(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- As a society, we tend to reward problem solvers rather than those who prevent problems at their source.

(Elcometer: Manchester, UK) -- As part of its continuing growth strategy Elcometer, a leader in equipment for the corrosion-inspection industry, has launched a comprehensive range of ultrasonic thickness gauges and flaw detectors.

During the early 2000s, people discovered how great pomegranate juice is. It’s filled with antioxidants that help us avoid colds and other maladies. Well, no one likes to be sick, so people started buying the juice by the case. Sure enough, they felt healthier.

(AMT: McLean, VA) -- December 2011 U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $519.98 million according to The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S.

(nCode: Southfield, MI) -- nCode, the leading brand of durability, test, and analysis products offered by HBM, introduces with version 8 of its software suite significant new technologies for both physical test and computer-aided engineering (CAE) durability.

(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Based on the work at the Stanford University’ Institute of Design and its Environments Collaborative Initiative, Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative C

I was three or four jokes into my routine, when I realized that one of the troublemakers my client warned me about was sitting dead center in the front row.

My monthly newsletter’s theme is “Integrating Lean and Quality.” I call it this because there seems to be somewhat of a common understanding and acceptance that lean and quality have no relationship to each other.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- More than half of the engineers polled in a recent survey from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) said the amount of studying needed to succeed and maintain high grades in science and math were the primary challenges they f

For one Connecticut manufacturer of close-tolerance, precision metal parts, a nearly 20-year commitment to lean manufacturing has naturally evolved into using self-directed work teams for the past two years to set the ambitious objectives of 100-percent on-time deliv