Care delivery is like an orchestra playing a symphony. One wrong note from a single musician can mar harmony, creating dissonance in its stead. In healthcare, delivering exceptional patient care ...

Are we still a zero-defect organization? Millions of dollars in productively or actual revenue could be on the line. I doubt the CIO would’ve called the engineer in question and said “That’s ok, I ...

Here is a probable scene and a not-so-simple question about our future with autonomous vehicles: An automated delivery truck driving its route makes a turn where it ...

A health system transformational leadership framework and management system made visible and eliminated defects in value and was associated with reduced annual Medicare expenditures and increased ...

Wood product manufacturers must develop a company-wide attitude that errors are not acceptable if they are going to cost-efficiently produce products of a quality that will compete in today's global ...

Eliminating electronic device failures, as automakers are demanding under the rubric of Zero Defects, requires a holistic effort that spans product lifecycles from design concept through delivery and ...

Two cameras simultaneously scan each row of molded coil forms on a fast-moving belt.The entire contour of each coil form is inspected in detail within 100 msec. Absolute zero on the Kelvin scale is †...

There are several expressions I have really come to hate over the years. Two of them – the concept of “zero defects” and the idea that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – are, fortunately, falling out ...

As semiconductor applications in automotive, data center, and high-performance computing grow increasingly mission-critical, the industry faces mounting pressure to achieve near-perfect manufacturing ...

“We’ve always known it was coming,” says William H. Mattingly, referring to zero defects, the sine qua non of automotive quality. Mattingly, Chrysler Group vice president-Electrical/ Electronics ...