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Jean Wenzel
- Nov 16
- 3 min
The DFARS Interim Rule and What It Means For Heat Treaters
Bluestreak™ Reading Time: 4 minutes DFARS Interim Rule The DoD published the DFARS (Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement)...
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Jean Wenzel
- Nov 7
- 1 min
Secure Your Data. Secure Your Future.
The Department of Defense is becoming more stringent on who is awarded contracts from business that are not DFARS, NIST, CMMC compliant.
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Jean Wenzel
- Oct 26
- 9 min
Heat Treating, Additive Manufacturing, and Serialization
Bluestreak I Bright AM™ Reading Time: 6 minutes Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a disruptive technology trend that is continuing to...
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- Oct 3
- 4 min
Keeping the Important, Important
Limited resource of time. Busy work activity should not be confused with results.
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Jean Wenzel
- Sep 29
- 5 min
The Right Software Can Drive Quality Home
Bluestreak Reading Time: 4 minutes For too many manufacturers, the cost of quality management is seen as an expense that’s necessary to...
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Jean Wenzel
- Sep 19
- 2 min
How to Tell If Your Quality Control Plan Is Failing
Bluestreak Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Tell If Your Quality Control Plan Is Failing Unacceptable levels of scrap and rework might be...
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Jean Wenzel
- Sep 9
- 1 min
How to Drive Production Quality and Consistency
How can you ensure employee processes and quality checks are on track? When employees don’t follow process and quality standards, you won’t
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Jean Wenzel
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Eight Signs Your Production Software Needs an Update
Bluestreak™ Reading Time: 3 minutes Outdated Production Software forces you to live with known bugs causes compatibility issues, exposes...
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Jean Wenzel
- Sep 1
- 3 min
You’ll Always Come Out Ahead by Investing in Quality - Do it once. Do it right.
Quality is as much of a people issue as a process and technology one.
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Jean Wenzel
- Aug 25
- 2 min
Eliminate Costly Errors With Automatic Electronic Data Exchange
Electronic Data Exchange will help you LOCK IN your largest and best customers so they won't think about going to your competition.
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Jean Wenzel
- Aug 15
- 3 min
Improving the Customer Experience to Drive Revenue and Save Costs
Bluestreak Reading Time: 3 minutes Even in this day and age, some people still need convincing that improving the customer experience...
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Jean Wenzel
- Aug 8
- 2 min
Minimize the Pain to Change -- Creating Value in Times of Change
Bluestreak Reading Time: 3 minutes Just about every time you have a conversation about a heat-treating business making changes for the...
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Jean Wenzel
- Aug 4
- 4 min
Cybersecurity Desk: Why and How To Become Compliant
Bluestreak Consulting Reading Time: 4 minutes Cybersecurity: it’s important for more than just keeping checking accounts safe. Banks,...
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Jean Wenzel
- Jul 26
- 4 min
Managing Change for Best Results
Bluestreak Reading Time: 3 minutes Most heat treaters you talk to today are continually looking at ways to effectively apply new...
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Jean Wenzel
- Jul 21
- 3 min
Change Value Without Changing Price in 2022?
Bluestreak Reading Time: 3 minutes “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” -Warren Buffett- Here’s another quote from Conrad...
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Jean Wenzel
- Jul 8
- 2 min
WHAT IS CUI AND DO YOU HAVE IT?
Bluestreak Consulting™ Reading Time: 3 minutes CUI is government-created or owned information that requires safeguarding or dissemination...
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Jean Wenzel
- Jul 5
- 1 min
If You’re Not Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), You’re Not Secure!
Bluestreak Consulting™ Reading Time: 2 minutes In today’s world, using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is critical to your business to...
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Jean Wenzel
- Mar 28
- 4 min
5 Strategies to Reduce Scrap and Rework in Manufacturing
What Causes Scrap/Rework in Manufacturing? Every time you produce scrap or have to rework parts, you’re increasing the cost of production.
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Jean Wenzel
- Mar 24
- 3 min
4 Reasons Manufacturers Fail to Reduce Production Cost
4 Reasons Manufacturers Fail to Reduce Production Cost
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