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MIT News
In today’s manufacturing plants, the division of labor between humans and robots is quite clear: Large, automated robots are typically cordoned off in metal cages, manipulating heavy machinery and performing repetitive tasks, while humans work in less hazardous areas on jobs requiring finer detail…
IBM
The Charleston Police Department in South Carolina is working with IBM to assist the city’s more than 400 police officers to more accurately evaluate and forecast crime patterns. The department is using predictive analytics software to better allocate its resources and identify criminal hot spots…
Four-dimensional computed tomography, or 4-D CT, is the latest development in the realm of industrial X-ray inspection for the nondestructive testing industry. In the simplest of terms, 4-D CT is a 3-D X-ray computed tomography process that captures movement over a period of time.
Like most other…
Stewart Anderson
The production and provision of any product or service requires many activities to be performed. The pattern of activities that a firm adopts to create and deliver value to customers is commonly called the value chain (or value stream). A key issue in competitive strategy is how to organize a value…
Akhilesh Gulati
An optimist would say a glass is half-full, while a pessimist would say it’s half-empty. Someone with a mind for physics would say, “The volume of this cylinder is equally composed of a colorless, odorless liquid and a colorless, odorless gas. Thus, the cylinder is neither full nor empty.”
With…
GBMP
(GBMP: Boston, MA) -- The Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP), educational partner of The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence, has released the agenda for the 8th annual Northeast Shingo Prize Conference. This year’s theme is “Learning to Share,” emphasizing continuous improvement…
InfinityQS
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International Inc., a leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, has announced that its 6th annual user conference, Infusion 2012, will be held Sept. 23-26, 2012, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Denver. The premier, three-day event will…
FDA
(FDA: Washington, D.C.) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a long history of working with patients and patient advocates, beginning with the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Its interactions with patient groups have evolved since then, and the agency now works with patients representing a…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- On Wed., June 20, 2012, MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning technology, will sponsor the Houston Lean Six Sigma Professionals (HLSSP) first roundtable discussion event at the Westin Oaks in Houston, Texas from 5:30–7 p…
Dynamic Intelligent Solutions
(DIS: Clinton Township, MI) -- Dynamic Intelligent Solutions (DIS) recently outfitted an automotive customer’s paint bake oven with ChamberCam, allowing the customer to obtain optical 3-D thermal expansion and displacement data of an aluminum roof while attached to a full-body vehicle during the…
NIST
A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating room—and a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken steps to ensure it performs as well when discerning oxygen-depleted tissues and cancer cells in the…
McGraw-Hill
Written by Masaaki Imai, the renowned quality management expert who introduced the concept of kaizen to the English-speaking world, this innovative guide is filled with hundreds of international gemba kaizen success stories and examples from a wide range of industries. These examples illustrate how…
Ron Kaufman
You start your morning running late and sprint into your local coffee shop for your morning cup of joe. As you breathlessly place your order, you notice the barista doesn’t smile at you. She utters a flat, “Here you go” as she hands you the steaming cup. “Why didn’t she put the cardboard sleeve…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- On Wed., June 20, 2012, MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning technology, will sponsor the Houston Lean Six Sigma Professionals (HLSSP) first round-table discussion event from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Westin Oaks in…
ANSYS Inc.
Competitive swimmers this summer can streamline performance thanks to Speedo’s revolutionary Fastskin Racing System, which was designed using engineering simulation software developed by ANSYS. When worn together as a complete system, a Fastskin suit, cap, and goggle can reduce full-body passive…
A2LA
(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) is offering a course titled, “ISO 15189 and Accreditation” on Sept. 24–25, 2012, at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel. This course will use lecture, discussion, and interactive exercises to assist you in understanding the…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $410.42 million, according to The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) program, was down 17.0 percent from March…
ISPE
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) just concluded its two-day current good manufacturing practices (CGMP) conference, which was co-sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Held June 4–5, 2012, in Baltimore, the conference met with…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Out of the Present Crisis: Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy, by Terence T. Burton (Productivity Press, 2012) provides a rediscovered but practical view of improvement for readers across a wide range of industries—including CEOs and their executive…
Taran March @ Quality Digest
Right, let me get this straight. The uncomfortable process of air travel, bad enough with its crowding, overpriced food, and seating melees, will soon be intensified by a new airport humiliation: asking a hologram for help. And we think old ladies are odd talking to their cats.
Beginning next…
SGS
(SGS: Rutherford, NJ) -- SGS North America has launched the PREP+ Program, which supports SGS clients through the precertification, certification, and post-certification processes for any standard that SGS is accredited to. The program has been created to simplify the implementation process and…
Gartner
Chief information officers and IT leaders must address three key implications of the “post-PC” era, as workforces and consumers increasingly access IT applications and content through mobile devices, according to Gartner Inc., an information technology research and advisory company.
“The release…
Steven Ouellette
Why is improving quality so important? Why not spend our money on something else in the business? I know it seems a little odd to ask this, especially to readers of Quality Digest, but could those not initiated into the mysteries of the quality gurus be right? Is getting it “out the door” the only…
Mary Beth Edmond, Jonathan Flanders
Ensuring patient safety is one of the most vital and challenging roles in health care. Public reporting of preventable medical errors has forced hospitals to report their medical error numbers accurately and to improve the quality of care. Organizations such as the Institute of Medicine recommend…
Timothy F. Bednarz
One of the pillars of leadership is developing and fostering a deep sense of mutual workplace trust. One of the problems facing organizations is a simple lack of trust between employees and their managers.
For managers to experience successful growth and positive results in their respective…
