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Harry Powell
In previous posts I’ve shared resources to help you educate your leaders in data literacy, but beyond knowledge, this also requires thinking differently. We need to get thinking about our thinking.
Helping leaders get their heads around thinking styles can be a challenge. Many of us spend most of…
Dileep Thatte
In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that, every year, June 7 would be celebrated as World Food Safety Day. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations decided to jointly facilitate the observance.
The…
William A. Levinson
Part one of this article showed that it is possible, by means of a Visual Basic for Applications program in Microsoft Excel, to calculate the fraction of in-specification product that is rejected by a non-capable gage, as well as the fraction of nonconforming product that is accepted. This…
Tom Siegfried, Knowable Magazine
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.
From the earliest days of their evolution, guts and brains have been the best of friends.
It’s a mutually beneficial relationship. Guts prepare nourishment for delivery to the brain. And brains guide the behaviors needed to fill the gut…
Quality Digest
(Mahr Inc.: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Inc., a global manufacturer of precision measurement equipment used for dimensional metrology, has introduced the new Millimar C 1202, a full feature, configurable, low-cost, digital length evaluation amplifier for high-precision measurements in the inspection or…
William A. Levinson
IATF 16949:2016 clause 7.1.5.1.1 requires measurement systems analysis (MSA) to quantify gage and instrument variation. The deliverables of the generally accepted procedure are the repeatability or equipment variation, and the reproducibility or appraiser variation. The Automotive Industry Action…
Saligrama Agnihothri
Health-tracking devices and apps are becoming part of everyday life. More than 300,000 mobile phone applications claim to help with managing diverse personal health issues, from monitoring blood glucose levels to conceiving a child.
But so far the potential for health-tracking apps to improve…
Gleb Tsipursky
Due to strong employee resistance and turnover, Google recently backtracked from its plan to force all employees to return to the office and allowed many to work remotely. Amazon also backtracked on its plans to have a fully office-centric culture and allowed employees to have a hybrid schedule.…
M. Mitchell Waldrop, Knowable Magazine
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.
If the cascading upheavals of the past year have done nothing else, they’ve spurred widespread calls for reform and renewal in just about every institution we have.
A mishandled public-health response to the Covid-19 pandemic, an economic…
James daSilva
There was a Twitter thread recently from an early, longtime Facebook executive, Dan Rose. You might have missed it. That’s OK—scrolling Twitter is rarely the best use of our time.
In these tweets, Rose argued for the greatness of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership, especially…
Quality Digest
(Prima Power Laserdyne: Brooklyn Park, MN) -- Early users asked for it—Prima Power Laserdyne made it happen—the renewal of the LASERDYNE 890 multi-axis laser processing system. This is an all-new LASERDYNE 890 system with powerful and efficient fiber laser, the latest highly flexible BeamDirector,…
Emily Newton
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are harmful chemical compounds produced as a byproduct of normal boiler function. The EPA regulates them due to the damage they can cause to humans and the environment.
Low-NOx boilers, outfitted with special components that reduce nitrogen oxides, are essential for…
Dawn Bailey
The spirit of service—for a small clinic started in 1913 to provide free care to Los Angeles (LA)—lives today in the servant-leader aspirations of 2019 Baldrige Award recipient Adventist Health White Memorial (AHWM), a 353-bed, safety-net hospital.
The community of two million people that AHWM…
Manfred Kets de Vries
Leonard, the chairman of a global consumer goods company, was wondering what to do with the two co-CEOs running the firm. Although it had seemed a great idea to have two individuals at the helm, this arrangement had led to conflicts, stalled initiatives, and an overall lack of direction. Some of…
(IDS: Woburn, MA) -- Camera manufacturer IDS Imaging Development Systems shows that the use of industrial-grade 3D technology does not have to be expensive.
The Ensenso S 3D camera is particularly suitable for 3D applications that require budget-friendly, easy-to-integrate and industrial-grade…
Ryan E. Day
It is estimated that in 2021, the average person watches more than 100 minutes of online video every day. But is that relevant to your B2B marketing efforts?
“The vast bulk of this video consumption is marketing content,” says Maury Rogow, CEO of Rip Media Group and CMO of TheVideoBot. “Big-budget…
Eliot Dratch
If your manufacturing company develops a problem along the way with one of your processes, how do you resolve it? While the shortcut option is to simply patch up the symptoms of whatever that problem may be, the long-term solution is to perform a root cause and corrective action (RCCA) process.
By…
Clare Naden
Travel and tourism took a beating during the Covid-19 pandemic, with borders closed, airlines grounded, and many establishments shut for months. Now as the industry attempts to recover in this new context, constantly changing rules and regulations are making it a far-from-simple task. What’s more,…
Exemplar Global
(Exemplar Global: Milwaukee) -- Just like aviation flight simulators, the Audit Simulator provides opportunities to audit without risk. Using the simulator, trainee auditors have access to standards and/or checklists, evaluate evidence and comments, then make decisions and give their review on the…
John Preston
‘This government is obsessed with skilling up our population,” said Boris Johnson in his recent speech on “leveling up.” There’s still a fair amount of uncertainty about exactly what the United Kingdom prime minister’s plan to level up the regions will involve, but manufacturing and skills seem…
Dave Pierson
I’ve heard additive manufacturing is key to driving innovation in our industry, but how does it really deliver value? We’ve looked at some additive manufacturing machines, but how can we justify the expense when we’re trying to eliminate our capital expenditures? Is additive manufacturing worth the…
(ANCA: Wixom, MI) -- As the cutting tool industry moves towards more complex geometries and away from standard tools, manufacturers are needing to find new solutions. Often referenced as special tools, ANCA will showcase the technology, software and automation at EMO Milano 2021 that enables…
(DMSC: Rochester, NY) -- PDES is pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC). Both organizations seek to improve the ways tools work together to improve standards development, analysis, and define applications of…
Sébastien Breteau
Major global events of the past five years have sparked seismic shock waves in global supply chains, relocating where businesses manufacture and source their products. Whether facing rising labor costs in China, new tariffs in the U.S.-China trade war, or cataclysmic shutdowns amid the Covid-19…
Terry Onica, Cathy Fisher
Has the automotive industry learned its lesson about supply chain disruptions? Or will delivery performance continue to suffer with every new disruption?
In addition to constant disruption, auto industry business models are rapidly transforming. Consumers are buying vehicles online. The transition…
