(DigiLEAN: Sandnes, Norway) DigiLEAN AS has beed awarded the contract from Kavli to deliver digital visual-management performance dashboards.

(AMETEK: Keene, NH) -- AMETEK Precitech, your global leader in precision diamond turning products, introduces the new Freeform X single point, diamond turning machine.

The world’s leading standards bodies have issued a joint declaration calling on all countries to recognize, support and adopt international standards in order to contribute directly to the three pillars of the Italian

Shigeo Shingo was able to summarize entire concepts in single phrases, such as “paint parts, not air.” This meant that paint which misses parts in a spray booth constitutes wasted material and also an environmental aspect.

Many organizations feel the need to be leaner, faster, stronger, more adaptable, and more profitable. The right tool set to get them to that outcome may not be intuitive or singular.

(Drishti: Mountain View: CA) -- New data released today from a survey conducted by

There are many endangered industries today, and publishing is certainly among them.

It seems like yesterday that I walked into 1425 Vista Way in Red Bluff, California, to begin what I thought was a part-time data-entry job that was supposed to last just a few weeks.

Editor’s note: The following is from a transcript of a forgotten speech given in Tokyo in 1978 by W. Edwards Deming for the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE). Because the original was a poor photocopy, there are small portions of text that could not be transcribed.

In publishing, anniversary issues sit in the ambiguous space between news and marketing. News because, at 40 years and counting, it’s not every magazine that makes it to middle age in these times.