Statistics and Data Science Degrees: Overhyped or the Real Deal?
Data science is hot right now.
Perfect Information: Customer Reviews That Influence Purchasing Decisions
Whether you are booking a hotel room, choosing a restaurant, deciding on what movie to see, or buying any number of things, it is likely you have read online reviews before making your decision.
How to Do One. Thing. At. A. Time.
In his book, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordin
Bootstrap Kaizen
I am writing today about “bootstrap kaizen.” This is something I have been thinking about for a while.
The Best Performance Measure for the Manufacturing CEO
If you are a CEO of a manufacturing company with many value streams, it’s impractical to think that you have the time to review all the performance measures of every value stream in your company.
Inside Quality Digest Live for October 19, 2018
Leaders lead. Those two simple words conceal the complicated fact that being a change agent means confronting the failures of the past and confidently facing the promise of the future.
Hundreds of Colgate-Palmolive’s Engineers Will Wear the HMT-1 Hands-Free Computer
(RealWear: Vancouver, WA) -- Colgate-Palmolive Co. has selected RealWear as its strategic provider of hands-free wearable computers for its industrial workforce.
Self-Healing Material Can Build Itself From Carbon In the Air
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA) -- A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself.
Womanufacturing
It takes guts to come to the heart of high tech, in San Francisco, and preach a message that is about putting people—women, no less—onto the assembly lines of America’s factories.
Metrics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Metrics are an important part of an effective quality management system (QMS). They are necessary to understand, validate, and course-correct the QMS. They should be used to verify that it is achieving the goals and objectives defined by management.
