and Renaud return for the last podcast of 2023, a bumper episode where they go through 13 quality strategies you can adopt to achieve consistent product quality. They’re roughly split into pre-production and post-production strategies, so settle down and … Continue reading →

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Why the Taguchi Method will reduce costs, increase quality, and get products to market faster

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Adrian Leighton

Renaud and our senior engineer Paul Adams discuss the Taguchi method, also known as Robust Design. The Taguchi method is a tool used in engineering and manufacturing to improve product and process quality and reduce defects at an early stage. … Continue reading →

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What Is “Quality?”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

Renaud takes you through the more theoretical side of quality, sharing several interesting definitions, exploring the difference between ‘little q’ and ‘Big Q’ quality, and sharing some insight into how to improve quality in your supply chain. Every importer sees … Continue reading →

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How To Get Better Quality Products From Suppliers & Optimize QC Inspections? [Podcast]

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

Sofeast’s CEO Renaud Anjoran and Adrian from the team are back with a topic for importers placing large and valuable orders with their overseas manufacturers and performing many product inspections. Your inspection budget is no doubt a reasonable size, but … Continue reading →

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DIY Sourcing from China Part 8: How To Improve Quality From Your Supplier? [Podcast]

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

We’re diving back into our series of episodes on how to do your own sourcing from China, from finding suppliers, getting the products manufactured, and through to post-cooperation soft skills such as building rapport with them, following up on production, … Continue reading →

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DIY Sourcing from China Part 7: How To Develop Your Chinese Supplier? [Podcast]

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

Sofeast CEO, Renaud, and Adrian from the team continue our mini-series of episodes about doing your own sourcing from China in this, our 7th part. By now, you’ve found and vetted a supplier and are working with them on production. … Continue reading →

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