As the holiday season is left behind, many manufacturing leaders find a moment to step back from year-end deadlines to reflect on the bigger picture and look ahead.

Performance indexes use the global standard deviation statistic to describe the past. Capability indexes use a within-subgroup measure of dispersion to characterize the process potential. However, some within-subgroup measures are better than others.

Most leaders you meet are losing almost a full workday every week to meetings that go nowhere. Same people. Same topics. Same problems. No real movement.

There are some jobs human bodies just weren’t meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling task—and a big reason warehouse injury rates are more than twice the national average.

Something goes sideways at work—missed deadlines, bad customer feedback, you name it—and the first suggestion is, “We need training!” Sound familiar? It’s like reaching for a Band-Aid when what you really need is a lifestyle change.

If you’ve flown in the U.S. in recent years, you’re probably familiar with the airport security experience of entering a booth, raising your hands above your head, and having a machine check your body. That machine is called a millimeter wave scanner.

Traditional styles of lecturing and imparting information can be ineffective in terms of student engagement and triggering deeper learning.

Increasingly, inspectors for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will evaluate your CMMS provider’s security controls—not just your internal procedures.

In today’s energy sector, regulatory complexity isn’t a temporary headache—it’s the new normal.

The digitalization of society during the last decade has created many opportunities for businesses and organizations.