Quality Podcast

Lou Ann Lathrop is an ASQ fellow, ASQ board of directors’ treasurer for 2025, and past chair of ASQ Automotive Division. She also recently wrote an article for Quality about Dr. Deming's teachings.

Eric Hayler is a Lean Six Sigma Master Blackbelt and principal of the Hayler Group. He's also an adjunct professor of business analytics at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He has led continuous improvement efforts at BMW manufacturing, as well as Amazon. He's a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a PhD in solid-state inorganic chemistry. He's also a lo...

Erik Nieves is the co-founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics. He's been in the industry for more than 30 years, and he also serves on the board of directors of A3 and is a frequent speaker and contributor to public policy and robotics. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Michael Byrnes is the executive director of certification operations at ASQ and spoke at The ASSEMBLY Show about unlocking your potential and how ASQ certifications accelerate career growth and talks with Quality about certifications, and in particular, how certifications enhance people's careers, benefit the collective community, and really add value to society as a whole. Sponsored by: MAESTRO:...

Syed Ahmed, a senior member of ASQ, shares his thoughts on the future of quality. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Kelly Allan of Kelly Allan Associates is a longtime member of the board of trustees of the nonprofit Edwards Deming Institute and talks to Quality about Deming and quality. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Michelle Bangert talks with Girish Gopalakrishnan, North America senior manager of continuous improvement at Case New Holland, about connected frontline workers at The Assembly Show in Chicago. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Jenna Schoettker is a senior accreditation specialist at A2LA and has been in the industry for a long time. She's been working with Quality on a few different projects. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Jerome Lopez is the director at a French metrology organization called the College Francais de Metrologie. Cosimi Corleto is the managing director of STIL Marposs.  Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Victor Taylor is the vice president of manufacturing at the award-winning Nissan Canton vehicle assembly plant with more than 20 years of engineering and manufacturing expertise. He's also written for Quality about his EV journey. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Sai Ranjith is a quality engineer with over eight years of experience in the medical device industry. He specializes in regulatory compliance, risk management, and product lifestyle quality. In addition to his technical work, Sai has a Six Sigma green belt and is a certified ISO 13485:2016 Medical Device Auditor. He actively contributes to the quality community through ASQ, serving as the program...

Ben Linke is the vice president of Industrial Products and CEO of Waygate Technologies at Baker Hughes. He recently wrote an article for Quality about Kaizen. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Jennifer Gray is the senior manager of global supplier quality at Spirit AeroSystems and is very involved with the International Aerospace Quality Group, or IAQG. She will also be speaking at the ASSEMBLY Show this month. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Travis Ellinger is the president and founder of Strategic Manufacturing Solutions. He's worked with hundreds of manufacturing facilities over his career, and he's a highly sought after manufacturing consultant with extensive experience implementing strategic solutions that provide significant return on investment for his clients. He has more than 20 years of management and consulting experience an...

Dilip Shah has over 45 years of industry experience in metrology, electronics, instrumentation, measurement, and computer applications of statistics and quality. He's a fellow of ASQ as well as the president of E=MC3 Solutions. He's an A2LA Workplace Training Instructor, as well as a past chair of the ASQ Measurement Quality Division and a past chair of the A2LA Board of Directors. Michelle Banger...

Michael Mills, who writes for isoTracker QMS software, has been involved in quality systems in large and small companies for close to 30 years. He's a member of ASQ and ISO TC 76 and has audited to ISO 9001 since 1996. He's also written several articles for Quality. His latest is “The Seven Quality Management Principles.” Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for...

Nasrin Azari is the president and CEO of Floodlight Software. She sat down with Michelle Bangert, managing editor at Quality, to discuss transitioning from manual operations to a well-structured digital format. Sponsored by: MAESTRO: The first all-digital, fully connected CMM built for the future.

Gary Cox is a continuous improvement consultant, speaker, and author based in Nova Scotia, Canada. He spoke with Quality on getting started in continuous improvement.

Welcome to this joint ASSEMBLY Audible and Quality Q-Cast podcast episode! Get a preview of the upcoming ASSEMBLY Show, co-located with SMTA, through this collaborative podcast with Greg Vance of Rockwell Automation and SMTA’s president of the board of directors. Here we discuss how electronic manufacturing has changed over his long career, business travel around the world, and upcoming industry e...

Andy Nichols is a managing partner of Quality Nation Incorporated with more than 40 years of experience in quality. He's been involved in implementing quality management systems since 1985 and has experience with many quality standards, including ISO 9001.

Michelle Bangert talks with Marcel Minutolo, professor of strategic management at Robert Morris University. He's also taught and conducted research in Chile, Tajikistan, Taiwan, China, Israel, Slovakia, and Spain. He's a former military intelligence company commander with multiple deployments and has written several popular articles for Quality.

Dr. Johannes Vrana, author of “The World of NDE 4.0,” has more than 20 years of data science experience and more than 15 years of experience with sensor technology. He is a doctorate in the field of NDT and he's also an ASNT level three. (Image courtesy of Dr. Johannes Vrana / graphics by BNP Media)

Richard Asiedu-Ofori, metrologist and quality management systems professional with Richedna Consultancy, sits down with Quality to talk measurement uncertainty. (Image courtesy of Richard Asiedu-Ofori / graphics by BNP Media)

Michelle Bangert talks with Bill Soller, President and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt of the Corporate Advantage Network. He's also a Senior Facilitator for the Deming Institute.(Image Credit: Bill Soller)

In a joint Assembly/Quality podcast, Jennifer Pierce, multimedia editor with Assembly Magazine and the host of Assembly Audible, and Michelle Bangert, managing editor of Quality, explore an area where assembly and quality intersect: machine vision, with David Dechow, founder and owner of Machine Vision Source. He'll be speaking at the Assembly Show this fall. His session is “Benefiting from Machin...