Table of contents
December 2025 | Volume 64 | Number 12
Special Sections
MEASUREMENT
Gloss, Haze, and the Hidden Variables:
A Guide to Understanding Surface Appearance
Key factors such as gloss, haze, distinctness of image, and orange peel work together to determine the overall total appearance, along with hidden variables that also control your outcome.
MEASUREMENT
CMM Technology on the “Shop Floor”? Why Not!
CMMs have been in the industry since the ‘70s and historically had an untrusted stigma. Because of their time in the industry and their continued evolution, that’s changed.
TEST & INSPECTION
Smart Inspections, Safe Processes
How AI, hydrogen testing, and digital tools are changing the world of inspection.
SOFTWARE
Automated APQP
No matter the size of your company, APQP systems provide a tool to drive internal and external communication in real-time.
MANAGEMENT
Mastering Kaizen: Small Steps to Organizational Success
Kaizen is fundamentally about having the discipline to change yourself for the better, making sacrifices for the good of the whole team.
MANAGEMENT
Brainstorming: The Ultimate Risk Management Tool
Think of risk as two sides of a coin. On one side we have our negative risk, while the other side would be defined as an opportunity.
MANAGEMENT
Secure by Design, Driven by Strategy
How Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints elevate cybersecurity to a business enabler.
Medical
From Paper to Performance: The Strategic Transition to Electronic Device History Records (eDHRs)
Scaling a digital quality transformation across a global organization.
Features
The stakes for quality in medical device manufacturing have never been higher. Source: Cirtec Medical
About The Cover
CMMs
Automation
Quality Inspection Software
Capital Spending
Certification
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Departments
From the editor
The 50-Guys-in-a-Bar Standard
Speaking of Quality
Growing Through Service: My Journey as an ASQ Member Leader
Face of Quality
The Dynamic Duo
CSIA Column
Embracing Innovation: Adapting to Evolving Control Systems Trends
Fellow Traveler
Measure, Analyze and Control Using Technology
NCSLi Column
Putting the Customer Front and Center: The Rise of Customer-Centric Quality
Columns
Quality Advertising Index
This index is provided as a reader service.
The publisher assumes no liability for errors or omissions.
Extra Online Content
Podcast
What’s Driving Manufacturing at Nissan Canton
Victor Taylor is the vice president of manufacturing at the award-winning Nissan Canton vehicle assembly plant with more than 20 years of engineering and manufacturing expertise. He's also written for Quality about his EV journey.
Podcast
The Evolving Role of Quality in the AI-Enabled Medical Device Industry
Sai Ranjith is a quality engineer with over eight years of experience in the medical device industry. He specializes in regulatory compliance, risk management, and product lifestyle quality. In addition to his technical work, Sai has a Six Sigma green belt and is a certified ISO 13485:2016 Medical Device Auditor. He actively contributes to the quality community through ASQ, serving as the program chair for the Granite State Chapter and an active member of the ASQ Quality Management Division.
Podcast
The Power of Kaizen Principles
Ben Linke is the vice president of Industrial Products and CEO of Waygate Technologies at Baker Hughes. He recently wrote an article for Quality about Kaizen.
Podcast
APQP and Continuous Improvement That Just Click
Jennifer Gray is the senior manager of global supplier quality at Spirit AeroSystems and is very involved with the International Aerospace Quality Group, or IAQG.
Podcast
The Right Capability Study
Travis Ellinger is the president and founder of Strategic Manufacturing Solutions. He's worked with hundreds of manufacturing facilities over his career, and he's a highly sought after manufacturing consultant with extensive experience implementing strategic solutions that provide significant return on investment for his clients. He has more than 20 years of management and consulting experience and has also worked at Ford, Lear and Wilhelm Karmann GmbH.Travis sat down with Michelle Bangert, managing editor at Quality, to discuss a recent article he wrote for Quality on process capability studies.
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Podcast
RAM-ing It Home
Quality sat down with Greg Weaver, founder and president at Weaver NDT, to talk about the Resonance Acoustic Method (RAM).
Podcast
The Latest in Magnetic Particle Inspection
It’s fun to talk about but laborious to do, says George Hopman of NDE Solutions Inc. He offers his advice on magnetic particle inspection and explains the latest in the technology.
PODCAST
Don’t Let Quality 4.0 Intimidate You
Dr. Milton Krivokucha shares how he got interested in the subject, and what manufacturers should know before implementing it.
PODCASt
The Guide to Styli Basics
Linda Goodwin-Marino of Paul Marino Gages talks styli basics. She explains what’s new in terms of styli, offers advice for manufacturers on improving measurement, and trends in quality.
PODCAST
What Training Looks Like Now
Kimberlee Humphrey, president and CEO of Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), discusses training success stories, the rise of “new collar” workers, and why manufacturers shouldn’t get hung up on traditional job requirements.
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