Articles Tagged with ''quality''

“Quality built the industrial world. Trust will build the intelligent one.”

Beginning with this issue, Quality welcomes the launch of the ASQ Fellows Forum—a monthly column written by members of the American Society for Quality’s Fellow community.

The traditional image of a quality department is rapidly becoming a relic of the past. Driven by the relentless march of digital transformation, escalating customer expectations, and a growing emphasis on holistic corporate responsibility, the quality department of the future will undergo a profound metamorphosis. 

Where SPC and heavy business focused analytics tools may be best fit in the enterprise software layer, Quality Management Systems (QMS) now have a lasting home in the MES/SCADA Layer.

Over the past decade, global data-center infrastructure has evolved faster than at any other time in history. AI clusters, cloud computing, and digital services have driven unprecedented increases in power needs and thermal loads. 

Palletizing is difficult, dangerous work that sometimes takes workers many feet up into the air to stack products off the production line or service and maintain palletizing equipment. 

IACMI–The Composites Institute® (IACMI), announced the launch of ‘Make It In America’, a national outreach campaign to raise awareness of careers in advanced manufacturing and help fill the 3.8 million jobs needed by 2030.

Thread and cylindrical gages are essential tools in precision manufacturing, playing a critical role in ensuring parts meet strict dimensional requirements. 

Michael Byrnes is the executive director of certification operations at ASQ and talks with Quality about certifications, and in particular, how certifications enhance people's careers, benefit the collective community, and really add value to society as a whole.

The phrase “digital twin” is everywhere these days, but it’s also widely misunderstood. Ask ten people what it means and you’ll likely hear ten different answers. Many assume it’s simply a CAD model or a 3D scan. Those are important tools, but they’re not the whole story.