Editor’s note: Judy Fainor will be a guest on Quality Digest Live this Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, at 11 a.m. Pacific/2 p.m. Eastern. Fainor will also present a webinar on this topic on Tuesday, September 24, at 11 a.m.

Computer scientists at MIT and the National University of Ireland (NUI) at Maynooth have developed a mapping algorithm that creates dense, highly detailed 3D maps of indoor and outdoor environments in real time.

(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Automakers are not pleasing customers as much as they did a year ago, although pent-up demand is pushing strong sales, according to a recent report by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).

This weekend my 3-year-old son and I were playing with his marble run set, and he said to me, “The marbles start together, but they don’t finish together!”

Although factory labor rules are notoriously hard to enforce, a new study shows how some inspectors are able to uphold workplace standards.