Early one morning I was in my side yard and walked up on a huge elaborate spider web complete with its designer-tenant. As I approached the artwork, the spider began to vibrate the web sending glistening dewdrops everywhere.
In July of 2008, I stepped out of an engineering leadership role and into an operational role. The transition was exciting and overwhelming.
When a luxury yacht is ordered by someone high on the world’s who’s-who list, shipbuilders pay special attention.
(CSCMP: Lombard, IL) -- The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) has released its new online Resource Directory which includes a comprehensive section on global supply chain management consultants and a listing of their services.
(E Instruments: Langhorne, PA) -- The MicroCal P100 is a compact, rugged, reliable, and very accurate pressure calibrator making it a great choice for industrial applications.
(DMSC Inc.: Arlington, TX) -- To introduce the new Dimensional Measuring Inspection Standard (DMIS 5.2) to the world’s metrology community, the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) is offering a special discount of 30 percent off for both CDs and downloads of the standard.
(AME: Arlington Heights, IL) -- From the combined efforts of the members of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) comes the “Visual Workplace - Visual Thinking” seminar on March 22 in Tucson, Arizona, at the Hilton Tucson East hotel, 9 a.m.
I was leaving my last class for the day when I saw my friend, Ken Frankel, working out in the hallway with one of those pistol-grip label makers. I stopped and asked what he was doing.
Today’s challenges in the turbine industry to meet the ever growing requirement to manufacture parts faster, on schedule, and at reduced costs, have made it apparent to industry experts that traditional inspection methods are too slow and inadequate to achieve the r
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- In 1982, W. Edwards Deming wrote Out of the Crisis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982).