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.
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).
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.
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.
