Content by Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Quality Professionals Need Better Tools to Handle Their Expanded DutiesCloud-based eQMS solutions provide quality professionals with the data they need when they need it
Tue, 04/13/2021 - 12:03
Quality professionals no longer focus solely on product or service quality. Today, the quality function is involved in almost every aspect of a company, from customer interactions and compliance management to environmental health and safety, supply…
Coordinate Metrology Society Reaches Beyond Portables-Only FocusA brief survey of leading coordinate metrology solutions
Thu, 10/22/2020 - 12:02
Founded in 1984, the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has championed portable coordinate measuring machine (CMM) technology ever since its inception. In some ways, the focus on portable CMMs overshadowed the traditional fixed CMM in much the same…
How to Master Quality: A Digital Transformation ApproachStart by removing unnecessary (and often nonexistent) roadblocks
Mon, 10/05/2020 - 12:01
In previous articles of this series, we discussed how to master quality at the tactical and strategic levels. If you are like most readers, you probably nodded your head through article two’s tactical shop-floor view and vigorously shook your head…
Using Quality Tactics to Create Strategy: A Hypothetical Case From shop floor to C-suite, data are most valuable when they address the job-related issues of users
Wed, 09/30/2020 - 12:02
In order to best illustrate how enterprisewide SPC software can help address shop-floor problems and then funnel the captured data to the corporate level where strategic issues can be analyzed, here is a case study of a hypothetical manufacturing…
Why Quality Tactics Create Great Corporate StrategiesIn modern manufacturing, the two aren't mutually exclusive
Mon, 09/28/2020 - 12:03
It’s been 40 years since “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?”, W. Edwards Deming, and total quality management. More than 33 years have passed since the release of the first iteration of ISO 9001 (remember checklists?). For four decades the importance of…
It’s Time to Start Really Using Our DataWhat use are data if they’re jumbled, incomplete, inaccessible, and not analyzed in real time?
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 12:04
Blame it on Moore’s law. We live in a digital Pangaea, a world of borderless data driven by technology, and the speed and density with which data can be transmitted and handled. It’s a world in which data-driven decisions cause daily fluctuations in…
Fake PPE on the Rise: Don’t Get FooledGovernment agencies and consumers fall prey to knockoffs and unapproved vendors
Thu, 05/28/2020 - 12:04
Around the world, local agencies and institutions have scrambled to find personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect their essential employees from Covid-19. Not just healthcare workers, but also the men and women who to work to keep our cities…
Lean in the Public SectorMaking better use of taxpayer dollars
Wed, 02/05/2020 - 12:03
Government bureaucracies are inefficient. They waste taxpayer dollars, and they have no incentive to improve. We’ve all heard and probably repeated these axioms about wasteful government spending. And it’s often true; you don’t have to look far to…
Quality Is Everything The world affects your job, and you affect the world. Take pride in your work.
Tue, 12/24/2019 - 12:03
What a year. No matter your job, your industry, or your political beliefs, this year has been a heck of a ride. The (still ongoing) trade war with China, manufacturing gains (and losses), the 737 MAX, Hong Kong riots, North Korea, Brexit,…
Big Data: Your Health vs. Your PrivacyHuge amounts of biometric, DNA, and diagnostic data enable personalized medicine. They also enable unscrupulous and discriminatory marketing.
Mon, 03/18/2019 - 12:02
For centuries, medical procedures, prescriptions, and other medical interventions have been based largely on experience—what is known about a set of symptoms. The doctor looks at those symptoms, tests you in various ways (blood tests, X-rays, MRIs…