Large Language Models in Quality Work: Useful, Confident and Occasionally Wrong
Where LLMs genuinely earn their place in quality work, where they fail in dangerous ways, and how to control them…
Audits & Compliance
95 articles
The Limits of Remote Auditing: What a Camera Genuinely Cannot Verify
A practical boundary between remote and on-site audit evidence: which records, interviews and verifications survive the lens, and which demand…
IRIS Certification and Proving Quality Across a Forty-Year Rail Lifecycle
ISO 22163 demands evidence that outlives its authors. What RAMS discipline, lifecycle documentation and obsolescence management must actually deliver for…
Deciding the Recall Before the Evidence Is Complete
Field defect decisions are made in the gap between what you know and what you need to know. Here is…
Defence Contracts: Quality Requirements That Outlive the Programme
Configuration control, records retention and obsolescence management decide whether a thirty-year defence platform can still prove conformance when the people…
Attribute Agreement Analysis: Measuring Visual Judgement Before It Fails You
How to design, run and interpret an attribute agreement study for visual inspection, from kappa and prevalence effects to boundary-sample…
Injection Moulding Quality: Replacing Setter Folklore With Measured Variables
Cavity pressure, viscosity curves and documented qualification studies convert tribal process knowledge into a control plan that survives audits, tool…
Hydrogen Embrittlement Control in High-Strength Fastener Plating
A plating certificate proves the documented process ran, not that the fastener is free of trapped hydrogen. What hardness thresholds,…
Corrective vs Preventive Action: Why CAPA Systems Become Paperwork Engines
Most CAPA systems document nonconformances rather than eliminate their causes. The structural fixes required to turn compliance theatre into genuine…
Control Plan Compliance: Eliminating the Gap Between Document and Process
Most automotive Control Plans are copy-pasted PPAP artefacts ignored on the shop floor. Here is how to rebuild them as…