Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest

Editor in Chief

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Dirk Dusharme is Quality Digest’s editor in chief.

Wed, 12/10/2025 - 12:03
3-D Measurement: Affordable Portables—One Manual, One Auto Two new 3-D measurement portables open up on-machine inspection for small or low-volume shops
Tue, 03/15/2011 - 06:00
During the last couple of decades we have seen huge advances in laser trackers, portable arms, structured light scanners, laser scanners, photogrammetry devices, and other 3-D measurement technologies that have made accurate 3-D shop floor…
Baldrige Program Goes Lean Budget shortfall means creative funding alternatives for quality icon
Thu, 02/17/2011 - 14:19
President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011, which begins in October, includes funds to keep the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) ticking over, after a fashion, for another year. The $7.7 million currently on the…
Teaching Kids That Manufacturing Can Be Fun If you can’t bring talent to manufacturing, bring manufacturing to the talent
Mon, 02/14/2011 - 05:00
One of the laments we hear quite frequently in the manufacturing sector is the lack of skilled employees available in the hiring pool. In the age of high-definition video games, social networking, and phones that have more capability than your five-…
Should Food Safety Laws Apply to All Growers? Yes—but more tools are needed for the small grower
Thu, 12/16/2010 - 04:30
For most of us, food safety is a topic that, at best, only lurks at the edges of our brains. It rarely becomes something we really think about until we open up our refrigerator and try to figure out what’s growing in the back corner of the bottom…
Interview: Norman Bodek, the Quality Missionary Quality guru is among Industry Week’s 2010 manufacturing “dream team”
Wed, 11/24/2010 - 05:00
Recently, Industry Week (IW) announced the 10 inductees to its 2010 Manufacturing Hall of Fame, a “lineup of industrial superstars whose collective careers have had an immeasurable impact and influence on U.S. manufacturing.” Included in the…
Shaping an Obsession With a lump of clay and the help of a laser scanning company, a teenager builds his future with his own hands
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 06:00
A favorite media lament these days concerns the lack of high-school graduates prepared to go forth into design, engineering, or technology. That’s why we have seen so much push recently on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…
3-D Scanning Helps Scientists Find Genetic Markers for Facial Abnormalities Comparing face shape to DNA
Mon, 08/23/2010 - 05:30
Story update 8/26/2010: We incorrectly stated that Dr. Richard A. Spritz was from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is actually at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver.   Researchers at the University of Calgary,…
Laser Tracker to be Used in 500-Meter Radio Telescope World’s biggest telescope is accurately positioned using sensor and laser tracker
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 06:00
A dish-style radio telescope is being constructed in China that will allow astronomers to detect galaxies and pulsars at unprecedented distances. Not only will the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) be almost 200 meters larger…
A Kata for Developing Solutions Creating a Toyota-style system involves developing your own solutions.
Thu, 06/10/2010 - 06:00
For more than 20 years, Toyota’s methods, known as “lean,” have made headlines. And that’s how long engineer, researcher, and author Mike Rother has been involved with the subject. Like many others, Rother began with Toyota’s production tools. And…
Lightest, Smallest, Most Accurate Laser Tracker Hexagon Metrology introduces battery-powered, ultra-long-range, absolute tracker with IP54 certification.
Wed, 05/19/2010 - 06:57
Hexagon Metrology Inc. announced its latest product at Quality Expo South in Charlotte, North Carolina—the Leica Absolute Tracker AT401, the industry’s first wireless, battery-powered laser tracker. You’re probably thinking, “Yeah, so what?…