ISO Management Systems Standards
What is ISO 9001 and How Does it Relate to Other Standards? ISO 9001:2015 – Quality management systems – Requirements is a recognized international standard…
Standard Practices for Life on Mars
A shocking amount of threats exist that could end our planet. Aside from those that could be potentially caused by the actions of humans, some…
AS 9100 – Quality Management for Aviation, Space, and Defense Organizations
Update: SAE AS 9100 has been revised. SAE AS 9100D-2016 (SAE AS9100D-2016) – Quality Management Systems – Requirements for Aviation, Space and Defense Organizations is now available….
Virtual Reality – Finding a Standard
Virtual reality has become a recent craze, ever since modern technology has granted the capability to make such a thing possible. Originating in video games…
IEC 60758 – Synthetic Quartz Crystals
IEC 60758 ED. 5.0 EN:2016 – Synthetic quartz crystal – Specifications and guidelines for use has been updated. The newest edition of this standard not…
Walkway Safety in the Commercial Mat Industry
As a business owner who invites customers into their place of business, you have a duty to assure that you maintain the safest environment possible,…
King Tut’s Dagger and the X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Standard
It was revealed in May 2016 that the dagger found beside the thigh of King Tutankhamun in 1925 was made from iron taken from a…
How 3D Printing Helps Animals
3D printing, and the related additive manufacturing process of “joining materials to make parts from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer”, completely changes the…
Cell Phone Towers Disguised as Trees
Nature often clashes with society, and the companies and groups involved with the incompatibility will make attempts to assimilate their products and/or services with the…