Every year, Amy B., a buyer for a large retail chain store, hosts an Easter egg decorating team-building party where she and a bunch of her suppliers spend an entire afternoon coloring and bedazzling boiled eggs.

(Swiss Steel Group: Lucerne, Switzerland) -- Swiss Steel Group presents UGIMA-X, the third generation of high-machinability stainless steels, delivering significant advancements in machining efficiency, tool life, and pr

Machinists working strictly in metalworking shops don’t have many occasions to gage the thickness of soft materials.

(MIT Sloan Management Review: Cambridge, MA) -- Flawed assumptions about what motivates people to work can lead to counterproduc

The Man of La Mancha never got to the unreachable goal—and if you’re being judged by overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), then your manager may also be dreaming an impossible dream. This column will look at problems associated with the use of OEE values.

My story begins with Hurricane Milton, one of two tragic hurricanes to hit the west coast of Florida last year. Milton went right over Sarasota, where I live part of the year. It was a devastating storm; tree and plant debris still remain on the sides of many roads.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- As part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is responsible for harmonizing international and national documentary standards with those

(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a global product life cycle management consulting and research firm, has announced a free educational webinar, “The What and Why of Digital Threads and Twins—A Report from the Field.” The

By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have found a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material.

(Epigap OSA Photonics: Berlin) -- EPIGAP OSA Photonics, a global manufacturer of custom and standard LEDs and photodetectors, has introduced high-power ultraviolet (UV) LEDs in surface-mount packages that operate from 225 nm