If ISO 9001:2015 is effectively applied, auditors will no longer use a clause-by-clause approach to auditing QMSs. Dr. Croft of TC 176 addresses this issue directly while answering a question about the difference in audit approach expected of ISO 9001:2015. Continue reading
A natural question to ask when something fails is “Why did it fail”?
The answer is not always obvious or easy to sort out. Some failures result from design errors, others are related to supply chain and assembly issues, and yet others occur because of seemingly random events (accidents, lightning strikes, etc.). As a reliability engineer, my concern is not simply accounting for end-of-life wear out; it is about meeting my customer’s reliability expectations. From design to failure analysis, by considering the range of possible sources I can identify and attend to the root causes that matter. Continue reading
Or, at the beginning there were the feet.
We humans are very proud – may be too proud – of our head, but what would we be without our feet, and not controlling them?
Could we drive a car, or pilot an aircraft or simply moving from here to there; or taking a shower? The answer to these apparently trivial questions is NO. Continue reading
Leadership with vision is great. It’s absolutely necessary. But it won’t get you where you 
intend to go if you have no strategy to fulfill it. Like anything else, it takes planning and action. Oh, and it takes strategy. Far too many corporate executives equate vision with strategy and use the terms interchangeably. That’s a big mistake. You might even equate it with having “Corporate Cataracts”. Continue reading