Goodbaby International: A World-Class Quality Model
In October 2011, I attended the 3rd Business Excellence Global Conference and the 17th Asia Pacific Quality Conference held at the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore.
Simple, Cheap 3-D Cameras for Cellphones
When Microsoft’s Kinect—a device that lets Xbox users control games with physical gestures—hit the market, computer scientists immediately began hacking it.
Putting the Quality Back into Supplier Management
Manufacturing is now a global game. The United States is still the world’s largest manufacturer but is no longer the engine for growth it once was. China, Brazil, Australia, India, Singapore, and other countries are building new facilities at a breakneck pace.
Cognex DataMan Takes a Quantum Leap in Bar Code Reading Performance
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. announces the DataMan 300, its most advanced fixed-mount industrial ID reader ever created. The DataMan 300 is designed to handle the most difficult ID code-reading applications on even the highest speed lines.
The Evolution of Electronic Angst
During a recent holiday debriefing with a friend, I learned that a colleague of hers was feeling guilty because she and her husband were unable to afford an iPad for their daughter.
Active Inspection Vision Systems for Packaging and Form Machines
(Teledyne DALSA: Billerica, MA) -- Active Inspection (AI), based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, designs vision systems for machine builders to incorporate into printing presses, packaging machines, and other web and sheet-fed or form machines.
5S First?
Some time ago, while speaking at a conference in the land down under, I was taken to task by a participant for suggesting, “5S is usually the first improvement” in lean implementation.
Miniature Multichannel Spectrometer Engine
(Newport: Irvine, CA) -- Newport Corp., a global leader in lasers and photonics solutions that make, manage, and measure light, has developed the OptoFlash, a miniature, multichannel, spectrometer engine for applications requirin
NSF International Expands Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Services
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF-DBA, an NSF International Health Sciences company providing training, consulting, and auditing for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries, has acquired UK-based medical-device training and consulting company, Pink Associates, with the company’s managing di
Gartner Predicts Three Business Intelligence Trends
(Gartner: Stamford, CT) -- By 2014, fewer than 30 percent of business intelligence (BI) initiatives will align analytics completely with enterprise business drivers, despite alignment being the foremost BI challenge, according to Gartner Inc.
