Tom Taormina is a seasoned professional who spent more than 30 years working in quality control and management for various organizations. In a recent podcast, he shared his experiences working with NASA during the Apollo program and how it helped shape his career. Taormina started his career as a draftsman for a small company that […]
Countless measurements are made daily to ensure “quality” work, and behind all these measurements is the theory and practice of metrology. Have you ever wondered how you know your measurements are good? From the pipes and machinery running on every industrial site and building to medicine and electronics, what you measure matters. Even more so
What’s it like building an ISO 9001 Management System? with Robert Khami – Arsham Aluminum Alloys. This week we’re honored to have Robert Khami join us to talk about the process of building an ISO 9001 compliant QMS on a short time table. Robert and the rest of the team at Arsham Aluminum Alloys did
Quality Coordinator / Management Representative, Quality Manager, what’s the difference? Well, we’re going to tell you in this episode. ISO 9001 really doesn’t give much direction other than leadership and top management, but generally accepted is the role of the “Quality Manager”. This means and is important that your Quality Manager has management level authority.
One more new thing, UGH! This is a struggle in the workplace, we’ve all heard it there’s “An App for That”. It seems that there is always a new flashy program that’s going to make things easier, better, faster, greatly improve how we do things.
This week’s episode is the second in a series with API the American Petroleum Institute. We had the pleasure of speaking with Kevin Ferrick about the monogram program with API and its roots going back to the 1920’s at the very start of the Oil & Gas industry. If you or your organization is interested
We preach each week about how Quality Matters and what benefits we have when it goes well. But this time, we are starting a mini series on what can go wrong, and horribly horrible wrong when Quality Management Systems fail. The first in this week’s mini series, we explore what went wrong with the Three
Racine Unified School District found themselves in a similar situation as other school systems and business, they were facing huge budget cuts and rising costs in education. The district wanted to provide high quality education to their population, just under half of which were economically disadvantaged. In a case study found at the ASQ website
Let’s face it folks, no one enjoys being audited, especially your first time to be audited can be nerve-racking. There are several types of audits, but the hardest and often most vital to your business or industry is your 3rd Party Certification Audit. But with a few tips and a little preparation, there is little
Another great episode with Chris Paris, author of Surviving ISO 9001:2015. We’re talking today about just what makes the new ISO 9001 standard so darn confusing. Its quite an eye opening experience to say the least, and . Seems no matter where you go, be it the corporate ladder, local government, even your school board,
