While Americans were celebrating their Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, giving thanks for the blessings they had received during the previous year, the newly named Omicron variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus pushed the dangerous Delta variant out of the headlines as it spread across eight nations in Africa and from there to Israel and other nations around the world. Continue reading
The world’s supply chains are being tested like never before, Supply chain conditions traditionally affect countries’ rankings within the annual index.
As one of the world’s largest safety & loss Prevention and supply chain resilience experts, today has identified six facets of the current supply chain crisis that exemplify threats to business resilience. Continue reading
I recently completed hosting duties on Exemplar Global’s Future of Auditing Expo. This online event was loaded with interesting perspectives from auditors, trainers, and authors (and in fact, many of the presenters fulfilled all three of those functions in and of themselves). The Expo covered forward-thinking topics like machine learning, data analysis, cybersecurity, using cloud-based technology, and even the psychological aspects of the auditing function. Interesting—and unique!— perspectives, indeed. Continue reading
Yesterday had the chance to review the long list of Design for X topics. Assembly, environment, maintainability, and of course reliability, plus about a dozen other areas of focus. How is a design team to navigate all these different sets of constraints and objectives along with crafting a solution that works?
With a little creativity, you could relate every Design for X topic to reliability. Easier to assembly, fewer assembly errors leading to field failures, for example. Continue reading
This article is the fifth of fourteen parts to our risk management series. The series will be taking a look at the risk management guidelines under the ISO 31000 Standard to help you better understand them and how they relate to your own risk management activities. In doing so, we’ll be walking through the core aspects of the Standard and giving you practical guidance on how to implement it. Continue reading