Articles Tagged with ''podcast''

Quality interviewed the CEO of Spectrum Custom Packaging, our 2025 Plant of the Year, on how to train, maintain high quality, and find the right software.

Our 2025 Quality Professional of the Year has nineteen competences listed on his CV as well as 50 skills listed on LinkedIn. Here Ben Tomic shares his insights from a long career in quality.

Susan Gorveatte shares her secrets from 25 years of auditing, including an important what NOT to do. (Be prepared to laugh!)

Heather Wade previews her workshop “The 3 Rs of Calibration; Reading, Writing, and Reviewing Accreditation Scopes, Service Requests and Calibration Certificates.” With over 100 presentations worldwide, she provides practical insights on metrology.

If you’re looking to recruit more staff, a manufacturing boot camp may be the answer. Ranae Stewart is the Senior Executive Director of the Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership, part of the MEP National Network™️.

Aleigha Schulke, application engineer at ANCA, describes the appeal of working in manufacturing, how to recruit the next generation, and the surprising travel benefits of working in manufacturing, including business trips to Germany and Australia.

Nicholas Blake of Advex AI explains how synthetic examples can be used to help improve training models, what machine vision offers, and how AI inspection can cut training time down from years to hours.

Tim McMahon has over 25 years of leadership experience implementing lean manufacturing. Here, he explains why kaizen is a valuable tool that many companies may not take full advantage of. If you want to analyze your process and uncover pain points, kaizen allows you to do just that.

John Martin, AM Research Director, America Makes, and Christine Bernat, Associate Director, Standards Facilitation, American National Standards Institute, describe how the latest standardization roadmap is affecting the industry, trends with additive standards, and how the wrong type of inspection can prevent you from reaping the benefits of additives.

Chris Cantrell, senior managing director of standards and engineering services at ASME, explains how standards can help companies advance, innovate, and access a broader market base.