(AlixPartners: Detroit) -- Most large manufacturers last year failed to reach their cost-savings targets, despite significant investments in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other productivity programs as part of their overall retrenchment efforts in this tepid economy.

(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., a leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has developed improvements to its laser scanner, the Focus3D.

(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- The case studies throughout the book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management (McGraw-Hill, 2011), illustra

(AMA: New York) -- When you procrastinate, you affect both your career and your personal life.

(DCS: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems Inc.

Last May, the director of the vegetable research institute at the Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Science in Qingdao, China, told the media that the Chinese government does not encourage farmers to use plant hormones on watermelons because watermelons “are very sensi

The results are in: Investments in energy management are a win‐win‐win situation for investors, stakeholders, and the environment. The main objective of an industrial organization is to be profitable by the sale of goods or services.

Back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, people traveling by plane considered it a privilege and a social event. As such, airline travelers dressed accordingly. Men wore suits and perhaps a tie, while ladies wore dresses.

(Third Wave Systems: Minneapolis) -- During last week’s EMO 2011, the international trade fair for the machine tool industry held in Hannover, Germany, Third Wave Systems introduced current customers and members of the international press to its newest machining modeling capabilities: part di

(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- Last year at the 2010 Manufacturing Summit, sponsored by the Swiss Business Hub and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), U.S.