When the Japanese word kaizen entered the language of quality improvement via Masaaki Imai’s seminal book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success, (McGra

Most of us, I’m confident, have some rather significant events in our lives that bring joy and excitement. It could be marriage, the birth of a child, perhaps a first grandchild, a new home, or retirement.

Duke University electrical engineers have developed a man-made material that they say literally allows them to manipulate light at will.

DNA, a molecule famous for storing the genetic blueprints for all living things, can do other things as well.

First, the introduction. This post was earnestly written by my friend, Jeff Fuchs.

From the minute I arrived on site, I knew that this would be a Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference unlike any other. First of all, it was in Phoenix… in July.

There has been a lot of press in recent years about the importance of the “learning organization.” While many authors have explored the idea of a learning organization from the perspective of how learning can be enabled and shared, the economic impact of learning,

Finally, the medical industry is putting aside its “We’re medicine; we’re different” mindset and taking a more practical look at quality improvement. Bravo!

More than ever, businesses need ways to improve their operations to better gain, serve, and retain customers while reducing costs and improving margins.

In part one we found that the skewness and kurtosis parameters characterize the tails of a probability model rather than the central portion, and that because o