A team of MIT researchers has developed a way of making a high-temperature version of a kind of materials called photonic crystals, using metals such as tungsten or tantalum.

(Geomagic: Morrisville, NC) -- Geomagic, a global provider of 3-D software for creating and inspecting digital models of physical objects, will be demonstrating its latest 3-D reverse-engineering and inspection software products throughout the SolidWorks World 2012, scheduled for Feb.

(Gartner: Stamford, CT) -- The Gartner Business Process Management Summit is the largest, most comprehensive business process management (BPM) conference in the industry.

(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, an independent global organization that writes public health standards and certifies products for food, water, and consumer goods, now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action’s (CPA)

(WCBF: Chicago) -- The Worldwide Conventions and Business Forums (WCBF), an independent organization headquartered in Chicago that researches and produces high-quality, senior-level lean, Six Sigma, and process excellence events, has a predominant mission for 2012.

(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- The ISO 13485 internal auditor training program from the University at Buffalo provides the skills necessary to perform process audits in the medical device industry, which results in findings for continual improvement.

Your plane hasn’t even left its gate, and you already feel defeated by another harried day of travel.

The great artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research engineer Javier Atencia certainly believes in the wisdom of what da Vinci preached; he has a reputat

This case study provides an overview of the design, development, implementation, and subsequent management of a total quality management (TQM) system developed for the international division of the largest drilling contractor in the world, which is based in Houston.