72 • Warranty Claims Reduction
Using your warranty operations to feed detailed, timely information to
the quality improvement task is critical. Without complete and correct
information, true quality improvement and the warranty reduction it can
achieve will not be fully realized. Quality improvement has great poten-
tial for achieving long- term and permanent savings in warranty costs.
Successful quality initiatives also make improvements that involve reduc-
ing problems coming o the manufacturing line before product ever leaves
the factory oor, and that means fewer defects reaching the customer.
Since warranty operations involve product only aer it has le the fac-
tory and is in the hands of the customer, the quality information obtained ...