How to Have More Successful Conversations
Negotiating a salary increase or a job promotion ranks high on the list of hard conversations to have at work, and it doesn’t get any easier without a plan.
SIOP Expert Suggests Supply Chain Requires 360° Planning
(LMA Consulting Group: Claremont, CA) -- Manufacturing and supply chain expert Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting Group, predicts supply chain disr
PQ Systems Acquires The Elsmar Cove
(PQ Systems: Dayton, OH) -- PQ Systems, the most recommended provider of quality software solutions, has acquired The Elsmar Cove, the leading quality forum for industry professionals.
Intermediaries Must Produce or Get Out
Ryan Day1 describes how the rise of independent auto dealers is a “gray swan” event for the automobile industry. This was not only bound to happen, as observed by the author, but also long overdue.
How to Prepare a Maintenance Budget
Top management often struggles to approve large sums required for annual maintenance because the expense is seen as a necessary evil. As a result, if a business encounters short-term financial constraints, the first place it looks for savings is maintenance.
Field Inspection Management Digitizes Inspection Processes in Minutes
(Fulcrum: St. Petersburg, FL) -- Fulcrum has added intelligent team automation capabilities to its Field Inspection Management platform.
What is smart manufacturing?
If you look up "smart manufacturing," you mostly find a lot of jargon. But what does it look like to the people who use it? We talk with Paul Rogers, president of the North, South, and Central America region for Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division.
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Using Smart Technologies to Improve Quality and Reliability
In 2007, Nassim Taleb described black swans as highly improbable events that had dramatic or even catastrophic effects on markets and economies.
NIST Discovery Could Increase Accuracy in Measuring Blood Flow
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a potential source of error when using acoustic waves to measure the properties of fluids such as blood.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Introduces IRXross FTIR Spectrophotometer
(Shimadzu Scientific Instruments: Columbia, MD) -- Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces the IRXross™ Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer.