Every quality professional has built a pipeline. Across pharma, aerospace, electronics, software, even television, they are the same shape: a repeatable process that turns something raw and variable into a result you can ship to a standard, with an audit trail that proves how you got there.
For seventy-five years we have run those pipelines on Deming's cycle. Plan, Do, Study, Act. The cycle does not change. Who performs the Study step is about to.
This session reframes AI agents not as a vendor pitch but as the next link in that shared lineage — agent-native PDSA, where the agent observes the run and proposes the revision, the operator approves and the audit trail comes for free rather than bolted on.
Most AI pilots die in the gap between proof-of-concept and enterprise scale. We name the three failures that kill them and the three executive muscles that prevent each one.
You will leave able to demand audit-trail-baked-in from any AI build, and with permission from your own lineage to lead this transition.
Key Takeaways for Attendees
• See agent-native operations as the next link in Deming's chain - an extension of PDSA, not a replacement for the quality professional's judgment
• Diagnose why AI pilots stall and distinguish common-cause from special-cause variation when a pilot fails
• Demand audit-trail-baked-in -ALCOA principles apply to agent chains the same way they apply to GxP data
• Run agent-native PDSA- the agent proposes the revision, you approve it
Eddie Belaval is the founder of ID8Labs, a Miami studio building agent-native operating systems — software where AI agents do real work and humans stay at the decision point. For twenty years he built and ran production pipelines in documentary television, the machinery that turns thousands of hours of raw footage into a finished episode that ships on a deadline, to a standard, week after week. Strip the domain away and it was quality work: repeatable process, control points, root-cause when something broke, an audit trail from raw to final cut. A self-taught builder, he now applies the same discipline to operations across any industry — on the conviction that the pipeline is the same shape everywhere, and that agents change how we build it.
The Next Link in Deming's Chain: AI Agents and the Future of Quality
This is not a vendor pitch. Eddie reframes AI agents as the next link in a lineage every quality professional already owns — agent-native PDSA, where the agent proposes the revision, the operator approves and the audit trail comes for free rather than bolted on.
You will walk away knowing the three failures that kill most AI pilots before they scale, the three executive muscles that prevent each one, and exactly how to demand audit-trail-baked-in from any AI build.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
7:00 PM ET | Virtual | 0.5 RU Credit
Free for ASQ Members | Open to all quality professionals
Register here: https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r2132a1ed04d988aa954676b663fcdcde