As a research company, LNS Research is in the perfect position to see what is really going on behind the scenes in the manufacturing industry. On one side of the coin, we’re interviewing and surveying quality and manufacturing executives to understand their foremost challenges; on the other side, we’re researching which current and emerging technologies and strategies are helping them overcome those challenges.

When it comes to quality management, today’s executives are focused on three major business challenges: reducing costs, meeting compliance, and mitigating risk. The multitude of factors (technology, trends, etc.) contributing to those challenges only continues to breach higher levels of complexity. These factors have also generated considerable changes to the way people, processes, and technologies are leveraged across the enterprise.

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