Is there a difference from a quality perspective between food production and goods manufacturing? You bet there is.

(Jossey-Bass/Wiley: San Francisco) -- We live in a challenging, complex, interconnected, and unpredictable world beset by a range of seemingly insoluble problems.

(Lean Frontiers: Indianapolis) -- Lean Frontiers, provider of events in support of the lean enterprise, presents two 8-hour workshops on implementing lean principles across the manufacturing and logistics interface and within the supply-chain network on Dec. 7 and 8, 2011, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

“L et me drive the boat.” It was the one statement from the creative director I’d come to dread. It usually came within moments of his reading over my shoulder as I wrote advertising copy on my computer.

(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) --  MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, will host “The Art of Distance Coaching,” a free, one-hour Master Black Belt (MBB) webcast, on Thurs., Oct. 13, 2011, at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies, a global provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has launched the Real Men Wear Pink campaign, which includes an online message board to raise money for breast cancer research.

Ask almost anyone what is the No. 1 requirement for Six Sigma success, and he will say: top leadership commitment.

There’s good news and bad news about the United States’ ongoing deficit and debt problems, according to high-profile economists who discussed the subject recently at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

My wife and I were waiting near the departure gate at a miniature regional airport in Louisiana when the announcement blared: “Due to weather in Atlanta, your scheduled flight will not be disembarking for 15 minutes.” Dismayed by the news, we exchanged worried lo

(Banner Engineering: Minneapolis) -- Banner Engineering Corp., manufacturer of the most complete, integrated, and advanced line of photo eyes, sensors, wireless sensors, vision sensors, vision lighting, machine safety, and indicator lights, has introduced the