What a week. On April 30, 2018, there were top-level delegations from two disciplines: In Beijing the Chinese hosted a cabinet-level delegation of U.S. trade representatives; and in Seattle, the ASQ hosted the Sino-U.S.

Tensions are escalating between China and the United States over trade. The Chinese government has announced retaliatory measures on a range of U.S.

In part one of this article, we discussed the origins of the United States and China, and how their relationship began to emerge.

In part one we saw that China has made great strides in terms of product quality, notably in the tech sector. But it still has a long way to go in other products.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Japanese products were synonymous with cheaply made. Anyone over the age of 50 probably remembers cheap Japanese transistor radios when they were a kid. We all believed, in the day, that the more transistors a radio had, the better.

In June of 1950, W. Edwards Deming began offering training to the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) on the precepts of statistical process control.

Markets and manufacturing practices continue to evolve, and companies now outsource to an increasing number of global manufacturing and supply partners.

The importance of supply chain solutions relative to a company’s efforts to maintain and improve quality are almost impossible to underplay.

A couple of weeks ago I posed the question, “Are you overproducing improvements?” and compared a typical improvement “blitz” with a large monument ma

Technology giant HP has developed and launched multi-jet fusion (MJF), an industrial-grade 3D printing technology that quickly and accurately produces functional prototypes