‘Lean Lab’ Approach Reduces Spending and Increases Productivity
When MIT announced in March 2020 that most research labs on campus would need to ramp down to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, Canan Dagdeviren’s lab was ready.
Five Hard-Learned Lessons Amid the Covid-19 Catastrophe
If there’s one thing the global business community is learning from the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s the outright imperative for companies to be agile “from top to bottom.” This lesson continues to ebb, flow, and unfold daily, wreaking having on bottom lines in every corn
What Manufacturers Can Learn From the Tech Sector’s Appropriation of Lean Thinking
When most people think of lean processes, they believe the goal is to optimize things in a step-by-step approach. The result that companies using lean methods can look forward to is incremental improvements brought about by the elimination of waste.
Helping Laser Scanners Measure Up
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a novel, accurate, easy-to-operate, time- and labor-saving way to provide calibrated scale-bar standards for testing the performance of terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) systems.
Back to Work: How to Strategically Reboard Your Workforce
Crossing the street or stepping backward when you encounter another person has already become a habit, as has a routine elbow bump, instead of a handshake.
How to Prevent Failure When Shifting to Working From Home
So many companies are shifting their employees to working from home to address the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Yet they’re not considering the potential quality disasters that can occur as a result of this transition.
Big Tech Is Rewiring Healthcare in the Platform Revolution
The digitization of patient data and the adoption of cloud-based healthcare management systems have created efficiencies and new business models across the value chain.
Contaminated Water Source At a Nuclear Power Plant Is a ‘Problem-Solved’ Using 3D Laser Scanning
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Nuclear power has long been a clean, dependable source of energy throughout the world. However, as power plants age, concerns grow about their continued reliability.
Coronavirus and Supply Chain Disruption: What Firms Can Learn
Long stretches of empty supermarket shelves and shortages of essential supplies are only the visible impacts to consumers of the global supply-chain disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.