What’s With These Torpedo Bats?
The 2025 Major League Baseball season certainly started with a bang—at least for the New York Yankees.
The 2025 Major League Baseball season certainly started with a bang—at least for the New York Yankees.
When artificial intelligence burst into mainstream business consciousness, the narrative was compelling: Intelligent machines would handle routine tasks, freeing humans for higher-level creative and strategic work.
The corrective and preventive action (CAPA) process is one of the most important elements within a medtech company’s quality management system (QMS).
ORNL researchers have found a way to double the tensile strength of carbon-fiber composites by reinforcing the material with a thin layer of PAN nanofibers. A human hair is approximately 100 times wider than one of these fibers.
Stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, carbon fiber is a staple in aerospace and high-performance vehicles. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to make it even stronger.
Many companies are still clinging to paper-based and unconnected electronic processes, despite the clear disadvantages.
For quality heads, compliance officers, auditors, and engineering leaders, audits have been a time-consuming, resource-intensive process, yet necessary to build resilient operations, prevent costly failures, and maintain competitive advantage.
In this article I’m exploring the need for ethics in systems thinking using the ideas of Heinz von Foerster and Russell Ackoff. The two come from different traditions within systems thinking.
As companies and government agencies push forward with return-to-office (RTO) mandates, they risk exacerbating a workplace problem that many have failed to address adequately: gender discrimination.
Streamlining the transition from scan-to-CAD involves selecting the right tool set for reverse engineering.
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