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The aerospace industry is grappling with a shortage of auditors for AS9100 Quality Management Systems certification, crucial for safety and compliance, as demand for aircraft and services increases in 2025. This shortage affects manufacturers and suppliers globally, emphasizing the need for improved recruitment and retention in auditing.

Quality is crucial in the automotive and aerospace industries, underpinning customer satisfaction, efficiency, and safety. Upholding high standards reduces defects and waste, while evolving mobility standards are essential for adapting to technology and competition.

Thickness gages have evolved over 40 years from analog to advanced digital systems. Ultrasonic gages use a transducer to convert electrical energy into vibrations, measuring the time taken for these vibrations to calculate material thickness.

Nondestructive Testing (NDT) professionals are essential for ensuring the safety of infrastructure, flight operations, and energy facilities. However, a significant workforce shortage threatens this crucial role, with an aging workforce and fewer new entrants. Addressing this talent gap is vital to maintaining the high standards of safety and reliability in our industry.

Meet our 2025 Quality Rookie of the Year, Attrayee Chakraborty. She is a quality professional in the medical field with a background in biotechnology and expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Engineers rely on industry standards for safety, which require extensive development time. However, the rapid pace of emerging technologies poses challenges for timely standardization, as reaching consensus on new standards becomes difficult in a fast-changing environment, according to Shawn Moylan from NIST.

Calibration lab quotes are often based on ideal conditions, but the true costs of calibration testing can remain hidden from metrics. When these costs appear, managers may blame the lab. By using risk control tools and investing in quality equipment, labs can reduce these hidden expenses.

Nondestructive testing (NDT) assesses structures like bridges and pipelines without damage, ensuring safety in construction, manufacturing, and energy for over a century. NDT has evolved from basic tools (NDE 1.0) to smart systems (NDE 4.0), adapting alongside industrial revolutions.

Over the last 20 years at conferences, I've noticed many improvement posters rely on line and bar charts, which aren't always effective. While some use control charts and histograms, they often miss illustrating the "before and after" of improvements. It's crucial to better showcase these changes with appropriate chart types.

How do sounds like birds chirping or your favorite song make you feel? They represent analog information. Analog design captures this data through electronic circuits, linking the analog world to digital technology. This article explores the analog circuit design cycle, opportunities, and the future of circuit design.