Do You ‘Buy American?’ Why?
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Manufacturers in many sectors are innovating to make high-quality products with less labor.
Measuring Moon Dust for NASA
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Moon dust was formed by billions of years of meteor impacts that pulverized the rocks and melted them into tiny shards of glass.
What Management Advice Do You Rely on Most, and Why?
When successful entrepreneurs speak, it is wise to listen. Here are 11 responses from 11 successful entrepreneurs who were asked, “What one piece of management advice do you rely on most, and why?”
The Three Gates
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Answer three ancient questions before you speak.
Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
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Like a TV test pattern, nothing changes if nothing changes
Remembering the Seabees
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High-res 3D scan allows the CEC/Seabee Historical Foundation to render any size monument, from table-top size up to full-scale
New CDER Guidance Could Affect Quality Management Efforts
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There are more than a dozen CDER guidances that pharmaceutical manufacturers should keep an eye on.
Cartwheels
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Too often, rather than rethinking the cause of the waste, we automate around it.
Most often when we think of a wheel, it’s in the context of transportation, one of the more obvious and ever-present of the 7 wastes in lean. In fact, the first likely use of a wheel and axle was not for transport but for processing—actual work.
How Taguchi Designs Differ From Factorial Designs
Genichi Taguchi is famous for his pioneering methods of robust quality engineering. One of the major contributions that he made to quality improvement methods is Taguchi designs.