Former Boeing engineer Jim Doxey explains a previous motto at the company, why people (and teamwork) are the most important part of a quality system, and offers advice for manufacturers looking to avoid quality woes. He also shares his thoughts on a 30+ career working in manufacturing and Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook, Google and Dropbox.

Harshala Patil explains how she got involved in quality, the importance of quality across industries, and what drew her into the manufacturing world.

Patil is a Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer for the world’s second-largest semiconductor technology company, consistently ranked as a Top 10 global brand. As a Quality project leader, she brings expert experience in electrical and microelectronics engineering, with a career focus on process integration and quality reliability engineering management in the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry; designs, executes, and analyzes process flow experiments; and collaborates with fab engineering teams to mitigate risk and ensure quality standards.

Daniel Zrymiak profiles some recognizable threats to quality culture, based on actual experience. The quality function of an organization must constantly monitor the operations and discussions for the evident presence of these and other threats to success, and be prepared to take appropriate and commensurate actions.

Watch the video of this podcast here.

Instead of telling people what to do, learn how to guide them to the best decisions. People Centric Leadership can change the way your organization operates. Lisa Weis, President, EngageExcellence, LLC; PCL Lead, AME Management Team, has taught a course on this subject many times and says it can change the way you lead, work, and parent. Instead of telling someone they can’t do something, you can get your staff (or children) to think differently about their decisions and consequences.

Tim McMahon has more than 25 years of leadership experience implementing lean manufacturing. Here he explains why kaizen is a valuable tool that probably not enough companies take advantage of. If you want to be able to look at your process, if you want to uncover what pains you, these are the kinds of things that Kaizen allows you to do.

And he recently wrote an article for Quality on Kaizen.

John Martin and Christine Bernat explain. John is the AM Research Director, America Makes, and Christine is the Associate Director, Standards Facilitation, American National Standards Institute. They describe how the latest standardization roadmap is affecting industry, trends with additive standards, and how doing the wrong type of inspection can cause you to miss out on the benefits of additive.