Story links for July 1, 2016

American Manufacturing Is Globally Competitive

Mayo Clinic engineer says healthcare analytics need a system-based approach

When Online Customers Block Your Product

Are You a Human or a Robot?

Story links for June 24, 2016

Combating the Cult of Busy

Why Leading Global Companies Are Using a New Food Waste Standard to Reduce Waste

CMSC Corner: Interview with Rina Molari Korgel of the Coordinate Metrology Society

How Things Break—and Why Scientists Want to Know

How Can Hospitals Possibly Prepare for Disasters

Story links for June 17, 2016

Five Archetypes of a Chief Digital Officer

Epson Moverio Partners With Atheer to Deliver Remote Augmented Reality Collaboration Platform

Preventing Social Media Armageddon

HxGN LIVE 2016 update
Plus an interview with Norbert Hanke, president of Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

Story links for June 10, 2016

ACSI Telecom Report Shows Competitive Industries Have Higher Customer Satisfaction

Breaking Into the Boardroom
Plus: An interview with Dan Jacob, research analyst at LNS Research
Webinar: "Quality Management in the Board Room: Building the Executive Business Case for EQMS"

The Seven Stages of Innovation Grief

Tech Corner: OLYMPUS CIX90 -- Technical cleanliness inspection system.

Story links for June 3, 2016

Digitized, Not Monetized: Productivity Gains Still Elude New Digital Economy

3D Scanning and Printing Revolutionizes Scientific Discovery

Presidential Candidates Want to Bring Back Millions of Outsourced Jobs

Changes and Implementation Strategies for AS9100 Revision D
Plus: An interview with Chad Kymal, CTO and founder of Omnex Inc.
WEBINAR: “Changes and Implementation Strategies for AS9100 Rev. D” Tues. June 7, 2016, at 11 a.m. Eastern/2 p.m. Pacific

The Mother of Modern Management

Story links for May 27, 2016

Who Would've Thought Your Idea Could Solve National Challenges?

Safety Standards for Ambulances—STAT

Would You Like Coffee With Your Muda?

Visual Scheduling: A Problem-Solving Mechanism
Plus: An interview with Gwendolyn Galsworth, founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute

Manipulating Consumers Is Not Marketing

Story links for May 20, 2016

National Inventor's Month: You Can Make It If You Try

World Metrology Day Celebrates a Link That Binds Humanity
CMSC Corner: An interview with Michael Raphael founder and president of Direct Dimensions Inc.

When Chemistry Meets Marketing

Passing an FDA Quality System Inspection
Plus: An interview with Grant Ramaley, Co-chairman of the Regulatory Affairs and Standards Committee for the Dental Trade Alliance.

Story links for May 13, 2016

NIST's Million-Pound Weight Stack Restoration Is Complete

Cellphone Principles Help Microfluidic Chip Digitize Information on Living Cells

The Order for Kaizen

Make a Mint Using Measurement Science

Six Steps to Creating Your Project Budget

Story links for May 6, 2016

Optimizing Large-Scale 3D Printing of Cars

The Rise and Fall of Theranos

Four Steps to an Audit-Proof Measurement System
Plus: An interview with Eric Gasper, product manager and trainer at PQ Systems

A Break to Reflect and Unlearn

Story links for April 29, 2016

Click here to watch our first episode, from April 29th, 2011! 

Story links for April 22, 2016

Gartner Announces Security & Risk Management Summit 2016

The Power of C.P.R.

Risk Management Outside Your Four Walls
Plus: An interview with Tim Lozier of EtQ

How to Align Actions With Intentions

Story links for April 15, 2016

Four Organizations Honored With 2015 Baldrige Award

Researchers Develop First Widely Useful Standard for Breast MRI

Lean Six Sigma Applications in Healthcare
Plus: An interview with Kimberly Watson-Hemphill, co-author of Innovating Lean Six Sigma

Data Torturing in the Baseball World, Part 1 and Part 2

Four Steps to Build a Quality Network Through Improved Supplier Management
Plus: An interview with Joby George, product manager at Sparta Systems Inc.

Story links for April 8, 2016

Plotting the Complex Path of Products

CMSC Corner: Interview with Ed Morse, professor of mechanical engineering at UNC Charlotte

Embrace the Fuzzy Crystal Ball

Tech Corner: Gardco USB Digital Microscope

Story links for April 1, 2016

Health Plan Member Satisfaction Climbs

Self-Driving Cars Have a Messaging Problem

The Nuts and Bolts of Risk Management

The Pioneering Life of Programmer Ethel Marden

Story links for March 25, 2016

Things You Need to Know About Health-Centric Lighting

Brain Imaging Triggers Marketing Breakthroughs

Leading Your Team Through Failure and Success

Complex Global Supply Chains Simplified

'Us' vs. 'Them' Inc.
Plus: An interview with Kelly Graves

Story links for March 18, 2016

Mercedes Kicks Robots From the Production Line

No Evidence That Insurance Market Consolidation Leads to Greater Innovation

Why Does It Take So Long to Produce New Car Colors?

CMSC Corner: Interview with Rina Molari-Korgel, portable metrology application engineer at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence and CMSC executive committee chairperson

Story links for March 11, 2016

Book: The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure, by Henry Petroski

Open Source, Open Standards, Open Minds: ANSI Announces Free Event

Bump and Grind

The User Experience: Why Data—Not Just Design—Hits the Sweet Spot

A Stake in Innovation

Story links for March 4, 2016

DOE Funds 'HPC for Manufacturing' Projects

Retailers Compared, Lower Satisfaction Results

Risk = np, Not p

What Is Risk-Based Thinking?

Traditional Accounting Systems—They Don't Properly Value Time

Story links for February 26, 2016

Risk-Based Thinking Handbook

Could 3D Printed 'Spermbots' Help Solve Male Infertility?

Creativity Is Not an Accident

Gemba Walks or Video Surveillance?

Imprisoned by Statistics

Story links for February 19, 2016

'Snow' Better Way to Clean Coordinate Measuring Machine Probes

NIST Performs Critical Measurements for James Webb Space Telescope

Ludicrous Speed

Make Reliability a Part of Every Decision

Tech Corner: BX3M Microscope with Stream version 2.1.

Story links for February 12, 2016

Apply for ASQ Certifications at the Quest for Excellence Conference

Going Nuts Over NIST's Standard Reference Peanut Butter

Interview with Keith Bevan, Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) executive vice chair
CMSC Resources:
Conference Registration
Conference information and justification letter
Sponsorships
Apply for certification
Call for papers

The Oracle at IBM

Beware of Lean Hypocrisy

Story links for February 5, 2016

Millions of 'Hidden Workers' Used in Company Supply Chains

MIT Students Win First Round of SpaceX Hyperloop Contest

Personal Kanban Celebrates Five Years With an Online Course
Plus: An interview with Jim Benson, CEO of Modus Institute, creator of Personal Kanban

Researchers Outline Physics of Metal 3D Printing

The Expanding Role of Leadership in ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015
Plus: An interview with Chad Kymal, CTO and founder of Omnex Inc.

Story links for January 29, 2016

Lighting the Way Toward Better Measurements

You Wouldn't Recognize This Company

Building Comprehensive Quality Capabilities
Plus: An interview with Joe Humm, vice president, global sales operations, Sparta Systems

Process Excellence Makes Sales Problems Solvable

Tech Corner: traqpath, an EtQ product

Story links for January 22, 2016

ANSI Releases Revised 'United States Standards Strategy

New Lab to Give Nation's Researchers Remote Access to Robots

Process Improvement on Process Improvement

Lessons from Software Development Can Help Create Dynamic Clinical Practices

Are Your Goals Right for You?

Quality Digest Knowledge Guides

Story links for January 15, 2016

New Kid in the C-Suite

Improving Gun Safety With Force Measurement

Lean, Quality, and Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015
Plus: An interview with Mike Micklewright, lean trainer and consultant

The Wait Is Over

CMSC Corner: Interview with Ron Hicks, president of Automated Precision Inc. (API)
For more information on PrecisionPath Consortium contact Ron Hicks at ron.hicks@apisensor.com