My name is Alan Austin, and I recently described myself as a quality prodigal. I don’t mean to say that I’m very good at spending recklessly, but rather that I have returned to quality after straying onto other paths.

(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The success of a lean manufacturing program depends far more on organizationwide leverage of lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves.

(AMACOM: New York) -- Time-strapped, screen-addicted, value-savvy, and socially engaged, today’s customers are empowered like never before. Their expectations are tougher than ever, and they expect businesses to respect that sense of empowerment—lashing out at those that don’t.

(Mettler-Toledo: Aurora, IL) -- Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision, a leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of machine vision inspection systems for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, packaging, personal care, and household chemical industries, has launched its new CLS Series for packaged pr

On Friday afternoon of March 11, 2011, an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude was detected about 45 miles off the coast of Japan. One of the most powerful ever recorded, it moved the 8,000 square-mile island of Honshu 8 feet to the east.

(AMACOM: New York) -- Everyone puts multiethnic faces in marketing materials, but it’s mostly a token gesture. Because even as the United States grows increasingly diverse, most professionals have little real knowledge of those different from themselves.

(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- After more than 40 years of promise, the next decade will see an explosion in the use of composite materials.

Suppose you were asked to streamline the process of real estate development. Or to better organize the offices of an international manufacturer. Or to explain how the parts of a digital printer interact.