Chad Kymal¹ gave an excellent overview of the ISO 45001 occupational health and safety (OHS) standard that was released in March 2018.

The news that General Electric ousted CEO John Flannery was surprising to many of us, and

Perhaps the reader recognizes d2 as slang for “designated driver,” but quality professionals will recognize it as a control chart constant used to estimate short-term variation of a process.

Last year I was invited to give a lecture on critical thinking to the U.S. Navy. I opened my presentation with a story I’d read in Reader’s Digest magazine as a child.

Measurement devices in manufacturing facilities are as ubiquitous as Skittles in trick-or-treat bags. Some companies have thousands of devices in their inventories and depend on them to provide accurate information.

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.

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.

In this episode we look at a history of quality, how you serve your customer in the housing industry, and what makes a good review.

During the late 1990s, I was working in the Silicon Valley for a medical device company, responsible for a drug-infusion pump manufacturing operation.