Quality Magazine

2 weeks ago | qualitymag.com | Michelle Bangert

Our 2025 Quality Professional of the Year has nineteen competencies listed on his CV as well as 50 skills listed on LinkedIn—if you’re looking for a certified quality engineer (CQE) or an AS9100 lead auditor, you’re in luck—but also stresses the importance of emotional intelligence. Here, Ben Tomic shares his insights from a long career in quality.

3 weeks ago | qualitymag.com | Darryl Seland

Management Quite a few years ago, I wrote a column about two movies I had recently seen. They were both about baseball. One was Moneyball, the other Trouble With the Curve. Both movies seemed to be advocating for different ends of the same argument that was taking place in the sport at the time: the efficacy of analytics, as applied in particular to the scouting of talent.

3 weeks ago | qualitymag.com | Jacob Stoller

Years ago, I attended a small sustainability conference. Most of the exhibitors were large corporations and industry associations that extolled their environmental initiatives in speeches and panel discussions, and in graphically pleasing brochures and slide presentations. The company that stood out, however, was a small furniture manufacturer that was applying lean principles. The slides were very plain, but unlike the others, they had real numbers.

1 month ago | qualitymag.com | John Sprovieri

Here we go again. On Feb. 1, President Donald Trump signed executive orders to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. The 10 percent tariffs on all imports from China took effect Feb. 4. He subsequently provided a 30-day suspension for the tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which are scheduled to take effect March 4. China announced retaliation on $21.2 billion worth of U.S. exports at rates of 10 percent and 15 percent, to take effect on Feb. 10. He signed two proclamations Feb.

1 month ago | qualitymag.com | Michelle Bangert

Whether you’re testing a plane with Dr. Ben Tomic, using a template he taught you in college, or volunteering alongside him to put on an international conference, you have been lucky to have him in the quality field. In between being a quality leader at Bombardier Aviation, he teaches at Sheridan College, provides consulting and auditing, and volunteers as a division leader with the American Society for Quality.