Quality & AI | Wednesday, October 7, 2026 Manufacturing quality engineers are used to dealing with variation. When a new gage, inspection method, measurement system, or process is introduced, we don't simply ask whether it works. We ask how much variation it introduces. That discipline exists for a reason. If three trained inspectors evaluate the same 30 parts using the same standard and agree only 36.67% of the time, that is not something we'd shrug off. We'd investigate t