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Akhilesh Gulati
In the world of operations and quality management, the pressure to act quickly can feel overwhelming. Senior executives are constantly racing against time to meet customer demands, solve problems, and keep shareholders satisfied. In the rush to address immediate challenges, “Ready, aim, fire!” gets…
Harish Jose
In this article, I’m exploring complexity through the lens of George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form (Cognizer Co., 1994). This philosophical and mathematical treatise explores the foundations of logic and mathematics via a unique symbolic system. Spencer-Brown introduces a primary algebra based on a…
Quality Digest
(Siemens: Alpharetta, GA) -- Siemens is presenting its latest solutions for smart and networked drive technology. By networking entire drive systems, machine and plant builders as well as end users can simulate machines and plants more accurately using digital twins, perform commissioning, reduce…
Gleb Tsipursky
In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the momentum toward policies mandating a return to the office (RTO) is gaining traction. However, this shift risks overlooking critical segments of the workforce, particularly older employees, individuals with disabilities, and women, whose participation…
Laurie Locascio
So much has changed since I walked onto the Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) almost three years ago to begin my term as its director and U.S. Commerce Undersecretary for Standards and Technology.
We were all still feeling the impacts of…
Quality Digest
(TÜV SÜD: Wakefield, MA) -- TÜV SÜD announced that it has been selected as one of 10 cybersecurity label administrators (CLAs) for the voluntary IoT cybersecurity labeling program of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This program aims to increase security standards for wireless IoT…
Quality Digest
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in product life cycle management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, will participate in an upcoming webinar, “The Human Impacts of Gen AI on the Product Life Cycle.” The webinar,…
William A. Levinson
Recent labor relations controversies and ongoing arguments about the minimum wage have raised questions as to how a supply chain should share the utility it produces.
If we ask the wrong question, however, we’ll get the wrong answer. “What is a fair share?” asks how a supply chain should divide a…
Malcolm Chisholm
Data are the fuel of the Information Age, and all organizations acknowledge the value of well-managed corporate data assets. The problems start when we begin to ask just exactly how the data assets are to be well managed.
In response, many organizations have put data governance departments in…
Quality Digest
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its latest webinars, “Lean Six Sigma—Introduction to the Tools and Methods,” “ASPICE PAM 4.0: What You Need to Know,” and “Performing TARA in Compliance with ISO/SAE 21434.”
Webinar: Lean Six Sigma—Introduction to the Tools and Methods Date and time:…
Quality Digest
(Gauss Labs: Seoul, South Korea) -- Gauss Labs has released the second version of its AI-based virtual metrology solution, Panoptes VM 2.0.
Panoptes VM provides all-wafer measurement data in real time by predicting process outcomes from sensor data. By applying this solution, it’s possible to…
Harry Hertz
A recent Inc.com blog post by Jessica Stillman discusses Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point (Little, Brown and Co., 2024). The theme in both works is that you can’t create a high-performing team simply by bringing together individual high performers. They need to gel as a…
Jennifer Chu
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So chip manufacturers are looking to build up, rather than out.
Instead of squeezing ever-smaller transistors onto a single surface, the industry is aiming to stack…
Quality Digest
(Mahr: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Inc., a leading provider of dimensional metrology solutions, has announced the expansion of its Precimar SM 60 length measurement product line with the introduction of the Precimar SM 60-V small-length measuring bench. This new version of the SM 60 can use Mahr’s…
Quality Digest
(The Hydraulic Institute: Parsippany, NJ) -- The Hydraulic Institute (HI), a leading authority on pumps and pump systems, announced the launch of its new Pump System Certification (PSC) program. Designed to help address the growing need for skilled professionals in the pump and fluid-handling…
Quality Digest
(Evident: Waltham, MA) -- Evident recently announced the release of its IXplore IX85 automated inverted microscope system. With an industry-leading 26.5 mm field number and advanced imaging tools that ensure clear, accurate results, this new system empowers researchers to capture more data and…
Quality Digest
(HSG Laser: Foshan, China) -- HSG Laser, a global leader in metal-shaping equipment and solutions, announces the grand opening of its newest manufacturing facility in Jinan, China—a key milestone in its global manufacturing and supply strategy. This state-of-the-art facility bolsters HSG Laser’s…
Nick Haase
In the evolving landscape of industrial digital transformation, the unified namespace (UNS) has emerged as a transformative approach to enterprise data management. At its core, UNS provides a single source of truth that eliminates barriers between disparate systems and data sources, enabling any…
Peter Zemsky, Ricky Wong
Gemini, O1, Grok, Claude, Llama, Yi, and Mistral: The number of large language models (LLMs) seems to have grown exponentially since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in late 2022. It’s estimated that $154 billion was spent on AI by businesses in 2023, while the most recent …
Quality Digest
(Deloitte: London) -- Deloitte’s annual “Tech Trends” report details six AI-fueled trends shaping business operations, growth, and transformation.
Key takeaways
AI is everywhere. From the server room to the boardroom, artificial intelligence is becoming foundational to enterprise IT, and an…
Ben P. Stein
NIST is unique as the national measurement science institute. We are the U.S. agency responsible for maintaining measurement standards, from the second to the kilogram.
We help ensure that these units of measure are consistent across our watches and our grocery scales. But this isn’t as…
Quality Digest
(Teledyne Technologies: El Segundo, CA) -- Teledyne Controls, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies and a leading provider of innovative avionics and aircraft data management solutions, has announced that its onboard enhanced Airborne Data Loader (eADL XS) has received certification for use on the…
Quality Digest
(ABB: Stonehouse, U.K.) -- ABB has launched ChloroStar, a family of sensors, transmitters, and accessories for accurate and reliable chlorine measurement and analysis that enable users in water, wastewater, and other industries to control chlorine more efficiently, enhancing treatment and…
Donald J. Wheeler
When Sir Ronald Fisher created the analysis of variance (ANOVA) in the 1920s, he extended the two-sample t-test to allow the comparison of k sample averages. During the same time period, Dr. Walter Shewhart was creating the process behavior chart. So it should be no surprise that both techniques…
Mike Figliuolo
Every day there’s a new pile of “experts” cropping up on every subject imaginable. The key to differentiating genuine experts from frauds is to ask the right questions.
Warning: This post is a bit of a rant (but it does have a story and some practical advice). How many new experts are there today…
