On those sweltering summer days—when it’s too hot to play at the playground, it seems like you could fry an egg on the pavement, and your car feels like an oven after a couple hours parked at the mall—it’s not just the beating sun that’s driving up the temperature.

Let me give you my definition of “PowerPointing”: To provide a presentation of slides so crammed with text that the background no longer shows, and that are read aloud, line by line, by someone staring at a screen rather than the audience.

I n my September column, I showed how the normal distribution is the distribution of maximum uncertainty.

(LNS: Cambridge, MA) -- LNS Research’s latest report, “Measuring Cost of Quality as a Holistic Business Metric” provides executives and plant managers with a strong understanding of the cost of quality’s strengths as well as how companies can implement it into their operational excellence framewo

Advancing the organization and achieving business success require developing new products, finding new markets, and building enabling systems and infrastructure.

Electronic applications typically have challenging surfaces, angles, steps, and structures that must be measured during development. Whether it is circuit-board flatness or microstructures on the board itself, precise measurement is crucial.

I’m a customer. One morning last week, I visited my bank for a small requirement that should have taken about two minutes. However, there was a big line and 27 people were ahead of me. This was my fourth visit to this bank for the same requirement.