Content by Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Inside Quality Digest Live for April 7, 2017If you think U.S. roads and bridges are bad, you should see the grade our water infrastructure got.
Fri, 04/14/2017 - 13:17
In last week’s Quality Digest Live: Enterprise quality management vs. integrated quality management. Our deteriorating U.S. infrastructure. Stress testing composites. The Fowler Precision Mobile Tech Center. “Save Costs When Implementing Enterprise…
Lessons From the Ice Breaker Kapitan KhlebnikovScarcity is the mother of innovation
Thu, 04/13/2017 - 12:03
One of the biggest drivers for innovation is scarcity—of resources, time, even knowledge. Necessity and scarcity drive you to look at your approach differently than when you are surrounded by abundance. Forced to use different methods and tools,…
Inside Quality Digest Live for March 10, 2017From lean, to audits, to corporate management: It all boils down to remembering the basics
Mon, 03/13/2017 - 12:00
In this week's Quality Digest Live: Lean Ben Franklin... who knew? Could the root cause of some manmade catastrophes simply be a lack of basics like humility, integrity, communication, and positivity? Connected spenders is what you want. And what’s…
Do You ‘Buy American?’ Why?It’s not about jobs... believe me
Thu, 03/02/2017 - 12:03
‘Made in the U.S.A.” Do people really care about those words on the label, and more important, how motivated are they to buy American-made products? The answer is yes... and sort of. Yes, consumers in the United States say they want to “buy…
Inside Quality Digest Live for February 24, 2017From the birth of computerized spreadsheets to the birth of in-process testing
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 11:02
Businesses don’t have to chose between being “tree huggers” or “planet plunderers.” Black History Month: NIST employee was one of the developers of the computerized spreadsheet. Metrology: process signature analysis and large-field-of-view,…
Inside Quality Digest Live for February 10, 2017Scandal! Waste! Jobs! All that and more... but without the exclamation points
Mon, 02/13/2017 - 08:20
Do we have another automotive cheating scandal? Could helping our economy be as easy as just paying our vendors faster? Last week’s Quality Digest Live contained answers to those questions and a discussion between myself and my co-host, Quality…
Inside Quality Digest Live for Jan. 27, 2017Amazon Go, productivity hacking, questioning consensus, and Kennedy vs. Trump
Fri, 02/03/2017 - 15:36
In case you missed it, last week’s Quality Digest Live contained some great articles and discussion between myself and my co-host, Quality Digest publisher in chief Mike Richman. In the show, we covered: “Manufacturing Trends to Watch in 2017” In…
Where Politics Meets QualityWe can’t ignore the impact that policymaker misinformation has on industry
Thu, 01/19/2017 - 12:03
You’re going to see a bit of a departure in some Quality Digest coverage this year. Certainly on our webcast, Quality Digest Live, but even in our online editorial coverage. It is spurred in no small part by the incoming administration’s approach…
Inside Quality Digest Live: Jan. 13, 2017FDA’s MRI program, better coaching, Olympus Vanta XRF analyzer, and more
Mon, 01/16/2017 - 08:14
I’m pinch-hitting for my co-host Mike Richman in the wrap-up of this past Friday’s episode of Quality Digest Live. Mike was off on vacation last week, so I presented the show myself. On Friday’s show, we covered: The FDA Mutual Reliance Initiative…
Cheap Champagne, Running With Scissors, and TelecommutingNone of them are very good ideas
Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:16
  At roughly 7 a.m. every Monday through Friday, I fire up my Lenovo T520 laptop and wait for email, chat, Google Drive, Google Hangout, Skype, remote desktop, an FTP program, two different browsers, and depending where I’m at, my voice over IP…