(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- A wrench or a screwdriver of a single size is useful for some jobs, but for a more complicated project, you need a set of tools of different sizes.

The recession has been an extremely disruptive event for many organizations.

Finally, the long and arduous process that appears to be a requisite phase in the development of an international quality management system standard appears to be nearing an end.

Editor's note: In this first in a series of articles on workplace visuality, Gwendolyn Galsworth, Ph.D., author of

While reading an issue of Quality Digest Daily, I came across an article by Kenneth Levine and Peter Sherman titled, “Ten Simple Principles for Treat

An article titled “Sharp Drop in Firefighter Fatalities in 2009” appeared in a safety trade journal recently. For the first time in three years, it said, on-the-job firefighter fatalities dropped below 100.

The world admires the United States for our education system. Students from China, India, Russia, and a host of other countries fill our colleges and universities.

On July 8, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an initiative “… to evaluate industry’s compliance and understanding of Part 11 in light of the enforcement discretion described in the August 2003 Guidance for Industry Part 11, Electronic Records; Electro

(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Billerica, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has launched the Niton XL2 GOLDD Series hand-held X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer.

In sawmills, optimization is an in-process procedure that maximizes output of the highest-value board size and quality from the limited and environmentally valuable input of randomly shaped logs.