Are You Ready for the Hybrid Workplace?
The future of work is hybrid. In the post-pandemic world, many companies will embrace the lessons learned from more than a year of telecommuting and not fully return to the office.
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Food Processing: Selecting a Conveyor to Minimize Dust Explosion Risk
On conveyor systems in the food processing industry, some powdered and bulk solid materials such as grains, sugar, and creamer are ignition-sensitive in specific concentrations, particularly when exposed to static electricity discharge.
Quality Professionals Need Better Tools to Handle Their Expanded Duties
Quality professionals no longer focus solely on product or service quality.
Why Some People Drop the Ball and What to Do About It
From time to time, everyone misses a deadline, forgets an obligation, or fails to meet a commitment. We’re human, and it happens. For most of us, failure is followed by an immediate effort to right the situation.
Threat Models for Differential Privacy
It’s not so simple to deploy a practical system that satisfies differential privacy.
How to Prioritize Your Team’s Work and Improve Focus
A consistent and regularly scheduled prioritization process helps eliminate distractions and can focus your efforts on the most meaningful projects. Some processes are formal, while others are simply frequent conversations about priorities.
X-ray Tomography Lets Researchers Watch Solid-State Batteries Charge, Discharge
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Solid-state batteries are charged and discharged in custom-made hardware designed at Georgia Tech. A smaller, modified version of the cell shown here was used to image these materials during cycling.
Using X-ray tomography, a research team has observed the internal evolution of the materials inside solid-state lithium batteries as they were charged and discharged.
Cost of Quality: What Is It, and Why Is It Important?
The concept of cost of quality (COQ) has been around for decades, but applying it to business is difficult. The adage “quality is free” (coined by Philip B.
Faces of Industry 4.0, Part 1
One of the technologies driving Industry 4.0 is artificial intelligence (AI), and AI is enabling massive change in manufacturing. It is also revolutionizing the smart manufacturing supply chain as well.
Detecting Abnormal Cyber Behavior Before a Cyberattack
The promise of advanced manufacturing technologies—also known as smart factories or Industry 4.0—is that by networking our machines, computers, sensors, and systems, we will (among other things) enable automation, improve safety, and ultimately become more productive