Manufacturers focus on reducing their operating costs, but cannot afford buying more productive machinery.

Confidence intervals show the range of values we can be fairly, well, confident, that our true value lies in, and they are very important to any quality practitioner. I could be 95% confident the volume of a can of soup will be 390-410 ml. I could be 99% confident under 2% of the products in my batch defective.

All health care-related fields are growing, and the same is true for applications that test medical instruments and materials.