Price Quality Before Failure Prices You
Apply Cost of Quality categories to decide where preventive checks reduce expensive reprints and customer failures.
The move: move quality cost upstream. Cost of Quality is not a slogan about making perfect parts. It is an accounting lens for where quality work happens. In a 3D printing business, prevention includes design-for-print rules, dry filament, bed leveling routines, resin handling, profile validation, and customer approval of tolerances. Appraisal includes first-article inspection, caliper checks, surface review, count verification, and packaging checks. Internal failure is the spaghetti print, warped batch, brittle part, or support scar you catch before shipping. External failure is the same defect found by the buyer. Prevention beats rescue Prevention feels invisible because nothing dramatic happens.…
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