Remote audits may have sounded unconventional at this time last year. But 2020 is shaping up to be a memorable year for all kinds of reasons. 

If anyone has been in quality for some time, they have probably encountered managers who have painful connections to quality. It is likely that some managers would describe their experience as overwhelmingly negative. Some of these people extend these feeling into anything having to do with quality.

Mastering quality requires a multi-pronged approach to your manufacturing line. Perhaps this means setting better notifications for problems, using spaghetti diagrams or just monitoring workflow more closely. 

A professional certification is a formal recognition that an individual has demonstrated a proficiency within, and comprehension of, a specified body of knowledge (BoK).

Industry 4.0 represents the fourth and newest phase of the Industrial Revolution, one that is centered around interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. 

The recent Covid-19 pandemic reminded me of an opportunity working with a federal government agency where I was asked to train high level scientific professionals on the concepts of Cost of Quality.