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Will 2025 Be the Year You Invest in AI?

Results are in for the 24th Annual Quality Spending Survey.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
December 23, 2024

The 2025 landscape may shift significantly as more than half of companies plan to boost AI and automation spending. Insights from the Annual Quality Spending Survey emphasize a focus on quality and rising cybersecurity concerns. Discover the trends shaping the future of manufacturing.


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The Spending Forecast is Here

The 22nd Annual Quality Spending Survey Results

Concerns about Covid-19 are down, but inflation worries are up.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
December 29, 2022

In the fall of 2021, COVID-19 was a top concern for more than half of respondents in our September 2021 survey. Today that number is down to 17%, according to our Annual Quality Spending Survey, which surveyed subscribers in September 2022.


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Column | Darryl Seland

From the Editor: Environmental Influences

Accelerating evoution, delivery apps, and handicapping.
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Darryl Seland
January 15, 2022

You have most likely heard it expressed as the battle between the irresistible force versus the immoveable object. More accurately, it is Newton’s Law, which, in part, states that a body at rest will stay at rest and a body in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by another force.


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Those Who Know Do Not Speak

Those who speak do not know.
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Darryl Seland
January 15, 2019

While Taoist philosopher Lao Tsu was the first to make the statement, “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know” part of his formal teachings, some form of the wisdom behind this statement has been attributed to such great philosophical minds as Socrates, Buddha, and Jesus.


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Quality Spending Survey 2017

Making Quality a Priority

The results are in from Quality’s 17th Annual Spending Survey.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
January 3, 2017

Quality professionals are gearing up for another year of spending—on everything from CMMs to software to services—and most of you will be starting now. The first quarter of 2017 is spending season for quality professionals, and January in particular is the big spending month.


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The Importance of Quality

One of the top reasons to invest in new equipment is reducing scrap and rework, according to Quality’s 15th Annual Spending Survey.
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
January 1, 2015

Although the holiday rush is over, this month is still the height of shopping season for quality professionals.


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Trends in Equipment Budgeting

While equipment budgets are as important as ever, the new budget seeks to determine ROI first with rented equipment
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Genevieve Diesing
December 6, 2013
Joe Lendway knows a thing or two about the importance of maintaining quality in a full-scale operation—and therefore the importance of budgeting for it. Lendway is the quality manager at Top Tool, a manufacturer of precision metal stamping components whose high standards earned it 2013’s Quality Plant of the Year award.
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The Value of Quality

Investing in quality makes a difference, according to Quality’s 14th Annual Spending Survey
Michelle Bangert
Michelle Bangert
December 6, 2013

If you’ve ever wondered how your company’s spending patterns compare to others, we here at Quality Magazine aim to help.


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