Difficult decisions don’t end once you’ve made them. The biggest challenges come with execution risk. Does your decision get carried out the way you wanted it to? The key to successful execution is good change management.

If you want to make a successful executive decision, communicate the rationale for the decision to the broader organization. Lay out the context for your…

Metrology, the scientific study of measurement, has never been faster or more precise. Yet many quality problems that land on a CMM table were decided weeks earlier, when someone measured against a drawing that was no longer the approved one.

Closing that gap isn’t a measurement problem. It’s a revision problem. The measurement was right. The drawing was wrong.

Every…

Contact surface-finish measurement and confocal optical surface-finish measurement are two different methods of measuring the roughness or irregularity of a surface.

Contact surface-finish measurement uses a diamond-tipped probe that moves across the part. There are two basic varieties: skid-type or averaging systems, and skidless or profiling systems. Skidded gauges have a…