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A record number of employees have or plan to quit. Already hobbled by the pandemic, businesses are now looking for new ways to balance investment in talent attraction, professional development, and finding tools to increase productivity. With more people reconsidering their careers, many companies…
According to the CDC, approximately one out of six Americans are diagnosed with foodborne diseases each year. Out of this, about 128,000 are hospitalized, and as many as 3,000 lose their lives.
These sorry statistics show why food safety is paramount and why more effort should be put into reducing…
(Siemens Digital Industries Software: Plano, TX) -- Siemens Digital Industries Software has collaborated with NVIDIA to improve computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Part of the Xcelerator portfolio of software and services, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2022.1 software brings CUDA-enabled GPU…
In 2010, new to the world of statistical process control (SPC), I was intrigued by Don Wheeler’s statement that “No data have meaning apart from their context” (from his book, Understanding Variation—The Key to Managing Chaos, SPC Press, 2000, available on Amazon). For a while, I didn’t really get…
The pandemic promises ongoing challenges for healthcare providers in 2022 as they cope with nursing shortages and cybersecurity threats amid shifts previously underway for the industry. How they manage their clinical assets, however, can present opportunities to overcome those challenges while…
(IAF: Chelsea, Quebec, Canada) -- The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has announced that it is conducting extended market research to evaluate market support for a fully-populated management systems certificate database. Before IAF members vote on whether or not to mandate that accredited…
As the world moves toward a new, post-pandemic normal, industries must leverage digital transformation at an accelerated pace. This is already happening. According to IBM, 67 percent of manufacturers have accelerated digital projects since Covid-19.
Although improved operational efficiency is…
Every February, there are welcome reminders that spring is on the way. The first for me is a witch hazel bush in my front yard that defies subfreezing weather to produce fragrant yellow flowers. Then, a few weeks later, crocuses and winter aconites will emerge from the snow. The cycle continues…
All too often the topic of fixing dirty data is neglected in the plethora of online media covering artificial intelligence (AI), data science, and analytics. This is wrong for many reasons.
To highlight just one, confidence in the quality of data is the vital foundation of all analysis. This topic…
Machine learning has the potential to drastically improve efficiency and the quality of care in hospitals by tackling hard-to-predict problems like ICU occupancy or which patients are likely to be readmitted.
Yet, a big barrier to any technology working optimally is getting full buy-in from its…
Inside every cellphone lies a tiny mechanical heart, beating several billion times a second. These micromechanical resonators play an essential role in cellphone communication. Buffeted by the cacophony of radio frequencies in the airwaves, the resonators select just the right frequencies for…
(ForTest: Modena, Italy) -- At the beginning of 2000, ForTest understood the importance of process traceability to optimize production efficiency and reduce waste due to nonconformities, anticipating what is now called Industry 4.0.
ForTest instruments give added value in their use at the end of…
Last month we looked at analyzing observational data. Here we will consider experimental data and discover a weakness in the way they are obtained that can contribute to the problem of nonreproducible results.
Background
The discipline of statistics grew up in agricultural and biomedical research…
About 3.5 million people have at least temporarily left the U.S. workforce since March 2020. More than one-third of them—1.2 million—are in the leisure and hospitality industry.
This has created huge problems for restaurants, hotels, and other leisure and hospitality businesses that have struggled…
About 3.5 million people have at least temporarily left the U.S. workforce since March 2020. More than one-third of them—1.2 million—are in the leisure and hospitality industry.
This has created huge problems for restaurants, hotels, and other leisure and hospitality businesses that have struggled…
About 3.5 million people have at least temporarily left the U.S. workforce since March 2020. More than one-third of them—1.2 million—are in the leisure and hospitality industry.
This has created huge problems for restaurants, hotels, and other leisure and hospitality businesses that have struggled…
About 3.5 million people have at least temporarily left the U.S. workforce since March 2020. More than one-third of them—1.2 million—are in the leisure and hospitality industry.
This has created huge problems for restaurants, hotels, and other leisure and hospitality businesses that have struggled…
(Meller Optics: Providence, RI) -- Custom-fabricated sapphire prisms that are ideally suited for use in instruments that measure moving liquids and slurries in real-time have been introduced by Meller Optics of Providence, Rhode Island.
Meller sapphire prisms feature Mohs 9 hardness to provide the…
Do you ever feel like you’re spending money like crazy on marketing and getting little or nothing in return? If so, you might be tempted to pull the plug on marketing altogether. That would be a big mistake.
An effective marketing strategy can mean the difference between your organization’s success…
Life science organizations play a vital role in healthcare’s technology revolution, with a key focus on identifying the right opportunities to scale digital transformation. Currently, life sciences leaders are leaning into areas such as automation, which was discussed at length at ArisGlobal’s…
There’s a misconception that the most successful business leaders are born with their leadership credentials imprinted in their DNA. Surely because they’re more successful than their peers, it stands to reason they’re extremely sharp or even smarter than their non-CEO cohorts. But in truth, what…
(NVision: Southlake, TX) -- Some U.S. global technology companies specializing in consumer electronics, computers, and online services are bringing a portion of their manufacturing back to the United States following rapid certification of American-made product packaging by NVison, an engineering…
(AMETEK: Oak Ridge, TN) -- The ORTEC Products Group of AMETEK’s Material Analysis Division has released the Detective-X-TS (Detective-X Trans-SPEC Edition), a portable gamma spectrometer for mobile and field gamma spectroscopy measurements.
The Detective-X-TS is the successor to ORTEC’s legacy…
In four years, more than 30 percent of businesses and organizations will include edge computing in their cloud deployments to address bandwidth bottlenecks, reduce latency, and process data for decision support in real time. Edge computing accomplishes this by bringing the businesses’ computational…
The lean manufacturing movement evolved from a desire to reduce waste and inefficiencies and improve productivity on the shop floor. Many manufacturers have also benefited from the resulting continuous improvement mindset as engaged employees became empowered to change things for the better.…
