One distinct color I notice is carefully used throughout many companies is red. Aside from being used with other colors to promote things like hunger, red often gives a more aggressive and loud expres...

Piercing the corporate veil would seem to be an appropriate course of action in court when there is serious misconduct within the operations of the company. Most of the time, judges attempt to avoid p...

The benefit of a C-corp is that you can deduct costs on your corporate taxes if you need to pay employee benefits. For any company that plans to grow, you will need a certain amount of shareholders to...

There are a few important differences between public and private companies. The biggest would have to be that public companies open their shares to the public whereas private companies sell to certain...

Although I do not work in Quality, I would like to pitch in some input on how our company prepares and handles audits. Every year, our holding company carries out an unannounced mock audit. These mock...

Certainly, having a department oversee another to ensure standards are met can easily create tension between the two. From what I believe, as well from what I've experienced in the industry, I've come...

I work in the Validation department in my company. Our main goal in validation is to test supporting hardware, as well as new software/software updates. To ensure that the types of tests, as well as t...

Personally, from my experience working in the industry, I've actually discovered something rather interesting regarding this topic. I've met multiple people from very different ethnic backgrounds. Man...

Accuracy and precision are crucial factors that must be considered when developing any medical device. Medical devices today typically consist of multiple parts and dimensions. In addition, these prod...

Determining how restricted a certain medical device or drug should be in order to effectively protect consumers is certainly a difficult and somewhat abstract task. Assessing the risks and possible si...

To begin, I believe before running any type of test, determining the molecular compound, as well as the intended application, of the material is the top priority. For example, titanium, certain cerami...

This is a very interesting point you bring up. I would personally love to live to see the day when we've developed technology that will eliminate the need for animal trials. To answer your question, I...

I would like to pitch in on that idea. In my opinion, I do not believe that even with "99.9% certainty" from computers will humans still find it necessary to use animals for testing. In addition, if w...

To start off, I would first argue that it is inaccurate to even consider a single phase as being the "least important" out of the rest when talking about the project life cycle. Like many systems, eve...

From the initial post, I too believe having a more transparent connection between the manager and the engineers under him or her is key to guarantee the elimination of unexpected drawbacks and mistake...