The industrial internet of things (IIoT) is moving from a future promise to real-world strategy as manufacturers seek to transform sensor data into actionable insights. In fact, research firm MarketsandMarkets predicts that the worldwide IIoT market will grow to $195.47 billion by 2022.

The Entrepreneurial Company Award recognizes the company that provides the best innovation and customer impact and has the genuine potential to disrupt the market by delivering advanced products that clearly help customers achieve desired outcomes with significant value for the price.

Coruson will provide AirAsia’s management with complete oversight of business performance and standardize operations across the group’s nine airlines, in line with common safety, quality and risk targets.

Customer complaint data is being handled in inefficient and outdated ways.

Scholarship winner Ver-non Wakefield cites passion for quality and bringing about organizational change.

Executives are facing challenges to identify the most important risks in their operations and lack adequate systems in their companies to address risk.

The National Association of Manufacturers is strengthening its voice in Washington and bolstering its partnerships around the country through staff promotions and new additions to its team.

It is said that “necessity is the mother of invention.” It is an idiom that has been adopted from the more specific insight of Greek philosopher Plato. In Republic, Plato writes, “A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem.”

During a recent ASQ Inspection Division meeting, I had the opportunity to sit down over lunch with some of the very best minds in the quality field.

In my two previous columns I discussed specification limits and process control limits, which led to thoughts about product disposition limits.