Content by Jeff Dewar
Mon, 05/11/2026 - 12:03
The next Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC) takes place July 20–24, 2026, at the Fairmont Dallas in Dallas. If you want to know why it matters and who might be there, read on.
There’s a moment, familiar to anyone who works in metrology…
Wed, 04/29/2026 - 12:03
There are always good reasons to attend the American Society for Quality’s World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI). The sessions are substantive, the networking is genuine, and the exhibit hall gives you a concentrated look at where the…
Tue, 12/23/2025 - 12:03
When we set out to film Episode 2, we faced a fundamental challenge: How do you make people care about errors they can’t see?
(See all the episodes here.)
Error propagation is critical to metrology, the science of measurement, but it’s abstract.…
Wed, 11/12/2025 - 12:03
I’m thrilled to announce something we’ve been working on for a year and a half—a project that took us 30,000 miles across America and into the heart of industries that most people never see. On Nov. 12, 2025, Quality Digest will premiere the first…
Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:03
Tom Taormina, CMC, esteemed quality consultant and long-time contributor to Quality Digest, has passed away. He is survived by his wife, Midge, and their three children. Recently, Taormina was working with Quality Digest and a consortium of others…
Mon, 11/07/2022 - 11:03
This is the final installment of a five-part series.
We’ve considered two quality organizations. The first, ASQ, has been around since 1946. Founded by none other than W. Edwards Deming, Joseph M. Juran, Walter A. Shewhart, and George D. Edwards.…
Tue, 11/01/2022 - 12:03
This is the fourth installment of a five-part series.
As detailed in our third installment, ASQE is a new legal entity connected to the ASQ we all know and love. It’s a trade organization to which organizations, rather than individuals, can belong.…
Mon, 10/17/2022 - 12:03
In this third installment of our five-part series, we talk with Jim Templin, CEO of ASQE.
Yes, you read that right, ASQE. As in ASQ Excellence. It’s an entirely new legal entity connected at the hip to the ASQ we all know and love. It’s a trade…
Wed, 09/07/2022 - 12:03
This is the second installment of a five-part series.
Some weeks ago, I attended ASQ’s 2022 World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI) with Quality Digest’s editor in chief, Dirk Dusharme, in Anaheim, California. It was the first in-person…