Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series. In part two, former manufacturing managers will offer tips and best practices on how to transition from manufacturing to consulting.

So, we have a process improvement program installed. Our people are trained or are getting trained. We have a list of prioritized improvement efforts, and we are attacking that list concertedly. We are tracking our improvement benefits, and the numbers are good.

Using a novel method of integrating video technology and familiar control devices, a research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology is developing a technique to simplify remote control of robotic devices.

Editor’s note: In an upcoming webinar presented by EtQ and moderated by Quality Digest, we will consider the elements of risk management and what to look for in an effective software

Looking for an event to attend where you get up-to-date information on the latest hardware and software? Try attending a user conference of a prospective vendor. You might be pleasantly surprised at how much you learn.

(PIVOT Mgmt Consultants) -- TRIZ is a systematic method for innovation that greatly amplifies your creativity to solve problems by efficiently drawing upon the inventive principles and processes used by thousands of inventors across all disciplines.

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