The Supreme Court ruled in February that the Federal Government had illegally collected tariffs from importers in the United States using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
It’s called the principle of two weaknesses. It is a strategy in chess. It was developed by Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch and detailed in the book, “My System,” back in 1925 and still considered a core strategy in chess to this day.
Quality giants like Joseph M. Juran, W. Edwards Deming and Armand V. Feigenbaum ushered in the era of total quality management (TQM) movement about seven decades ago.
You’ve built rigorous systems for tracing defects to their source. But one upstream cause rarely makes the diagram and it’s been generating quality escapes across the industry for years.
This rapid adoption underscores a global industry shift toward data-driven, systematic quality oversight from pre-contract phases through project turnover.
Both ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 place strong emphasis on foundational quality system elements such as traceability, document control, risk management, and oversight of externally provided products.
Some of the most disruptive quality failures in medical manufacturing are not found on the production floor. They are built into the handoff between the supplier and manufacturer early in the process.