Table of contents
january 2025 | Volume 64 | Number 1
Special Sections
MEASUREMENT
Navigating the LED Lighting Shift: A Critical Step in Color Quality Control
As the world moves toward LED adoption, brands, manufacturers, and suppliers need to carefully evaluate how this shift will impact their products, particularly regarding color.
TEST & INSPECTION
Smarter Testing Machines Require New Training Approaches
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are carving out new possibilities for data analysis and user interaction.
SOFTWARE
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
FMEA injects rigor into the design of products and processes that prevents defects, mistakes, errors and variation.
MANAGEMENT
Will 2025 Be the Year You Invest in AI?
Results are in for the 24th Annual Quality Spending Survey.
AUDITING
What Does It Take to Have Successful Opening and Closing Meetings?
Keep in mind that standards such as ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 do not require a record for every activity, however, if an activity requires a record, it is stated as such in the standard.
Features
Safety coaching in Instron’s Bluehill Universal software prompts operators to follow safe testing procedures. Source: Instron
About The Cover
Standards
Tensile Testing
SPC Software
Quality 4.0
Leadership Survey
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Industry News
The Latest Breaking News
Products
The Latest Products
Buyers Guide / Sourcebook Premium Sponsors
Directory Listings
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Staff Contact Information
Departments
From the editor | Darryl Seland
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Speaking of Quality | Jim Spichiger
ASQ is Needed Most During Tough Times
Face of quality | Jim L. Smith
Success
IAQG Column | Jennifer Gray
APQP: A Project Management Tool for Proactive Quality Assurance
Column | John Vandenbemden
EPA’s Oil Spill Prevention, Control, Countermeasure Program
The Metrology Corner | Emil Hazarian
Metrology Corner in Shanghai
Standards Update | Genevieve Diesing
Sustainability and Technology are Shaping the Next ISO 9001 Update
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
Did You Know How Many Types of Digital Twins There Are?
Rodrigo Perez of MxD is here to explain this – along with the interesting elements of a career in manufacturing. Perez is a manufacturing systems integration engineer at MxD, the digital manufacturing institute and National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing. Here he shares advice on recruiting the next generation to manufacturing, what someone new to the industry should know, and how digital twins can help your organization.
Podcast
Manufacturing in the Great North
Alyssa Rodriguez, PhD, director of the Alaska Manufacturing Extension Partnership Center, talks manufacturing, labor, and more in Alaska.
Podcast
Why It’s Important for Every Employee to Have a Base Level Knowledge of GD&T
Dustin Smith, metrology & software training lead at Assurance Technologies Inc., shares common questions he receives in his GD&T course, why he still takes training courses regularly, and why he believes everyone - from sales to engineering and from production to quality – should have a base level knowledge of GD&T. 00:00
Podcast
Trends in Liquid Penetrant Testing
Paul Lang, chief global strategy officer for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) and executive director for ASNT Certification Services LLC (ASNT CS), shares his thoughts on trends and liquid penetrant testing.
Podcast
Using AI in Quality Software Testing
In some industries, artificial intelligence seems cause for optimism – not alarm – according to a recent report done by Idera that looks at the impact of AI on Quality. Judy Bossi, VP of Product Management at Idera, explains how AI is reshaping the future of QA, common barriers to AI adoption, and what’s needed to move forward with new technology.
Extra Online Content
Podcast
Why Standardization is Important
Michelle Bangert, Managing Editor of Quality, welcomes Chris Cantrell of ASME. He's a Senior Managing Director of Standards and Engineering Services for the Association and author of a column on standardization.
Podcast
Measurement Uncertainty
Michelle Bangert, Managing Editor of Quality, talks with Matt Noonan. He's the Quality Manager of Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, Inc.
Podcast
Creating a Space for NextGens
How did you get started in quality? And how do we bring more people to the field? Claire Hopkins was only familiar with quality assurance as a career path because her father worked in the industry for most of his career, but says her first full time job in quality seven years ago was more by chance than anything else.
Podcast
Additive Manufacturing Inspection
Michelle Bangert, Managing Editor of Quality, talks with Greg Weaver of Weaver NDT about additive manufacturing inspection.
Extra Online Content
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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