Celebrating Our Frontline Scapegoats
With Labor Day coming around, here’s an article to celebrate the folks who usually get blamed for the quality problems.
Becoming a Net Exporter of Talent
Want to build your team? Get rid of the people who are on it. I don’t mean go about firing people in a flurry. Become what I call a “net exporter of talent.”
How Bott Group Cut Days From Vehicle Fit-Outs With 3D Scanning
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The Bott Group speeds up its 3D measurement processes for in-vehicle fittings thanks to the HandySCAN 3D|MAX Series
The Bott Group designs vehicle and operating equipment as well as workplace systems.
The New Irreplaceables
Let’s start with the argument every aspiring leader loves to have, even if they don’t say it out loud: Specialist or generalist? Depth or breadth? That’s the fork in the road every ambitious leader eventually hits.
Advertising’s Future
I recently needed to have a hot water expansion tank installed in my house. The first plumber who came to mind is widely advertised on local radio.
5K Kaizen
I took a walk-jog this morning, something I’ve been doing pretty regularly since early June. Some days are better than others, and today started out sluggish.
Collaboration Reveals How Light Unlocks Chemistry of Nickel Catalyst
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Lakshmy Kannadi Valloli of Brookhaven Lab’s Chemistry Division performing experiments at Brookhaven’s Laser Electron Accelerator Facility. These experiments created a solvent radical and followed the chemistry as it produced a previously unknown intermediate form of a nickel-based catalyst.
Ateam of scientists across several U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories has unraveled how light and a previously unknown form of certain nickel-based catalysts together unlock and preserve reactivity.
Pharmaceutical Serialization
Pharmaceutical serialization practices are on the rise and have progressively become a worldwide standard as a result of stringent regulations in various of markets, including the United States, European Union, China, and Argentina.
Walk-Through Screening System Enhances Security at Airports Nationwide
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Lincoln Laboratory's microwave imaging technology was licensed by Liberty Defense, which developed the HEXWAVE security screening system seen here.
A new security screener that people can simply walk past may soon be coming to an airport near you. Last year, U.S. airports nationwide began adopting HEXWAVE, a commercialized system based on microwave imaging technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Different Answers to a Common Question
The engineer came into the statistician’s office and asked, “How can I compare a couple of averages? I have 50 values from each machine and want to compare the machines.”