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Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Why is it that some improvement efforts succeed while others fail despite robust change management programs and the often do-or-die pressure to improve? Quite simply, there are three elements that separate those that succeed from those that fail. They are the…
University of Michigan
Emerging nations, long seen as a source of low-cost services such as manufacturing and IT support, now are home to a new breed of multinational company. These new players, stepping forward from the background and building global brands, pose a new and serious threat to established multinational…
Akhilesh Gulati
Starting from scratch, Gil had slowly built a small business and was running it quite successfully. He was a professional at heart: He gained the confidence of customers and prospects, met their expectations, negotiated better prices, and provided personalized service. Life was good. Things were…
Edward D. Hess
Innovation is a popular buzzword in the business world today. Everyone wants to be the next Apple or Facebook, revolutionizing their products and services by creating the next iPad or Zappos-style service model. But they don’t. They can’t.
Most companies pump out the same old gadgets and services,…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has just completed work to provide identical structure, text, and common terms and definitions for management system standards of the future. This will ensure consistency among future and revised management system standards…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, has announced the first accreditations of health information technology (HIT) certification bodies under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of…
Renishaw
(Renishaw: New Mills, UK) -- the RESOLUTE UHV is the latest ultra-high vacuum (UHV) compatible read head from Renishaw, offering true-absolute position feedback, submicron accuracy, and resolutions to 1 nm for both linear and rotary applications. The new range of RESOLUTE UHV encoders are…
TÜV Rheinland of North America
(TÜV Rheinland: Newtown, CT) -- TÜV Rheinland Industrial Solutions (TRIS) will hold a free webinar to discuss the benefits of nondestructive inspections using the phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) method, an advanced method of ultrasonic testing that can reveal defects in material that cannot…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick MA) -- Cognex Corp., a global manufacturer of machine vision systems, has introduced the In-Sight 7010, an entry level vision system developed specifically for inspection tasks where vision sensors are too limited and a standard vision system may not be cost effective.
Every aspect…
CRC Press
(CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL) -- The consequences of taking on risk can be ruinous to personal finances, professional careers, corporate survivability, and even nation states. Yet many risk managers do not have a clear understanding of the basics. Requiring no statistical or mathematical background,…
Knowledge at Wharton
It was 2003, exactly 56 years after Ole Kirk Christiansen bought the first plastic injection molding machine in Denmark to start manufacturing plastic bricks for building-block toys. On the surface, or so it seemed, the LEGO Group had done everything right over that time period.
The company was an…
Matthew Littlefield
Executives today are making quality management a focal point in their operations and as a result, the role of the chief quality officer (CQO) is gaining ground in both popularity and relevance. Couple emerging technologies, such as enterprise quality management software, with the task of changing a…
Craig Cochran
President Obama was recently quoted in a CBS news article as saying that if he could change anything about his presidency, it would be to tell more stories. That got me thinking. Could “storyteller” really be a legitimate role for a leader?
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Fluke Corp.
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Corp. introduces the Fluke 320 Series True-rms Clamp Meters, a complete line of tools engineered to produce noise-free, reliable measurements in the toughest environments. Designed to be long-lasting and easy to use, the Fluke 323, 324, and 325 clamp meters are ideal…
Kistler
(Kistler: Novi, MI) -- Kistler, a global supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has announced the availability of its piezoelectric and variable capacitive sensing technologies for flight test…
Dolan-Jenner
(Dolan-Jenner: Boxborough, MA) -- Dolan-Jenner Industries, an ANSI-ASQ ISO 9001-certified designer and manufacturer of fiber-optic components and related illumination systems for microscopy, forensics, diagnostic imaging, and machine vision industries, has developed the Fiber-Lite LMI-6000 LED…
AMETEK
(AMETEK: Largo, FL) -- AMETEK Test & Calibration Instruments, an industry leader in advanced dry-block temperature calibrators, offers two new variants designed for applications that require either extreme cooling or high heat—the JOFRA PTC-125 Cooler and RTC-159 Ultra Cooler calibrators. Both…
Robert Half International Inc.
(Robert Half: Menlo Park, CA) -- How useful are performance reviews? It depends on whom you ask. In an Accountemps survey, 94 percent of chief financial officers (CFOs) interviewed said formal evaluations are either somewhat or very effective in helping employees improve their performance. Yet…
NIST
A new report by a national committee of U.S. industry and university leaders details 16 recommendations “aimed at reinventing manufacturing in a way that ensures U.S. competitiveness, feeds into the nation’s innovation economy, and invigorates the domestic manufacturing base.”
The report was…
Matthew E. May
In a business climate where only the best companies survive and thrive, one thing is clear: You must avoid the stupid stuff. You must eliminate the things that leave customers and employees scratching their heads, frustrated, and mystified.
The problem is that every company, no matter what size,…
McGraw-Hill
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- Artists put their work on display for everyone to judge, accepting a position of vulnerability to comment on the human condition and contribute to the common good. Artists bring people closer together by providing a forum for shared experiences. They challenge, excite,…
Adept Technology
(Adept Technology: Pleasanton, CA) -- Adept Technology, a provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, will be demonstrating to China’s food-industry professionals how the Adept Quattro s650H robot, when integrated within high-speed automated packaging applications,…
American Sensor Technologies AST
(AST: Mt. Olive, NJ) -- American Sensor Technologies Inc. (AST), designer and manufacturer of MEMS pressure sensors, transducers, and transmitters, has released the AST46SW explosion-proof pressure switch. Complementing AST’s complete offering of explosion proof pressure transmitters, the AST46SW…
Frost and Sullivan
(Frost & Sullivan: Palo Alto, CA) -- Given the current trying financial circumstances, consumers have adopted a conservative approach toward investing in capital equipment, according to a new study now available from Frost & Sullivan. Although dimensional metrology equipment is still…
Jim Frost
Statistics can be unintuitive. What’s a large difference? What’s a large sample size? When is something statistically significant? You might think you know, based on experience and intuition, but you really don’t know until you actually run the analysis. You must run the proper statistical tests to…
