Reliability Engineering Training Seminar Slated for August
ReliaSoft’s “Master the Subject, Master the Tools” seminar will be held Aug. 9-13 in San Diego.
Online Database Puts Health Care Quality in Consumers’ Hands
Consumers who want to give their health care providers a “check up” can easily do so with a new resource accessible in minutes.New APQC Team Offers Benchmarking Services
Alvarez & Marsal and the American Productivity and Quality Center recently announced the formation of a collaborative performance improvement effort.
MetricStream Partners With Documentum
A new partnership between MetricStream and Documentum will integrate two of the companies’ most popular software sets.
Flood of Recalls Might Be Due to Poor Economy
Economists and analysts speculate that a recent rash of recalled high technology products might be due to the poor economy.
Newly Developed Nanodiode Is One of Smallest Devices Ever Made
GE recently announced the development of the world’s best performing diode built from a carbon nanotube, a device the 
company claims is the smallest functioning tool ever
Research Links Environment and Productivity
Preliminary findings from a landmark study on the impact of workstations on employee productivity show clear associations between performance and environmental con
The Standard Answer
We all love exceptions. They afford us unfettered permission to break the rules. They are the vehicles we use to get around “things”—whatever those things happen to be.
Lean Management Systems Revisited
Lean means doing the most with what you have. It’s efficiency and intelligence. In the modern economy, lean is a fact of life.
TapRooT Software Now Available
It took upward of two years, but System Improvements Inc.