How to Talk With Your Kids About… Quality Improvement
My six-year-old came home from school one day very excited to let me know that Maggie’s mommy was a doctor and she helped sick people get better. Seems Maggie’s mommy was a “community hero.”
Workplace Health Care Is a Growing Trend
In an era of soaring medical costs, providing health care to employees at or near their workplace is gaining new momentum, according to an article in the Winter 2012 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review.
CNC Tool Storage Cabinets and Transporters
(Lista: Holliston, MA) -- Lista International Corp., manufacturer of industry’s broadest line and customized storage and workspace solutions, offers its heavy-duty CNC tool storage cabinets and tool transporters, which form the core of the most complete storage system for the modern machining cen
Defects and Defectives Can Ruin a Good Day’s Work
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- The order is set, supply has arrived, and your team has momentum. After you’ve done everything else right, don’t let defects and defectives take success away by adding time, costs, and effort to what should be an easy win.
LayerWise builds the world’s first patient-specific lower jaw from CAD
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LayerWise applied Additive Manufacturing (AM) to produce an Titanium total lower jaw implant reconstruction directly from CAD. The award-winning implant was developed in collaboration with project partners from medical industries and academia. To treat a senior patient’s progressive osteomyelitis of almost the entire lower jaw bone, medical specialists and surgeons opted for such a complete patient-specific implant the first time ever. AM technology specialists at LayerWise printed the complex implant design incorporating articulated joints and dedicated features.
CoreView 6.0 Software for Cognitens Released
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has released CoreView 6.0 for the Cognitens WLS400 series. Winner of Photonic Tech Brief’s 2011 Reader’s Choice Product of the Year, the WLS400 white light series is available in both automated and manual configurations.
Strategies and Solutions for Solving Team Problems
Teams are complicated, complex structures because they are comprised of individuals with different personalities, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Before people can form into an effective team, they must first learn to work together.
VC Smart Inspect Vision Sensor
(Vision Components: Ettlingen, Germany) -- VC Smart Inspect, the new vision sensor from Vision Components, the image processing experts, is an ultracompact and complete machine vision solution for a wide range of industrial applications.
FasTest Flow Bench Step Tree Connectors Allow Fast Bench Calibration
(FasTest: Minneapolis) -- FasTest announces TwistMate AN Step connectors for calibrating flow transmitters on flow benches.
JILA Scientists Confirm First ‘Frequency Comb’ to Probe Ultraviolet Wavelengths
Physicists at JILA, a joint venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have created the first “frequency comb” in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanome
