Quality Methods: An Inspector Shares His Experience

For us here at VKS, establishing the best quality methods is our top priority. That’s why we are devoted to helping our customers pursue the best standards of Industry 4.0. This is accomplished through capturing quality data, standardizing instructions, and sharing knowledge.

But how do real people use our work instruction software in their day-to-day activities? How do they use VKS to tackle key manufacturing challenges and improve company processes?

With these questions in mind, let’s hear from a person that uses VKS on a daily basis.

Interview with Gabriel Dumouchel, Quality Inspector at CMP

We have the privilege of talking with Mr. Gabriel Dumouchel, a Quality Inspector at CMP. As a daily user of VKS, he tells us how he and his team have employed the use of work instruction software to gain insight, improve productivity, and enhance quality.

Gabriel’s Role at CMP

Gabriel is responsible for ensuring that quality is maintained at every step of CMP's production process. He audits the manufacturing processes and makes sure all steps meet the highest standards of quality. Having been a Work Instruction Author in the past, Gabriel also brings an in-depth understanding of how work instructions are created and maintained to his role as a Quality Inspector.

Using VKS on a Daily Basis

VKS is deeply integrated into CMP’s quality methods. Gabriel and his team use the software daily to inspect, monitor, and enhance product quality, ensuring everything produced meets stringent requirements.

The Importance of VKS for Quality Control

Gabriel highlights that VKS is crucial to CMP’s quality control efforts. The software enables real-time monitoring and traceability, which are essential in ensuring continuous improvement of their processes.

Learning to Use VKS

Gabriel found the VKS software easy to learn and believes anyone can become proficient with it in just a few sessions. He attributes this to VKS’s user-friendly design and helpful customer support.

Skills for a Great Work Instruction Author

Writing clear and concise work instructions is essential to ensuring quality on the shop floor. Gabriel emphasizes that authors must consider the operator’s skill level and perspective when creating work instructions.

Users of VKS Guidebooks

While the guidebooks are primarily written for operators, other departments such as quality control and production coaches use them to ensure efficiency and clarity across the factory floor.

The Time Taken to Write a Guidebook

The time to create a guidebook varies depending on the complexity of the task. Simpler guidebooks may take only 15-20 minutes, while more complex processes may take up to 2 days.

Key VKS Features

One of the most impactful VKS features for Gabriel’s team has been Smart Forms, which help capture real-time quality data during the manufacturing process. This data is crucial for monitoring performance and ensuring that quality standards are upheld.

The Main Benefit of VKS for CMP

For Gabriel, the biggest benefit of VKS has been the control it provides over their production processes. The software allows CMP to monitor their operations and improve leadership effectiveness through continuous insight.

Additional Insights from Gabriel

Gabriel also highlights the usefulness of VKS’s KPI system, which allows them to monitor productivity by comparing the number of completed parts to the time taken. This insight helps the team stay on top of production and quality metrics.

Advanced Quality Methods That Suit Your Needs

In this conversation, we’ve covered quite a few ways that manufacturers enhance the efficacy of their quality methods with VKS. Let’s go over these points and see how you can advance the quality methods of your business.

• Clear standardized instructions increase the efficacy of your quality methods: Employees can only perform the work that you guide them to do. That’s why it’s important to provide standardized instructions that enable workers to have a clear and consistent quality method.
• VKS empowers you to have total control over what’s happening in your factory: With increased operational transparency and continuous insight into your procedures and production, you can make smarter decisions and enact more effective leadership.
• Capture real-time data and KPIs to continuously improve your quality methods: By receiving valuable insight through KPIs (key performance indicators) and other valuable quality methods metrics, VKS enables companies to gain complete visibility into their operation. Use this data to find precise inefficiencies and enact real continuous improvement to your quality methods.
• Engage workers with powerful Smart Forms: Your workers create value every day. They are the people most connected with any process. Leverage their knowledge and experience to gather in-depth quality data from the shop floor. Set up smart forms to appear at critical points during assembly. This will ensure that the process is working while you receive valuable insight directly from your workers.
• Write your work instructions with your workers in mind: Work instruction software should always be written from the perspective of the end-user. Put yourself in the shoes of the operator and consider their capabilities and knowledge. Use VKS to write instructions for multiple skill levels.
• Use pictures and videos to thoroughly explain the process: Optimize pictures, videos, annotations, and more to provide accurate and precise instructions. Anyone can succeed if they have the right instructions and tools.

With an intuitive software that is responsive to your needs, VKS enables manufacturers to gain greater control over their processes and procedures in every aspect of their operation. This in turn has incredible benefits for quality assurance and allows companies to oversee their production in a more comprehensive way.

We hope this interview has given you a practical look into how real people use VKS to meet the standards of Industry 4.0 and modern manufacturing.