What’s the Prognosis? NIST report details new method for breakdown-free production
Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:19
In today’s increasingly complex manufacturing operations, Murphy’s Law is only an unexpected hiccup away—anything from a data error to an errant vibration to a dulled cutting tool can undermine production. In a future with fully effective sensing… NIST’s Method to Spot Quantum Dots Could Help Create Nanophotonic Devices The trick is in finding the dots
Wed, 09/09/2015 - 16:00
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Life may be as unpredictable as a box of chocolates, but ideally, you always know what you’re going to get from a quantum dot. A quantum dot should produce one, and only one, photon—the smallest constituent of light—each… Baldrige Tests Positive for Superior Patient Experience A systems approach to excellence ‘as the patient sees it’
Wed, 08/26/2015 - 10:01
A newly released study comparing 34 U.S. healthcare organizations that received the Baldrige National Quality Award with their 153 geographically closest competitors found that the Baldrige Award recipients matched or exceeded their competitors’… Baldrige Helps Health Care Organizations Provide Superior Patient Experience Award recipients match or exceed competitors’ measures of healthcare quality
Mon, 08/10/2015 - 10:24
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The newly released study, “Healthcare Performance Excellence: A Comparison of Baldrige Award Recipients and Competitors,” comparing 34 U.S. healthcare organizations that received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality… Nonprofit for Veterans Uses Baldrige Framework New case study reveals innovative improvement strategies for governmental organizations
Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:32
(NIST: Gaithersberg, MD) -- Depicting how an innovative government organization might use the Baldrige Excellence Framework , the 2015 Baldrige Case Study: The Casey Comprehensive Care Center for Veterans represents a fictitious organization within… A Million Pounds of Accuracy Restoring the largest deadweight machine in the world
Wed, 07/29/2015 - 17:12
Restoration is well underway for NIST’s 4.45-million newton (equivalent to 1 million pounds-force) deadweight machine, the largest in the world. The three-story-tall deadweight, comprising a stack of stainless-steel discs weighing about 50,000… The Incredible Shrinking ESR Machine New probe to offer a broad range of applications
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 16:27
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large machines down to a pinpoint-precision probe.
This electron spin resonance probe… Recruiting the Next Generation on Manufacturing Day Anchoring a small town, Detroit Tool & Engineering had a big problem
Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:51
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Lebanon, Missouri’s population is a few hundred people more than 14,000. To put that number in perspective, 1,120,000 people ride the commuter train on the average New York weekday. In Lebanon, people welcome you with… Ultra-Stable JILA Microscopy Technique Tracks Tiny Objects for Hours A useful tool for making things on the single-nanometer scale
Tue, 07/14/2015 - 16:48
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- JILA researchers have designed a microscope instrument so stable that it can accurately measure the 3D movement of individual molecules over many hours—hundreds of times longer than the current limit measured in seconds… Twenty-Six Organizations Apply for 2015 Baldrige Award This is the first award process using the simpler eligibility requirements announced in 2014
Wed, 06/17/2015 - 11:21
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Recognizing that performance excellence and innovation are the key ingredients in a recipe for success, 26 top-level organizations are vying to be honored as the “top chefs” in the nation by applying for the 2015 Malcolm…