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Making the Most of Quality Data

Douglas C. Fair

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Root Cause Analysis: Not Out of the Mountains, Yet

Matthew Barsalou

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The Traveling Ohno Circle

Christopher Martin

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Same Old Routine With FMEA?

Michael Ray Fincher

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How Your Personal Relationships Impact Your Professional Ones

Roger Lehman

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Metallurgy is similar to tempering chocolate, in that solidification problems can cause flaws in specialty metals

Innovation

Revolutionizing the Art of Metal Fabrication

NETL

Contrary to that old cooking adage, “a watched pot never boils,” keeping a careful eye on things—in the kitchen or in the laboratory—can be essential to making a useable (or edible) final product...

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Understanding AS9100 Revision D

Intertek

Sponsored Content As widely useful and broadly applicable as it may be, the ISO 9001 standard covering general requirements for quality management systems (QMS) cannot address all stakeholder needs...

Lean

Document the Current State

Kevin Meyer

Before you can improve something, you must first have a very clear understanding of what its current state is. Don’t assume you know what it is. Go to the gemba, be it the factory floor, the...

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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

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Transition Planning for AS9100 Revision D

Intertek

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New Language in AS9100 Revision D

Intertek

Sponsored Content For organizations within the aerospace sector, certification to the AS9100...

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Making the Most of Quality Data

Douglas C. Fair

Plant-floor quality issues tend to focus on a company’s technical resources. When products fall...

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Two New Commandments of Customer Engagement

Mark Lee Hunter

The digital revolution is transforming the relationship between consumers and companies. Nearly...

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Tucking Into NIST’s 3D Printer Testbed

NIST

Printing 3D metal objects is a booming industry, with the market for products and services worth...

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Inside Quality Digest Live for June 23, 2017

Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest

I n our June 23, 2017, episode of QDL we look at STEM education, personal kanban, and common...

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Root Cause Analysis: Not Out of the Mountains, Yet

Matthew Barsalou

As you drive east on I-70 coming from the Rockies, there is a point where you seem to have stopped...

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