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How to Find Out If an ISO 9001 Certificate Is Valid

Miriam Boudreaux

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Replacing the Risk Priority Number

William A. Levinson

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Employee Motivation

Kelly Graves

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Risk-Based Thinking in Planning (6.0): Using the Business Operating System Approach

Chad Kymal

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Lean Thinking 4.0

Robert A. Brown

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Innovation

The Traveling Ohno Circle

Christopher Martin

Many of us are familiar with the concept of the Ohno Circle, innovated by Taiichi Ohno at Toyota during the 1940s. While familiarity with the technique and the goals it sets to accomplish is one...

Management

How Your Personal Relationships Impact Your Professional Ones

Roger Lehman

Lucy felt hollow and dissatisfied. She was a star performer and had just helped her team clinch a large government deal that they had been working on for months. At the celebration that evening,...

Standards

How to Find Out If an ISO 9001 Certificate Is Valid

Miriam Boudreaux

The first thing you need to do when you are evaluating a potential supplier based on their ISO 9001 certificate is request that they provide you with a copy of the certificate itself. If the company...

Articles & News

News

Automated Precision Introduces New OT2 Core Wireless Laser Tracker

New unit uses wireless and controller-free laser tracker technology

Putting Waste to Good Use

Drip irrigation targets the plant and not the soil

New System Allows Optical “Deep Learning”

New approach uses light instead of electricity

PosiTest DFT Coating Thickness Gage

Features faster measurement speed, onscreen averaging, and auto-rotating display

Seven Systems Principles You Need to Know Before Implementing IIoT

If you want to understand a system, try and change it

Feedback Sought for ISO Survey on Services and Management System Standards

Survey deadline is June 30, 2017

3D Printing Method Creates Shape-Shifting Objects

Components will be designed from the onset to inhabit multiple configurations during service

Managing to Make a Difference

How to engage, retain, and develop talent for maximum performance

Precision Farming Takes Off

More than seven billion lives may depend on it

Features

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Lean Thinking 4.0

Robert A. Brown

Lean thinking has taken its rightful place in the effort to improve efficiency in manufacturing....

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Five Costly Mistakes Applying SPC

Steve Daum

I have daily conversations with manufacturer plant managers, quality managers, engineers,...

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How Your Bonus Affects Your Colleagues’ Behavior

Phanish Puranam

When organizations change how they compensate employees they are embarking on a social experiment...

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Replacing the Risk Priority Number

William A. Levinson

‘We’ve always done it that way” explains why many suboptimal and even obsolete methods are taken...

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A New Spin on the ‘Stand in a Circle’ Exercise, Part 2

Bonnie Stone

In part one of “New Spin on the ‘Stand in a Circle’ Exercise,” I described how Taiichi Ohno...

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Risk-Based Thinking in Planning (6.0): Using the Business Operating System Approach

Chad Kymal

In the 1990s, Omnex worked with Ford Motor Co. to develop the Ford quality operating system...

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Inside Quality Digest Live for June 16, 2017

Mike Richman

The June 16 episode of QDL included my hot take on Hexagon’s ginormous user conference as well as...

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