According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year about 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from food-borne diseases.

The EU’s co-funded COMET project, which seeks to improve the efficiency of European industrial manufacturing, is creating a revolutionary solution that enables robots to perform high-end machining.

The expression “beauty’s only skin-deep” has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface.

I was recently in a local big-box retail store. My family had run another errand, and I was waiting for them inside the entrance of the store. It was a busy Saturday afternoon, and it was raining very hard outside.

The stench rising off the dead bodies was overpowering. It was so thick you could taste it. Sandy pulled a dust-mask respirator over his face, but the smell still penetrated.

I was listening to Alan Robinson present recently at the Lean Systems Summit about the power of “small ideas.” Alan wondered aloud why so many organizations

“Please tell me how to map this chamber!” This is a plea we hear at every Vaisala current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) seminar.

In order to maximize profitability while complying with government regulations regarding net package contents, food manufacturers and packagers must achieve an optimal balance.

Few would argue with the proposition that a firm’s well-being depends upon its ability to innovate.

The cover of Fortune magazine popped off the newsstand shelf last week [Aug. 15, 2011] with the article, “What Happened at Pfizer: The Inside Story of Revenge, Betrayal, and Power at the Top of the World’s Largest Drug Company.”