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Why 'fast' must go out of fashion

Published: 7 Mar 2025

The fast fashion industry raises a number of questions around quality control, supply chains and sustainability. Dr Pauline Bremner, an associate professor and lecturer in retail and fashion management at Robert Gordon University near Aberdeen, discusses how a greater emphasis on quality is at the heart of mitigating its impacts.

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Location
  • Virtual/Online
Type Special Interest Group
Branch Scotland

Quality in Fast Fashion

Join the Scottish Network for an engaging webinar exploring the supply chain of fast fashion.

The evolving role of quality risk management

Published: 12 Oct 2020

Jayet Moon, CQP MCQI, Quality Engineering Lead at Terumo Medical Corporation, US, and Veronica Cavendish-Stephens, Principal at Auchincloss-Stephens, explains how quality risk management is developing in line with business responses to Covid-19.

Error-proofing production for medical devices

Published: 7 Jul 2020

Anca Thompson, Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer at Sanmina Corporation, San Jose, California, explores how medical device manufacturers can error-proof their production process using technology and automation.

Applying the Deming System of Profound Knowledge

Published: 16 Apr 2020

Christopher Chinapoo, Managing Director at Five Star Quality and Justice Associates in Trinidad, explains how Deming’s management principles can be applied to improve business supply chains.   

BaxterStorey: Our sustainability journey

Published: 2 Aug 2019

Henry Cawson, Sustainability Manager at hospitality provider Baxterstorey, reveals how the company is improving its sustainability practices by transitioning to ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Certification‎.

Fish Fraud: How the Marine Stewardship Council tackles unregulated fishing

Published: 2 Jun 2017

In the early 1990s the impact of overfishing on the marine environment and on seafood supplies was reaching a critical point. This year the Marine Stewardship Council is celebrating its 20th anniversary and the picture is looking far healthier. In an extract from June's Quality World magazine, Dina Patel speaks to supply chain standards director Michael Platt and manager Jaco Barendse to discover how they are leading the sustainable seafood movement.