Sustainability

Recent cyberattacks highlight the growing threat to operational technology (OT) used in critical infrastructure. Whether you work for an infrastructure owner/operator or are a consumer of an infrastructure service, recent events have made it clear that cybersecurity is an important factor in…

Quality management system software helps life sciences organizations manage documents, training, quality events, change controls, audits, and other regulated processes in one controlled environment.

Most electronic quality management systems (eQMS) offer some version of these core…

In the world of mining, structural collapse is a worst-case scenario. Whenever ground gives way, it puts miners at risk—and it often leads to site closure.

Once all miners are accounted for, it’s time for the recovery operation to begin. Limited visibility often means it’s…

Ask a premarket team where corrective and preventive action (CAPA) sits on the priority list, and it usually lands below design controls, risk management, and the submission itself. The reasoning is easy to follow. Nothing has shipped, so there are no complaints to investigate, no returned…

The easiest AI costs to count could become the least important part of the story. SemiAnalysis gives a better name to the harder problem: dark output, the economic value created by AI that remains invisible or badly distorted in GDP, price measures, labor data, and industry accounts.

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At a typical manufacturer, the cost of poor quality runs to 15–20% of sales. Shellye Archambeau, a Quality Digest contributor, once put a face on that number: A $250 million company added up its repair, rework, scrap, warranty, and write-off costs, and found they equaled 20% of sales. That’s one…