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Management

The Last Mile of Compliance Is Broken and AI Is the Bridge

AI technologies are particularly well-suited to solving last-mile compliance challenges.
Eric Farr
October 19, 2025

Why is external evidence provision so painful? And how can companies leverage AI to bridge the divide?


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Quality Edge Column | John Vandenbemden

Configuration Management: Consistency in Product Performance and Design Throughout Its Lifecycle

Configuration management refers to maintaining consistency in a product’s functionality, performance, and physical characteristics by managing its design, operational data, and requirements throughout its lifecycle.
QM 0322 Professional of the Year John Vandenbemden
John Vandenbemden
October 10, 2025

The upcoming revision of ISO 10017: 2017 focuses on "Quality management — Guidelines for configuration management," aimed at maintaining consistency in a product’s functionality and characteristics throughout its lifecycle. The configuration management process includes five steps.


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Harnessing the Power of LLMs: Prompt Engineering for Quality Engineers

Prompt Engineering may be the missing link between traditional quality tools and the AI-powered future.
Priyankkumar Patel
October 2, 2025

Prompt Engineering involves creating precise inputs for AI systems to ensure accurate and consistent outputs. For quality engineers, it bridges traditional quality tools and the AI-driven future. This practice is essential for both public AI models and enterprise-level in-house systems.


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Measurement

Why It’s Time to Move Quality Data from Files to Databases

The era of managing quality data through spreadsheets and shared folders is coming to a close.
Dan Caesar
September 26, 2025

Explore five key advantages of transitioning from traditional file-based storage to centralized database systems, and why this shift is rapidly becoming a best practice across the industry.


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Auditing

We Need Environmental Auditors Beyond the ISO 14001 Box-Checker

As sustainability challenges intensify, the role and required qualifications of auditors are shifting.
Robert Ferrone
September 18, 2025

Auditors play a central role in certifying compliance with this standard. However, as environmental priorities evolve and technological tools advance, the competencies required of the EMS auditors are also undergoing significant transformation.


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Column | Gary Cox

How Frontline Leaders Are the Missing Link in Sustaining Quality Improvements

If we’re serious about sustaining quality improvements, we need to be equally serious about how we develop and support our frontline leaders.
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Gary Cox
September 12, 2025

Frontline leaders bridge the gap between leadership's vision and daily execution, helping teams identify and resolve quality issues at the source. To be effective, they should be developed as coaches instead of just enforcers.


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From the Editor | Darryl Seland

Evaluation is a Key to Quality in Manufacturing

“How’m I doin’?”
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Darryl Seland
August 31, 2025

Evaluation and feedback are important to just about anything we approach with a process, and quality is no exception.


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Automotive

The IATF 16949 Rules 6th Edition’s Impact on Certification Compliance Auditing

The automotive industry reached a significant milestone in 2024–2025 by surpassing 100,000 IATF 16949-certified manufacturing sites across the globe.
Robert Brown
August 19, 2025

The latest Rules 6th Edition changes represent the most significant enhancement to the IATF certification scheme in nearly a decade. As the industry prepares for the next revision of the IATF 16949 standard, the upgrades appear to be laying a foundation for future requirements in digitalization and sustainability.


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Speaking of Quality | Mike Villa

Upholding Excellence: ASQ Certification Development Process

Maintaining the 19 ASQ certification exams involves hundreds of SME volunteers annually as well as a dedicated staff within ASQ to keep the exams current, accurate and fair.
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Mike Villa
August 18, 2025
ASQ follows ISO/IEC 17024 requirements to ensure impartial, competency-based certifications. The ASQ Certification Council manages the certification process and addresses related issues. Exam development involves a systematic process with volunteer Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), psychometricians, and ASQ staff.
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