A plant manager, an ISO auditor, and a soccer mom all walk into a bar. The bartender asks the manager, “What’s your No.

In a recent blog post, “Assessing Variability for Quality Improvement,” I showed how measuring variability is as important as measuring

As a senior sales officer charged with effecting business turnarounds for bankrupt private and pre-IPO companies, I witnessed firsthand the importance of core values.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prototype wireless sensor capable of detecting trace amounts of a key ingredient found in many explosives.

(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- If a manager wants her staff to perform at its best, then she needs to become the best manager she can be: someone who can ignite employees’ passion for their jobs, enabling them to execute their duties at a high level whether the manager is there or not.

Today, solid rockets dominate most military applications because they take up relatively little space, can be launched on a moment’s notice, and offer a high thrust-to-weight ratio.

A selection of center-page spreads from ISO Focus+, the magazine of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), filled with colorful graphic art conveying the benefits of international standards, provides the theme for the ISO 2012 calendar.

Oh no, it’s happened again! Why do I do this to myself time and again? Do I need to seek help, professional assistance of a psychological nature? I must stop doing this; it’s is as if I don’t have control over myself. It’s a habit.

A team of university researchers, aided by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have succeeded in integrating a new, highly efficient piezoelectric material into a silicon microelectromechanical system (MEMS).

Ask any metrologist, and you’ll likely get quite a diatribe about the challenge of making a good measurement of humidity.