NIST: Blockchain Provides Security, Traceability for Smart Manufacturing
Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needed a way to secure smart manufacturing systems using the
Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needed a way to secure smart manufacturing systems using the
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On Quality Digest Live we talk with Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation about the impact of automation on manufacturers and the workforce. Don't forget, theAutomate show is coming up: April 08-11, 2019 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
All day every day, throughout the United States, people push buttons—on coffee makers, TV remote controls, and even social media posts they “like.” For more than seven years, I’ve been trying to
I went to a meeting about innovation recently with a former client, and a discussion about digital transformation broke out. It was both interesting and strange.
In the 1999 film Office Space, a dark comedy about the mundane conventionality of work, disgruntled software engineer Peter Gibbons tells his new love interest, Joanna, that he hates his job and doesn’t want to go anymore.
Introducing a small amount of strain into crystalline materials, such as diamond or silicon, can produce significant changes in their properties, researchers have found. The mechanical strain is represented here as a deformation in the diamond's shape. Image: Chelsea Turner, MIT
Applying just a bit of strain to a piece of semiconductor or other crystalline material can deform the orderly arrangement of atoms in its structure enough to cause dramatic changes in its properties, such as the way it conducts electricity, transmits light, or condu
Imagine there was a store where there were no prices on items, and you never knew what you’d pay until you’d picked out your purchases and were leaving the shop. You might be skeptical that the store would have any incentive to offer reasonable prices.
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Harness your company’s incumben
The Pareto principle calls for focus on the vital few rather than the trivial many.
In the past, I’ve written about some of the myths of journey mapping. One of those myths is: Without a digital mapping platform, I can’t even begin to map.
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