Our Return to Work Initiative: Respond, Return, and Reimagine
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When Intelex developed its return-to-work program, we decided the best approach would be a phased one.
Seven Manufacturing Digitization Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robots, 3D printing, the internet of things (IoT)... there’s a whole world of advanced manufacturing technology and innovation just waiting for small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) that want to step up their digital game.
‘Control Charts! They Make the Blind Hear and the Deaf See!’
“With data from an epidemic there is no question of whether a change has occurred. Change is everywhere. The question is whether we are getting better or worse.
MIT, NIST Create First Room-Temp ‘Magnon Switch’ With Industrially Useful Properties
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new way to make switches inside a computer’s processing chips, enabling them to use less energy and radiate les
How to Increase the Value of Your Supplier Audits
A manufacturer’s ability to maintain high-quality products and regulatory compliance depends largely on its suppliers’ own quality-related activities.
Crashing U.S. Auto Sales: Can the Industry Recover?
While sales of products like toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and even home appliances have skyrocketed during the coronavir
The Trap of Getting Back to Normal During the Pandemic
As a vast number of companies rush to reopen, they’re falling into the trap of “getting back to normal.” They don’t realize that we’re heading into a period of waves of restrictions, due to many states reopening too soon.
The Digital Dilemma
Throughout human history we’ve constantly sought out tools and capital to make us more productive. From the formation of basic tools to assist in farming to real cultivation and shaping of the land for greater yields, humankind learned to grow food.
MTBF of a Human
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Image: Henry Burrows
‘What’s the MTBF of a human?” A bit of a strange question I ask in my Reliability 101 course. Why ask such a weird question? I’ll tell you why. Because MTBF is the worst, most confusing, crappy metric used in the reliability discipline.
Expanded Tables for the Analysis of Mean Moving Ranges
In May 2019, James Beagle and I published an article that contained tables for the analysis of mean moving ranges or ANOMmR (pronounced a-nom-m-r). By request of those using this technique, I have expanded these tables. This article contains these expanded tables and