Quality Digest Media

11/12/2025

NIST has been the quiet force behind precision since 1901—shaping measurement science, powering GPS, securing data, and keeping industry accurate from nanotech to 3D standards.

10/12/2025

Management by Objectives

Management by objectives isn’t just a way to set direction for an organization. It’s a prerequisite for creating sustainable development and a culture of continuous improvement.

10/12/2025

Precision Assembly Transformation Starts with Engineered Fluid Processes

At the corner of quality and assembly, design engineers are frequently confronted with unexpected, complex fluid process issues in the prototyping phase.

09/12/2025

Minimizing Harm, Maximizing Humanity

In this article I’m looking at a question that’s rarely asked in management. What if the most responsible course of action isn’t to maximize benefit, but to minimize harm? In decision theory, this is expressed as the minimax principle.

09/12/2025

Gen AI Anxiety in the Workplace

The conversation about generative AI (gen AI) is unavoidable in today’s business land

08/12/2025

Is It Time to Digitize Your Quality Management Strategy?

Even the smallest manufacturer would never consider using a typewriter to develop an invoice, or manage a sales prospect list from a Rolodex.

05/12/2025

Ray Ryan, a meteorologist and former vice president of East Coast Metrology, explains how precision makes proton therapy possible. That same millimeter-level accuracy that powers our devices can also guide a proton beam around an artery, spare healthy tissue, and help save a child’s life.

Check out Quality Digest’s first Roadshow episode, “What the %@$ # Is Metrology?”, on the Quality Digest website!
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04/12/2025

3 Tips for Making Your Staff Meetings Not Suck

Staff meetings can be incredibly productive. Or unproductive—and more often the latter. If your staff meetings are terrible, it’s your fault because you’re not structuring them well.

04/12/2025

Find the Signals by Filtering Out the Noise

One of the principles for understanding data is that while some data contain signals, all data contain noise. Therefore, before you can detect the signals you’ll have to filter out the noise. This act of filtration is the essence of all data analysis techniques.

03/12/2025

What Is a Modern CMMS?

From manufacturing and mining to hospitality and healthcare, computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) have become all but essential.

03/12/2025

Improving Production Quality With Industrial AI in 2026

Quality has always been a defining metric in manufacturing when it comes to industry trust, brand longevity, and customer loyalty.

03/12/2025

Metrology saves lives. Ray Ryan helped install proton therapy systems that target tumors with remarkable precision. He saw his work impact on families in real time.