Total Cost of Quality in Steel Tube Manufacturing Inspection

What is your total cost of Quality? I ask this question often and invariably not many get this answer right.  So I thought I would expand on it with this short read. 

In a summary statement, the total cost of quality is the cost of control to manufacture + the cost of failure to control.  The cost of failure to control has both an internal cost and an external cost.

The internal costs are the cost of failure + the cost to remake the steel tube or pipe.  The external cost is the cost of containment at the client site.  For steel tube  or pipe manufacturing inspection this could mean unhappy clients, hours of reworks and incur unnecessary cost on the final product delivery. 

With identification of defects with quality control measures in place, cost of quality is not about increasing the size of your quality control department. Instead, it’s all about keeping the impact of defects on the profitability of your business at a minimal.  In other words reducing the cost of failure.   Logically, this means data collection, data mining, process monitoring and detecting the defects immediately during the manufacturing process. Followed by a sound quality assurance plan.   Radian, a total cost of quality monitoring system for steel tube and pipe plays a valuable role to effectively monitor each aspect of the manufacturing process.

Radian works by monitoring inputs from devices, process and other sources in real time.  Apart from check for defects, it acts as a data collector for the steel tube or pipe process.  Immediate intervention procedure can be executed as Radian can alert the relevant personnel in the case of any anomalies detected. This is made possible by its event-driven signals based on the control recipes configured. Besides that, the events are recorded in a database where they can be made available for further analysis. This provides a systematic approach for improvement in the manufacturing process itself to minimize such defects in the future.

In steel tube and pipe manufacturing process, various factors could cost defects in the final product. Radian is a comprehensive solution that monitors various parameters such as cut length, straightness,  diameter & ovality, skelp and the welding process itself.  It is a powerful tool to help ensure the best finished-product is delivered to clients. This will ultimately result in higher yields,  a lower total cost of quality, and higher profit.

Interested in understanding how Radian could help your steel tube manufacturing facilities to derive the optimum cost of quality? Talk to our experts at Invisuale now.