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Inside Quality Digest Live for November 30, 2018
By: Mike Richman 12/07/2018

One of our favorite things on our show is to welcome guests, either via Skype or live in the studio. And this week, we were joined by three of our great partners. Here’s a closer look:

Interview: Nicole Radziwill of Intelex

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A Time to Be Thankful
By: Mike Richman 11/21/2018

This Thursday, for the first Thanksgiving in decades, I won’t be watching football, drinking beer, and stuffing myself into oblivion. Instead, I’ll be serving the homeless, giving clothes, and making myself useful.

Thanksgiving is always a time to give thanks—I mean, it’s right there in the holiday’s name. This year, however, for those of us in northern California, the act of being grateful has taken on previously unimaginable dimensions.

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Quality’s Role in Biomedical Morals and Ethics
By: Mike Richman 11/13/2018

The future is the ultimate abstraction; anyone who has ever attempted to discern the nature of tomorrow by looking at the yesterdays leading up to today knows that prediction is a fool’s errand. That’s the unfortunate reality for weather forecasters, stockbrokers, sports bookmakers, political pundits, and writers of science fiction. Yet people keep trying to project trend lines and read tea leaves, maybe because we like to wonder about the moral and ethical choices that some future state will force us into. Or maybe these kinds of stories just make good copy.

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Speed, Accuracy, Ease of Use
By: Mike Richman 11/12/2018

Technological breakthroughs tend to change the way users perceive of a problem, offering a solution that, in retrospect, comes to seem obvious and apparent. So it is with the new FARO 8-Axis Quantum ScanArm and FaroArm.

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Inside Quality Digest Live for Nov. 2, 2018
By: Mike Richman 11/05/2018

Our industry embodies many aspects, but “Big Q” quality generally involves issues affecting management, measurement, and methodologies. This week on QDL, we covered all of them, and more. Let’s look closer:

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Preparing for Quality
By: Mike Richman 10/31/2018

For manufacturers in diverse sectors such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, and medical device, there’s little question that ensuring great quality would be impossible without the proper testing of materials. And proper material testing applications begin with reliable and repeatable preparation methods.

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Inside Quality Digest Live for October 19, 2018
By: Mike Richman 10/24/2018

Leaders lead. Those two simple words conceal the complicated fact that being a change agent means confronting the failures of the past and confidently facing the promise of the future. Stories addressing these facts, along with hot takes on current news and a preview of an exciting upcoming webinar, composed this past week’s QDL. Here’s a closer look:

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Making Sense of Manufacturing Data
By: Mike Richman 10/17/2018

This is the second half of our two-part interview with Doug Fair, who is the chief operating officer of InfinityQS. In part 1, we chatted with Fair about data gluttony, the process for uncovering actionable information, and the power of sampling.

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Inside Quality Digest’s Second Annual Virtual Test and Measurement Expo
By: Mike Richman 10/11/2018

One of the highlights on our calendar each year is the first Friday in October, which is Manufacturing Day here in the United States. This event offers us the perfect opportunity to celebrate the centrality of manufacturing as a driver of the economy, innovation, automation, education, and lots more.

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Previewing Quality Digest’s Virtual Test and Measurement Expo
By: Mike Richman 10/02/2018

To all of you out there who are fans of our live video programming, note that in lieu of our regularly scheduled episode of Quality Digest Live this Friday, we’re instead bringing you a two-hour special broadcast, our second annual Virtual Test and Measurement Expo. The date is important, because this Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, is Manufacturing Day across the United States.