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Which KPIs Prove Your Maintenance Plan Is Working?

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You finished the plan, you executed the work, and you know your team delivered results. But when it’s time to prove your budget request or show value to leadership, you struggle to give clear proof.

How to Reverse Engineer Classic Car Parts

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Timeless design, meticulous craftsmanship, and connection to the past: There are many reasons why classic cars are enduringly popular. Reverse engineering has brought them within reach of more people than ever before.

Don’t Shake Before You Listen

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Vibration-related failures in aerospace involve satellites, launch vehicles, and aircraft components that are expensive to replace.

How Komatsu Measures Giant Steel Components With Surgical Precision

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Ultralarge hydraulic excavators for international open-pit mining are the core specialty of Komatsu Germany GmbH—Mining Division.

From Play to Possibility

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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.

Capability and the Pooled Variance Statistic

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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.

5 Meeting Rules to Regain a Full Workday Each Week

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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.

Robots Spare Warehouse Workers the Heavy Lifting

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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.

Do You Really Need Training?

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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.

Science-Backed Standards Keep You Safer in the Skies

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NIST researcher Jack Glover holds a test object for millimeter-wave imaging systems—scanners that are used to check passengers in many airport security lines.

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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.

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