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 ...

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 ...

Metrology is the science of measuring, characterizing, and analyzing materials. Within metrology, there are several technologies used to detect material defects on a very small scale – precision on ...

BMW wants its EV owners to forget about battery issues. For the high-voltage batteries in the upcoming Neue Klasse EVs, BMW is sticking to a zero-defect approach. Every cell that comes into the ...

Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, a journalist, a philosopher and a statesman, but he did not work in the apparel and footwear industries. However, one of the many quotes he’s so famous for applies ...

Safety and reliability have moved to the top of the list of critical criteria in software development. There are many ways to achieve improved safety and reliability, and one of the best is to employ ...

I recently had to update my password on a site that I joined many, many years ago -- far enough in the past that a "good enough" password was "any five characters." The site now wanted me to have a ...

Testing chips is becoming more difficult, more time-consuming, and much more critical—particularly as these chips end up in cars, industrial automation, and a variety of edge devices. Now the question ...

In 2010, Bill Gates first came up with the term “Innovating to Zero” to advocate a nuclear energy technology that would be safe, reliable and have Zero emissions. It’s an idea that stayed with me ever ...

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 ...