Reliability activities serve one purpose: to support better decision making. That is all they do. Reliability work may reveal design weaknesses, which we can decide to address.

Does your organization benefit from lessons learned? Does it learn from previous quality issues? A vast amount of learning takes place every day in every manufacturing facility.

MELD Manufacturing has commercialized a metal production process that promises to enable 3D printing to carve out a greater role in the manufacturing sector.

Return on investment (ROI) is the subject of many discussions about ergonomics, and rightfully so.

A few months back, I was reading a really good article from The Wall Street Journal, titled “Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tel

I love to cook. When I make good food and share it with others, they will take a bite and look as excited to eat it as I was to create it. They might not understand the subtleties that went into it, but they understand the product.

It’s an open secret that many automotive and aerospace manufacturers have unacceptably high defects and costs. And where defects are on the rise, quality costs aren’t far behind.

Tensile testing of materials is critical to a wide array of industries, which means preparing specimens for testing is equally important.

Policies define expectations and boundaries for behavior, but these expectations frequently go unmet.

Story update 7/13/2018: This story was updated with a link to the released version of standard E3125–17.