Dan Jacob

Research analyst

Dan Jacob is a research analyst at LNS Research primarily focused on the enterprise quality management systems (EQMS) practice. Jacob has more than 20 years of experience in quality, reliability, risk, and safety across several industries, primarily automotive, aerospace and defense, high tech and electronics, and medical devices. Jacob also operated his own firm providing engineering consulting to the medical devices and metals industries. Jacob graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Tue, 02/09/2016 - 17:11
Quality 4.0 in Life Sciences: Selecting Technology for Competitive AdvantageIt’s time to learn from innovators
Fri, 11/09/2018 - 12:03
What a difference a year and a half make. In mid-2017, LNS Research coined the term “Quality 4.0” and published definitive research on the topic. At that time, an early but large group of manufacturers started to make Quality 4.0 one of their top…
Safety Plus Quality: Why Join Forces Now?It’s a once-in-a-career opportunity to lead quality and safety transformation
Wed, 10/03/2018 - 12:00
LNS Research published its research, “Driving Operational Performance With Digital Innovation: Connecting Risk, Quality, and Safety for Superior Results” to address fundamental challenges quality and safety leaders face today.  If quality and…
Quality 4.0: What Defines Successful New Product Introduction?And how do companies drive it?
Mon, 04/09/2018 - 13:01
Developing profitable, timely, high-quality products is more important today than ever before. Visibility of in-use product performance has never been higher, while competitive pressures continue to squeeze margins and time to market. Manufacturers…
Quality’s Role in Successful New-Product IntroductionBenchmark your organization against ongoing research from LNS
Tue, 03/06/2018 - 12:03
Developing high-quality products is more important today than ever before. Market visibility to product quality has never been higher, and competitive pressures continue to squeeze margins and time to market. Manufacturers must consistently deliver…
Quality 4.0Fresh thinking for quality in the digital era
Mon, 07/24/2017 - 12:03
The most recent decade has seen rapid advances in connectivity, mobility, analytics, scalability, and data, spawning what has been called the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0. This fourth industrial revolution has digitalized…
The Beginning of Quality Management’s Digital TransformationExpect a growing swell of IIoT pilot investments intended to improve quality
Mon, 03/06/2017 - 12:02
This time last year, we identified what we felt were the three most important developing trends in quality management. We identified that these were the industrial internet of things (IIoT), pilots focused on quality improvements, increased…
Can Innovative Supplier Quality Management Be Disruptive?Tracking best practices for manufacturers
Wed, 12/07/2016 - 10:31
Disruption is a funny thing. You see it coming—kind of—but it’s hard to tell what it means. Back in the day, would you have foreseen the shift from taxis to Uber? Would you have predicted that HVAC units would be offered as a service rather than…
Driving the Quality InitiativeBecome an effective change agent
Tue, 11/22/2016 - 11:40
You’ve identified a fledgling quality initiative to fix the bottlenecks in your processes. Or perhaps you need that application with the latest technology that is sure to improve performance. You might have even discovered the approach to advance a…
Making the Business Case for QualityIncrease quality maturity by gaining executive sponsorship
Tue, 07/12/2016 - 14:58
A few years ago, I was working with a high-tech company that had built market leadership around world-class product quality, then lost it. Several years prior, the company had gone through a cost-cutting exercise. One outcome of the exercise was a…
Breaking Into the Boardroom Making the business case for executive sponsorship of quality
Wed, 06/08/2016 - 14:44
The way an organization handles quality generally differs from how it manages other business areas. Although no one questions the importance of tangible industrial functions like production or scheduling, too often quality is treated as an add-on.…