Table of contents
November 2025 | Volume 64 | Number 11
Special Sections
MEASUREMENT
Precision Gaging with LVDT Probes: A Guide to Understanding Key Performance Parameters
Linear Variable Differential Transformers (LVDTs) have emerged as a preferred choice for dimensional metrology applications in industries such as aerospace, automotive, semiconductor manufacturing, and general dimensional metrology.
TEST & INSPECTION
When All You Have Is a Hammer: Key Considerations When Evaluating Appropriate Tools for Quality Inspections
A good inspection should balance conformance and efficiency.
SOFTWARE
Integrating SPC with QMS Encourages Shop Floor Modernization
Being able to stay ahead of the curve offers a competitive advantage that’s tough to beat.
MANAGEMENT
Now is Your Chance to Upgrade for Growth
To build anything durable, you need a sound technology foundation.
Features
You should take a hard look at what’s truly limiting you and how you’ll win the race for growth. Source: Getty
About The Cover
Shaft Measurement
Nondestructive Testing
Software Selection
3D Scanning
Risk Management
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From the editor
The Language We Use
Speaking of Quality
Quality Through Transformation
Face of quality
The Improvement Trap
CSIA Column
The Hidden Costs of Vision System Integration
A3 Column
Sharper Eyes on Manufacturing Quality
Quality Edge
Configuration Management
Standards 101
Updates are Coming to ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001
View from the top
Kaizen: A Cornerstone of Sustainable Operational Excellence
Aerospace Column
The Gap Between OEMs’ 3D MBD and Supply Chains
Guest Column
Quality at an Inflection Point
Columns
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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.
Podcast
What’s on the Mind of Quality Professionals?
Dilip Shah has over 45 years of industry experience in metrology, electronics, instrumentation, measurement, and computer applications of statistics and quality. He's a fellow of ASQ as well as the president of E=MC3 Solutions. He's an A2LA Workplace Training Instructor, as well as a past chair of the ASQ Measurement Quality Division and a past chair of the A2LA Board of Directors. Michelle Bangert, managing editor at Quality, spoke with him about what's on the mind of quality professionals.
Podcast
The ISO 9001 Update
Michael Mills, who writes for isoTracker QMS software, has been involved in quality systems in large and small companies for close to 30 years. He's a member of ASQ and ISO TC 76 and has audited to ISO 9001 since 1996. He's also written several articles for Quality. His latest is “The Seven Quality Management Principles.”
Podcast
Digitizing NDT
Nasrin Azari is the president and CEO of Floodlight Software. She sat down with Michelle Bangert, managing editor at Quality, to discuss transitioning from manual operations to a well-structured digital format.
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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.
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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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