Translating Your Brilliant Idea into the Language of Your Boss
Many professionals who felt stuck in their positions because their new ideas never gained traction [...]
Jul
Determining the Subgroup Size and Frequency on a Control Chart
Anyone who knows me knows I love hearing from the students who take my online [...]
Jul
What is the Difference Between a CAR and a PAR?
One of the more confusing distinctions for quality professionals, especially those working within one of [...]
Jul
The Concentration Diagram: From Cholera to Quality
Metropolises in 2020, like New York and Shanghai, disconcertingly resembled London in 1831, in that [...]
Jul
Sturge’s Rule: A Method for Selecting the Number of Bins in a Histogram
In the early 20th century, German statistician Herbert Sturges formulated a method (Sturges’ Rule) of [...]
Jul
Measuring Relative Variation: A Review of the Coefficient of Variation
Consider the follow two targets: Shooter #1 and Shooter #2 both fired 15 rounds into [...]
Jun
The Language of Business: Why Measuring Cost of Quality Matters
Armand Feigenbaum once gave prominence to many concepts still used today in modern quality management, [...]
Jun
My First Steps in Quality and Reliability; Lessons from the Russian Space Program
For this article, I had the wonderful honor of co-authoring a piece with my colleague [...]
Jun
Thomas Jefferson’s Role in Modern Manufacturing: Interchangeable Parts
The enduring gains from the Industrial Revolution were the philosophies of manufacturing that transcended the [...]
Jun
Standard Deviation versus Standard Error
Anyone who has worked around the fields of reliability or quality has certainly bumped into [...]
Jun
