Are You Anchoring Yourself to Poor Quality Data?
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Credit: "Maze" by Bob May
Have you changed your views about Covid-19 months into this pandemic? Or are you anchoring to the same views you held last spring?
How to Improve Your Hiring and Retention With a Systems-Thinking Approach
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If you are like many small and medium-sized manufacturers, finding good help has been a pain point for many years, and it has become even more difficult during the Covid-19 pandemic. The market forces driving that dynamic are not likely to change soon.
Disruptive Innovation: Where, Not What
First, a slight diatribe. Why is it that company leaders think their people can do successful innovation when they don’t share a common language?
The Butterfly Defect
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If you are a quality engineer or maybe even the quality manager of a manufacturing company, investing in quality improvements may be a no-brainer. Defects are inherently undesirable, right?
Where Manufacturing Is Growing (and Where It Is Not)
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During the past few years, I have written more than a few blogs and papers looking at manufacturing pro
Fine-Tuning Remote Audits During Covid-19
Unlike Covid-19, remote audits aren’t unprecedented. Remote audits didn’t start with the pandemic, although it has forced more companies to use them than previously. At MasterControl, we’ve been doing remote audits for years for our international customers.
Conducting Remote Assessments: Lessons Learned
Recently there have been a number of articles whose authors discuss conducting assessments remotely because of the pandemic.
How mRNA Vaccines Work
As the weather cools, the number of infections of the Covid-19 pandemic are rising sharply.
Developing an Exposure Notification System to Blunt the Spread of Covid and Future Pandemics
I am part of a grassroots effort at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is developing an exposure notification system for pandemics in general, though we hope it could be used in at least a limited fashion during the current Covid-19 pandem
Zero Trust Cybersecurity: ‘Never Trust, Always Verify’
Huh? What? At least that was my response the first time I heard the words "zero trust" when I started working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in the fall of 2018.