Zero Defects IQ Test in Construction: Anyone can run a ZD program

Formal quality management certification is not a prerequisite to run a quality management program.

The next true-or-false statement from Philip B. Crosby's  Quality Is Free is “Anyone can run a ZD program.” As I mentioned in my last post, if you have already answered true or false to the ten statements, to test your understanding of [...]

Zero Defects Construction Part 2 – ZD Needs Management Support

The next true-or-false statement from Philip B. Crosby's  Quality Is Free is "Zero Defects needs management support." Like I mentioned in my last post, if you have already answered true or false to the ten statements, to test your understanding of the concept of Zero Defects, please read ahead and continue. If [...]

Zero Defects Construction Part I – Worker Motivation Concept

In my zero defects kick-off post, the ten true-or-false statements presented from Philip B. Crosby's Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business test your understanding of the concept of Zero Defects or “ZD.” As Crosby [...]

Quality Is Free: Zero Defects Construction Programs IQ Test

In the book Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business, Philip B. Crosby presents the following ten true-or-false statements, to test the reader’s understanding of the concept of Zero Defects or “ZD.” As Crosby wittingly remarks, as [...]

Enterprise Quality Management: On Non-financial Measures

Point-of-construction data feeds quality management metrics.

In The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton assert that measuring business strategy needs to be an integrated balance of both financial and non-financial measures. Generally, it is the finanicial measures that are the well-established and well-adopted metrics, relatively easy to [...]

Enterprise Quality Management: Process Quality Measurement in Construction

In the seminal book The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action[1], authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton highlight the following seven metrics for process quality measurement:

Process part-per-million defect rates
Yields (ratio of good items produced to good items entering the process)
Waste
Scrap
Rework
Returns
Percentage of processes under statistical process control[2]

The above seven metrics generally relate to the [...]

Three Exciting Things About Using an iPad on Your Construction Job Site

The iPad has arrived, and we love it.  Why?  We’ve already talked about the big game changing things like how it is cheaper, lighter, and the battery will last a long time.  And, after some hands-on time this week with a few iPads at Vela, we have more thoughts to share on why you’ll want [...]

Construction Content: Who owns the data?

Today, I’m blogging about part 1 in a new series on data ownership in the collaborative and cooperative environment of database-driven construction management for the field, at the point of construction…

As Vela software customers all share a synchronized and centralized hosted database, structured by role-based access and permissions, from time to time, design and [...]