Securing Water and Wastewater Operational Technology Environments

Quality Is the Common Thread in a Changing Industry

Manufacturing Day fell on Oct. 2 this year. Manufacturers opened their doors and showed the public what modern manufacturing looks like, and, hopefully, built some interest in manufacturing careers.

The Art of Forecasting: Part 2

When a time series displays a pattern that repeats itself periodically it is said to have seasonal effects. The word seasonal may apply to days, weeks, months, quarters, or any pattern that recurs...

Run It Past the Murder Board

Before something important leaves the ground, someone has to be willing to ask an uncomfortable question: What could make this fail?

Euthyphro’s Complexity

In this article I’ll be looking at the shape of this question regarding complexity that comes from Plato. In the Euthyphro dialogue, Socrates asks whether a thing is pious because the gods love it,...

Why Remote Work Isn’t Working

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, all the dithering about remote work stopped virtually overnight. Working from home wasn’t perfect, but people made it work.

Choosing the Right Metal Shaping Method

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology recently

Finding Bias, Moods, Personalities, and Concepts Hidden in Large Language Models

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models (LLMs) have accumulated so much human knowledge that they’re far from simple answer generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such...

The Additive Machine

Adding a control element to any system may seem like an easy path, even a necessary one. Redundancy reassures the stakeholders and the auditors, and it might become a sales pitch for the customers.

Your First 12 Months of ISO 9001:2026 Transition: An Auditor’s Perspective

On Sept. 16, 2026, ISO published the sixth edition of ISO 9001. Within days, the summaries arrived: what changed in Clause 5, what the new Annex A says, how the 2024 climate amendment carries forward.

The Perils of Defensive Organizing

The Real Return-to-Office Debate Is About AI

On a Tuesday morning, a support agent in Dublin closes a tricky ticket while an engineer in Bengaluru ships a fix, and a sales manager in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, joins a customer call spanning...

When Scientists Become Accidental Detectives

Painter Bob Ross taught us that “happy accidents” can make beautiful art. Happy accidents also happen in science when experiments take research in unexpected directions. One dramatic example is Sir...

The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own QMS

Most early-stage medical device companies never decide to skip a quality management system (QMS). They just never decide to buy one.