Quality You Can Repeat: How OPEX Corp. Lifted First-Pass Yield on Every Line
This webinar was originally broadcast on August 13, 2026.
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Summary
On a complex assembly line, quality can turn into a losing game of catch-up. You inspect at the end, rework whatever fails, and chase the same defects over and over without ever seeing which ones are actually costing you. First-pass yield stays stuck, and every fix feels like firefighting.
OPEX Corporation, a manufacturer of high-volume warehouse and parcel-handling automation equipment, lived that, with first-pass yield in the single digits. Then they changed their approach: Instead of inspecting quality at the end, they built it into each step of the build and made every defect visible and traceable. The team could finally see what was costing them the most and fix it at the source, and first-pass yield climbed from single digits to more than 80%, line after line.
Join Tanya Hamlin, Project Manager for Business Systems at OPEX Corp., and Joelle Dennig, Customer Success Manager at Tulip, for a fireside chat on exactly how they did it, and why OPEX Corp. is exploring where AI takes quality next. If you're tired of catching quality problems too late, this webinar is for you.
What you'll learn:
- Why inspecting quality at the end keeps you in rework, and what it looks like to move the check into each step instead.
- How to make defects visible and traceable so you can fix what is actually costing you, not the same things on repeat.
- How real-time production dashboards can drive adoption and stronger cross-team collaboration.
- How OPEX Corp. repeats the same approach on every new line to lift first-pass yield consistently, not just once.
Speakers
Tanya Hamlin
Project Manager - Business Systems
OPEX Corporation
Tanya Hamlin is a Business Systems Project Manager at OPEX Corporation with nine years of experience supporting business systems, operations, supply chain, and manufacturing process improvement. She has worked closely with cross-functional teams to improve system processes, strengthen operational visibility, and support better decision-making across the organization.
Her work has included supply planning improvements, order management workflows, forecasting practices, and operational reporting, with a focus on making complex processes easier to understand, adopt, and sustain.
Joelle Dennig
Customer Success Manager
Tulip
Joelle Dennig is a Customer Success Manager at Tulip Interfaces and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She began her career as a manufacturing engineer, spending six years deploying advanced manufacturing technology at companies such as Stanley Black & Decker and Tiffany & Co.
Today she works with Tulip customers to turn their operations data into measurable gains in productivity, quality, and efficiency.
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