Let’s be honest. Conformity assessment has become dangerously comfortable. It’s familiar, structured, and predictable. It gives organizations a reassuring feeling of control because it produces clean documentation, tidy checklists, and audit reports that look professional. It also creates an illusion: If the paperwork is complete, the system must be effective.

But in real life,…

Integrating environmental, health, and safety (EHS) with quality management is no longer optional for manufacturers; it’s essential for achieving operational excellence, ensuring ISO compliance, and driving sustainable growth. Traditionally, EHS management and quality management systems (QMS) operated in silos. But modern organizations are shifting toward integrated EHSQ platforms to…

Most data in business and industry belong to the category known as observational data. These data are the voice of your processes because they are the result of ordinary operations rather than an experiment.

Because the purpose of analysis is insight, the question is how to analyze observational data to gain insight into your processes. Here, we’ll illustrate three approaches to…