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 Quality community meets for networking and educational event.

Qualified NDT professionals are in high demand in the progressive petrochemical industry, although NDT is a career field that has little to no exposure within the general population.

My journey in dimensional inspection and quality started what seems like a lifetime ago when I ran the one-CMM quality department in my father’s aerospace engineering firm. Thirty years later, my passion for American ingenuity has never been stronger.

In early stages of industrialization, products were simpler, factories were smaller, most processes were manual, and process flows were shorter. Contact with customers was direct between production and customer.

Noted American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain.

One of my quality engineering students asked if there was such a thing as internal quality consultants.

While there is no possible way to fit the entire history of quality in one column (or 20), the following is an attempt to bring some of the ideas and people of yesteryear to our minds today.

Problem solving is finding the root cause of a problem and preventing it from ever happening again.

Implementing any standard can become very stressful at a company. Sometimes it seems everyone has his or her own idea of how it should be done.

I’ve discussed logical fallacies in my column in the past. One such fallacy I have not touched upon is the slippery slope.