Pitch is a representation of takt image—a visual and often audible management time frame that lean practitioners use to pace and monitor value stream performance. It’s typically driven by, and linked to, a value stream or line’s pacemaker process.

(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers

(METTLER TOLEDO: Columbus, OH) -- METTLER TOLEDO’s Good Weighing Practice (GWP) was introduced in 2007 and presents a scientific approach to safe selection, calibration and operation of weighing equipment.

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of Matthew May’s “Elegant Solutions.” Read Part 1 here.

(Spectral Evolution: Lawrence, MA) -- The worldwide counterfeit drug market continues to expand, both in developing and developed countries. From fake antimalarial drugs in Africa to counterfeits sold over the Internet, these drugs are detrimental in three primary ways:

Even though modern industrial robots are becoming more nimble and capable, they still need to get a good grip on things, literally, with the equivalent of hands that are as agile and dexterous as the human variety.