Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Unlike other holidays, there is no pretentiousness. You can arrive at the host’s home dressed in everyday attire, unencumbered by a load of presents.

In a perfect world, we’d all be looking forward to the holiday season without anxiety. Unfortunately, for most employees, that isn’t even close to being the case.

During the first winter storm this year in the Northeast, I found myself, along with hundreds of thousands of folks in the area, without power for the better part of a week. It was a long wait before the lights came on… and the heat.

(NIST: Gaithersberg, MD) -- U.S.

(S. Chand Group: New Delhi) -- Implementing Six Sigma in Education Towards TQM in Academics, by Dheeraj Mehrotra (S.

A short time after I moved into operations as the vice president of manufacturing, our assembly department made an early and, dare I say, imperfect attempt to realign the factory floor for ease-of-material delivery and pick up.

In the wake of recent failures in corporate governance, two new standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will help organizations to disclose corporate information quickly and effectively.

The elimination of waste (muda) from all manufacturing and logistics activities is an obvious concept. Less obvious is the fact that waste often hides in plain view.

(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) International Policy Committee (IPC) has published a white paper examining standards and conformance issues affecting the ability of U.S. industry to conduct global trade.

(InnovMetric: Québec City, Québec) -- InnovMetric Software has announced that version 12 of its PolyWorks/Modeler reverse-engineering solution offers parametric 2-D sketching capabilities at no additional cost.