Failure of a machine in a factory can shut it down. Lost production can cost millions of dollars per day. Component failures can devastate factories, power plants, and battlefield equipment.

The premise for the NIST MEP Digital Supply-Chain Network project is familiar to MEP centers—many small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) are often not ready for Industry 4.0 and don’t know how to implement it.

When President Joe Biden took Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup for a test drive in Dearborn, Michigan, in May 2021, the ev

Do you see the limitations and over-hyped expectations of today’s approach to artificial intelligence (AI)?

When you played cowboys and Indians as a kid, did you want to be the cowboy or the Indian? I wanted to be the Indian. All the ones I saw in comic books had super-cool moccasins and could move around with their bow and arrows without making a sound.

In 2020, MESA, a small business in Oklahoma, became to date the first and only three-time Baldrige Award recipient.

First published June 7, 2021, on MIT News.

Each year after the Quest for Excellence Conference, I sift through my notes and try to identify themes I have heard in the presentations of the new 

In an essay titled “The end of artefacts,” Nobel laureate and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fellow

We live in an era of statue removal. Meanwhile the largest mountain carving in the world is under construction in the Black Hills of South Dakota just 17 miles from Mount Rushmore. The final carving will be 640 feet long and more than 50 stories high.