Articles by Michelle Bangert

The 16th Annual Spending Survey provides a glimpse into plants across the United States as quality professionals go about their 2016 spending.

Clean energy gets attention from around the world. In June, the United States, Brazil and China made new commitments to fight climate change.

If you’re interested in self-driving cars, drones or robotics, then you will understand why machine vision continues to grow.

Almost nothing gets done without software. Companies use it to track inventory, processes, and of course, communicate.

Our 15th Annual State of the Profession Survey offers a glimpse inside the minds of quality manufacturing professionals, from the equipment used and hours worked to salary and job satisfaction.

Jim Smith will make you believe in training. During his long career at Caterpillar, he signed up for every course he could, worked his way from the shop floor to senior management, and eventually developed training courses for others at the company.

On company visits, Carmine Liuzzi says people will occasionally clean off the quality manual before they give it to him.

William Israel hired T.M. Kubiak more than thirty years ago and says it was one of the best hires he’s ever made.

Karen Spencer had never before considered applying for the Plant of the Year award. But, one Saturday afternoon last year, she came across an application in the magazine, and felt compelled to apply.