3D Printing Tiny Parts for Big Impact
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Let’s Keep Meetings Virtual After Covid
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.
Artisan Robots With AI Smarts Will Juggle Tasks, Choose Tools, Mix and Match Recipes, and Order Materials
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.
Digital Supply-Chain Maturity Assessment Sets Stage for Optimizing Performance
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.
With Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup, the EV Transition Shifts Into High Gear
When President Joe Biden took Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup for a test drive in Dearborn, Michigan, in May 2021, the ev
Why Our Approach to Artificial Intelligence Needs a Reboot
Do you see the limitations and over-hyped expectations of today’s approach to artificial intelligence (AI)?
What Leaders Can Learn From Crazy Horse, Part 2
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.
For Three-Time Baldrige Winner, Exponential Growth Starts With People, Safety
In 2020, MESA, a small business in Oklahoma, became to date the first and only three-time Baldrige Award recipient.
Tiny Particles Power Chemical Reactions
First published June 7, 2021, on MIT News.
Truly and Virtually Inspiring: The First Virtual Quest for Excellence Conference
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