It’s hard to fathom that Quality Digest, a little Northern California media company respected by all and beloved by many, turned 40 in November 2021. For a human being, 40 may be the new 30, but it’s still just creeping up on middle age.

No matter which quality management methodology, technique, or fad du jour you chose during the past 40 years, from quality circles to TQM to Six Sigma, all had one thing in common: data. In manufacturing this eventually meant measurement data.

Quality Digest (QD) was born 40 years ago.

I’m a chemical engineer. The fundamentals of the chemical engineering profession were laid down 150 years ago by Osborne Reynolds.

Although ISO 19011—“Guidelines for auditing management systems” has included language about remote quality management system (QMS) auditing since the 2018 revision, this became a reality for many of us in March 2020 with the onset of Covid-19 and the mass lockdowns t

Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink-jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle.

The Georgia Institute of Technology was awarded a grant from the U.S.

(Argon: Frisco, TX) -- Argon Medical Devices Inc., a leading manufacturer of medical devices for interventional procedures, announces the acquisition of Wisconsin-based Matrex Mold and Tool Inc., a custom mold manufacturer for plastic in

The latest book I'm reviewing is about data and critical thinking, and it often makes you laugh.

In what has become the most watched commencement speech ever, Steve Jobs had this advice for the class of 2005 at Stanford Universi