Our workforce is undergoing major changes, especially in talent management and retention. Understanding and addressing these shifts will be our next mission.
By establishing precise parameters for success from the outset and implementing proven strategies, manufacturers can proactively mitigate risks, streamline operations, and foster a culture of excellence.
Ensuring high quality in medical device manufacturing requires operational excellence, which optimizes efficiency and enhances product quality and compliance. Let’s explore some of the key elements and best practices.
We’ll explore what is causing the skills gap, what training programs we should be implementing, how to start, and how we protect the non-digital skills in a growing digital world.
In this article, we'll explore the causes of the skills gap, suitable training programs, finding assistance, getting started, ensuring long-lasting training, and preserving non-digital skills in a digital world.
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries power many of our daily devices. However, manufacturing them requires scarce base metals and has supply and sustainability challenges. Battery recycling is vital for the supply chain. This article discusses using analytical technologies to maximize Li-ion materials and optimize production.
Liquid penetrant testing is known for being relatively easy to perform, but it does requires skilled technicians to perform and interpret results accurately and consistently.
Liquid penetrant testing (LPT) is a versatile, portable, simple, and sensitive method for detecting surface defects. It can be used on a wide range of materials and is excellent at finding surface discontinuities such as defects, porosity, lack of fusion, or surface-breaking cracks.
Laser-based NDT methods continue to be refined and improved, with recent significant advancements in the measurement of difficult-to-inspect shiny surfaces, underwater and radiation environments.
Machines can accomplish so much of what humans used to do. Now is the time to leverage technology while capitalizing on the unique qualities humans bring.
Quality 4.0 aligns quality management with Industry 4.0 to drive efficiencies, performance, and innovation. It's critical now more than ever to merge human skills with technology.
Determining liability and accountability for AI system actions is challenging. Organizations need a comprehensive approach addressing technical, ethical, legal, and organizational aspects of AI.
How well do the people responsible for meeting the quality standards understand the standards? Quality managers have access to effective tools to ensure that both the quality team and the entire organization are well-grounded in the most important standards.
Military standards came from a need for a sampling system that did not require 100% inspection for use in testing munitions and other destructive tests.
The ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 standard is similar in format to MIL-STD-105E and ASTM E2234-09 but differs in its definition of a rejectable item. It uses definitions and terminology in line with ANSI/ISO/ASQ 3534-2:2006. Two definitions are particularly important in applying the standard.