Quality system objectives were originally introduced as part of the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system. ISO 9001:2000 mandated the use of quality objectives at every important area of a company's ...

Every compressed file involves dozens of configuration-related decisions, including resolution, data rate, H.264 profile, VBR or CBR, entropy coding technique, x.264 preset, b-frames, reference frames ...

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. In June 2022, the AICPA’s Auditing ...

Total Quality Management is a formal management style premised on the notion that measurement of a finished product or project is insufficient to ensure quality. Instead, each process necessary for ...

Many IndustryWeek readers will be familiar with the use of a quality management system (QMS) to establish quality objectives. But as the name implies, a QMS is more about managing quality than ...

Advances in technologies underlying the capture, transfer, storage and display of video images have grown steadily, making an ever increasing number of video applications economically feasible. Video ...

Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. The interrelated final standards on ...

How often and how much does your firm think about quality? Every auditor is, by nature, committed to quality. Every firm has final quality control steps built into its production process. However, ...

I spend a lot of time assessing video quality, sometimes to compare different codecs, but more frequently to identify the optimal encoding techniques. For example, does an I-frame interval of 3 ...

A number of video quality compromises occur at each step. How can you tell if the video quality is good enough? One obvious way is to solicit the opinion of a group of human observers. After all, the ...

Has your firm started work on implementing the new quality management standards? If you haven't already started, it may be challenging getting it done by the Dec. 15, 2025, deadline for having a ...