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Before I get into the focus of this column, I’d venture to guess that many quality professionals reading this column’s title did an about take thinking this guy has lost his mind. To discover the real intent, read on…

Manufacturing has changed meaningfully over the past two decades. Once rare, women in technical, operational, and leadership roles are now increasingly visible across the industry. 

The final draft of ISO 2859-1 was approved in December 2025.

I have had numerous bosses over my 40+ year career. A few were great, most were good, and several were terrible. Coinciding with my career has been the opportunity to serve as a member leader (aka volunteer) for ASQ, something I have done continuously since 1992. 

As professors Hirotaka Takeuchi and John Quelch stated in their famous Harvard Business Review article, “Quality is more than making a good product,” emphasizing that in manufacturing, excellent customer service and support are just as crucial as the product itself.

Up until the early 2000s, metrology was mostly a pen-and-paper-based profession. Inspection reports, machine data, and charts were all hand-recorded, often scattered across departments. Data existed, but analyzing trends over time was slow, error-prone, and sometimes just impossible, making it fully disconnected from decision-making.

If you didn’t know any better, you might think Sainyam Arora has been in the quality field for decades. 

Modern manufacturing increasingly relies on full in-line inspections to maintain quality standards, reduce scrap, and improve traceability.

This is the third article in the five-article series on lighting design for machine vision.

Every manufactured product, from a smartphone component to a commercial aircraft, relies on precise dimensional accuracy. Even small deviations from the intended design can lead to assembly problems, performance issues, or product failure.