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Kyle Toppazzini
A s you may be aware, causality is critical in strategy execution. Without causality, it is nearly impossible to measure the impact of various strategic initiatives of a company’s overall goals; therefore, it would be difficult to tell if you were headed in the right direction, a situation similar…
Bruce Hamilton
I went canoeing last week with my 13-year-old son, Ben, on the boundary lakes between Minnesota and Ontario. Away from phones, radios, and any other means to communicate with the outside world, we focused on the strenuous, but relaxing, journey across lakes and portages.
We’d prepared earlier in…
William A. Levinson
ISO 14001 originated in the 1990s, and ISO 50001 is even newer. The basic and easily understandable concepts behind them have, however, been around for more than 100 years.
Harrington Emerson’s paper, “Efficiency as a Basis for Operation and Wages” (The Engineering Magazine, 1909) uses examples…
Sunnen Products Co.
(Sunnen Products: St. Louis, MO) -- Sunnen Products will rev up your inner gearhead at IMTS by exhibiting the world’s smallest, fully functional production V8 engine at booth N-7400, where machines similar to those used to make the Conley V8 will be displayed.
Booth highlights include: • Gary…
MIT News
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won't fit together because the cutting was not quite accurate enough.
That's exactly what happened to Alec Rivers, a Ph.D. student in MIT’s…
Dawn Keller
I’m a quality engineer, so it probably goes without saying that I like gathering and analyzing data. Minitab and I spend a significant amount of time together. Some might say our relationship is unhealthy—perhaps even codependent.
But Minitab and I have been together for almost 20 years. That’s a…
Michelle LaBrosse
Passionate Pauline is driving down the boulevard in the early morning, whistling to the tune “Oh Happy Day” with a big smile on her face, ready to take on the day with a vengeance and excited to tackle any challenges that may come her way. In the next lane over, Sullen Sue is sulking, and somehow…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McClean, VA) -- June U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $462.95 million, according to The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) program, was down 0.6 percent from May and…
Alan Nicol
The most important pieces of information we must manage are product requirements, yet it seems to be something that lacks a standard practice or much discussion of best practice. Improve how your organization maintains requirements records.
In my experience, the most important element of successful…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is building an even better future as a national steward of validated management practices; even better operations, systems, and processes for the thousands of organizations that have adopted Baldrige; and even better…
Qualitest USA LC
(Qualitest: Fort Lauderdale, FL) -- Qualitest offers an attractive range of top-quality portable and tabletop inverted metallurgical microscopes to complement metallography labs. The portable range offered in both optical and digital configurations provide ultimate flexibility for in-situ analysis…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo, a leader in the research and development of products and services in the precision instrument industry, has announced an upcoming webinar with special guest presenter Gregory P. Martin, the president of Complectors Consulting and an industry expert…
Industrial Scientific
(Industrial Scientific: Pittsburgh) -- Industrial Scientific, a global leader in gas detection as a service, announced that the recent and continued growth of the company’s portable gas detection business has led to more than 40 job openings being posted.
The open positions, many of which are at…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) will be playing an integral role in the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) announced on Aug. 16, 2012, by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Department of Defense in Youngstown, Ohio.
The $30 million…
Taylor Hobson
Researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville are using the Talysurf CCI Lite optical 3D profiler from AMETEK Taylor Hobson to measure next-generation photovoltaic cells made from lower-cost materials that offer substantially improved energy conversion efficiencies.
The Optoelectronics…
Matthew E. May
Which comes first, success or happiness? Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard and perform well, we’ll be more successful. And if we are successful, then we’ll be happy.
But according to Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage: The 7 Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel…
Trimble Navigation Ltd.
(Trimble: Sunnyvale, CA) -- Trimble has introduced the Spectra Precision DR400 DigiRod, a combination productivity tool that eliminates the need for grade rods when checking grades with a rotating laser. The combination of a laser receiver with digital readout, laser distance meter, and built-in…
Mineral Technologies
(Minerals Technologies: Bethlehem, PA) -- Minerals Technologies Inc. has introduced a fourth-generation Lacam laser measurement system for use in the worldwide steel industry that is 17 times faster than the previous version. This new technology provides the fastest and most accurate laser scanning…
(TAKE Solutions: Princeton, NJ) -- TAKE Solutions, a leader in the supply chain management (SCM) and life sciences domains, has released a new version of OneSCM, a multi-enterprise collaboration suite for managing extended supply chain operations. The latest version introduces tight integration for…
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Berkeley, CA) -- A long-time staple of science fiction is the tractor beam, a technology in which light is used to move massive objects—recall the tractor beam in the movie Star Wars that captured the Millennium Falcon and pulled it into the Death Star.…
Robert Half International Inc.
(Robert Half: Menlo Park, CA) -- For workers, “show me the way” can be just as important as “show me the money,” suggests new research from Accountemps, the world’s largest specialized temporary staffing company for accounting, finance, and bookkeeping professionals. In the survey, more than half (…
Guidon Performance Solutions LLC
(Guidon Performance Solutions: Phoenix) -- According to an article in the American Medical News journal, 150 hospitals in the United States have seen reduced readmission rates, improved emergency care, and better adherence to care standards due to involvement in the Hospital Quality Network.…
Christopher Martin
Last year, the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) left a lasting impression from the onset, with the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix being rocked by a huge thunderstorm the night before the conference kicked off, all amid hot and humid weather. Not to be outdone, CMSC 2012 took to New…
Tammy Serensits
Now that the 2012 Olympics have concluded, the sight of all those muscular athletes has me thinking about my own physical fitness. I’m pretty active for 30-something. I try to hit the gym or pool daily, and I’ve been working through the Beachbody P90X and INSANITY workout programs for the past…
Kyle Toppazzini
Whenever I write about continuous improvement and lean Six Sigma, without fail I get a comment about Toyota and its quality issues. So I decided to investigate this matter further, present the facts, and let the data be the voice of reason. I do expect the proverbial “Yabut and Costello” comments—i…
