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  • Quality in EVERY sector – how I’ve helped in food and beverage
    February 26, 2026
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    Quality in EVERY sector – how I’ve helped in food and beverage

    How I’ve helped in food and beverage sector

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  • Quality of Life
    December 10, 2025
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    Quality of Life

    Background information on Marnie Schmidt, a world quality influencer specializing in ISO 9001, quality management systems, lean and six sigma.

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  • Classic Quality Folks & Lean Six Sigma Black Belts UNITE!
    August 8, 2024
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    Classic Quality Folks & Lean Six Sigma Black Belts UNITE!

    Ideas about how to integrate classic management systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and lean Six Sigma into a more robust system with better results.

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  • Get ALL the tools working together!
    February 23, 2022
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    Get ALL the tools working together!

    Presenting Tribal Knowledge – The Use of ISO, Lean and Six Sigma Together.

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  • What new thing can you try to improve quality?
    July 23, 2020
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    What new thing can you try to improve quality?

    A discussion of trying new things to improve quality and improve your business.

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  • We don’t need a calibration program – we only use tape measures
    July 17, 2020
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    We don’t need a calibration program – we only use tape measures

    An example of an uncalibrated tape measure

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  • Processes don’t work “automagically”
    June 24, 2020
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    Processes don’t work “automagically”

    A discussion of how ISO9001, lean and six sigma can be used together to get better results and better quality.

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  • December 23, 2015
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    ISO9001:2015 52-Wk Challenge (Wk 51 & 52) FINAL EDITION 10 Improvement

    Well, this is it, folks! Thank you to everyone for your participation for the past 52 weeks.  Your comments have been thought provoking and helpful to many.  And with so many companies beginning to seriously consider their strategy for conversion to ISO9001:2015, these weekly posts will be there to look back upon as we move forward. With the New…

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