As part of its effort to address the changing landscape around artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices, the U.S.

Tom Taormina, esteemed quality consultant and long-time contributor to Quality Digest, has passed away.

Ready for that long-awaited summer vacation? First, you’ll need to pack all items required for your trip into a suitcase, making sure everything fits securely without crushing anything fragile.

On April 8, 2025, a driverless Zoox robotaxi misjudged an approaching vehicle, braked too late, and sideswiped it at 43 mph on the Las Vegas Strip.

On Dec. 21, 2022, just as peak holiday season travel was getting underway, Southwest Airlines went through a cascading series of failures in its scheduling, initially triggered by severe winter weather in the Denver area.

Hearing aids, mouth guards, dental implants, and other highly tailored structures are often products of 3D printing.

When quality failures go public, it’s not just your product on the line—it’s also your reputation, compliance status, and workforce morale.

Humanetics is the world’s largest manufacturer of anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs), commonly known as crash test dummies.

When manufacturing tolerances shrink to the micron, and part geometries become increasingly complex, the margin for measurement error disappears.

I am a longtime admirer of George Spencer-Brown’s “Laws of Form.” In this article, I explore how his notion of reentry helps illuminate the paradoxes and blind spots