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Megan Wallin-Kerth
Business owners and employees alike have long debated over how best to achieve quality standards and what those standards ought to be. However, as much as linear thinking may help when measuring degrees of improvement, increases in profit, or low turnover rates, it can’t tell you that your company…
Angie Basiouny
Wharton experts used machine learning to help uncover the secret formula for successful healthy habit formation, and it turned out there’s no one formula.
“There’s this widely spread rumor that it takes 21 days to form a habit,” says Katy Milkman, a Wharton professor of operations, information,…
(Mistakesbook.com: Colleyville, TX) -- Mistakes are often seen as roadblocks to success. But what if they were actually the stepping stones to growth and innovation? Mark Graban, award-winning author and consultant, tackles this paradigm in his latest book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a leading global product life cycle management (PLM) consulting and research firm, has released its “2023 Executive PLM Market Report.” This report provides an executive-level view of CIMdata’s comprehensive analysis of the PLM market, with summary charts on the…
Jennifer V. Miller
What are the stories we tell ourselves? It’s a simple question, yet one rich with possibility. In my years of creating leadership development programs, one of the “stories” that continually surfaces with leaders is “I need to do X for my direct reports because they are not yet ready/willing/able to…
Aaron Smith
A successful company can’t run without happy and motivated employees. One way you can achieve that is by improving your employees’ uptime. Uptime refers to your employees’ freedom to pursue personal and occupational growth without the burden of preventable injuries. Here is everything you need to…
(Waygate Technologies: Huerth, Germany) -- Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and leader in nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial inspection, has launched the Everest Ca-Zoom HD, a state-of-the-art pan, tilt, and zoom (PTZ) camera system. It’s designed with an integrated…
(Canon Medical Components USA: Irvine, CA) -- Canon Medical Digital Radiography, a leader in advanced flat-panel detectors (FPDs), X-ray components, X-ray tubes, and innovative video camera technologies, announces the latest generation of flat-panel detector systems, the CXDI-Elite Wireless Digital…
Mike Figliuolo
You folks know I love asking questions. From this post about forgoing answers in favor of asking questions, to my quote, “Asking the right question about the future is more powerful than having the right answer about the past,” I’ve found questions to be a more powerful leadership tool than many…
Chandrakant Isi
The future is here, and it’s taking shape with 4D printing. This emerging technology, also known as shape-morphing systems, adds the dimension of time to 3D printing.
By employing responsive materials that react to external elements like heat, light, moisture, electric current, or pressure, 4D-…
Mark Mortensen
The end of Covid-19 workplace disruptions has ushered in a fresh set of challenges for organizations. Chief among them has been establishing new office policies for a workforce that has largely embraced flexible work and has expressed a desire for this to become a permanent fixture.
But…
(ELEVATE: Hong Kong) -- ELEVATE’s biannual risk report, compiling data from 20,000 global supplier audits, finds that nearly half of all sourcing countries are now considered a “high risk” of supply-chain ESG violations.
The U.K., Germany, Portugal, and Italy are now ranked as high risk from the…
National Physical Laboratory
(National Physical Laboratory: Teddington, Middlesex, U.K.) -- Fluorescent microparticles and nanobeads, widely used as molecular tags, are also effective calibrants in fluorescence microscopy. They can be fabricated from a range of materials and come in different sizes, shapes (e.g., hollow vs.…
Gleb Tsipursky
As the world slowly recovers from the pandemic, many knowledge workers find themselves at a crossroad. On one hand, the prospect of returning to the office stirs up a cocktail of dread and nostalgia. On the other hand, the threat of AI-driven job elimination looms large. It’s like being caught…
Anne Trafton
A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: Introduce a few weaker bonds into the material.
Working with a type of polymer known as polyacrylate elastomers, the researchers found that they could increase the materials’ resistance…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is currently developing a Legal Metrology Publication Series: SP 2200 to provide stakeholders with current information on the status and development of U.S. and international…
(Pratt & Whitney: East Hartford, CT) -- Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems will be demonstrating the Labmaster Universal (model 175) at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago, Sept. 9–14, 2024. With more than 31 years in the field, the Labmaster Universal 175 is a…
William A. Levinson
‘Tech leaders issue warning: AI raises risk of extinction”1 comes across as another version of science fiction stories that have been around for decades about humans creating something greater than themselves that finally destroys them. Although it’s obviously risky to allow a computer to control…
NIST
A bullet piercing the protective armor of a first responder, a jellyfish stinging a swimmer, micrometeorites striking a satellite—high-speed projectiles that puncture materials show up in many forms. Researchers constantly aim to identify new materials that can better resist these high-speed…
(ANCA: Melbourne, Australia) -- ANCA, a global manufacturer of CNC grinding machines, has launched its first Female Machinist Award. The award aims to recognize and honor outstanding achievements of female machinists in the tool and cutter grinding industry. By promoting gender diversity and…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, has released the 2023 CIMdata CAM Market Analysis Report (MAR), the 31st annual study of the global computer-aided machining (CAM) market. CIMdata estimates that, based on end-user payments…
Stephanie Ojeda
Design controls are a frequent citation in 483 observations and warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In fact, the agency has noted a large proportion of past recalls that could have been prevented with design controls.
FDA guidance also makes an explicit link between…
ISO
Net zero is our strongest tool yet against the climate crisis. The transition to net-zero emissions presents a compelling solution that offers not only environmental benefits but also economic, social, and health advantages. Failing to act swiftly and decisively risks catastrophic climate change,…
(NewTek: Pennsauken, NJ) -- NewTek AC-operated LVDT position sensors often serve as a more reliable, precise, and cost-effective alternative to magnetostrictive linear position sensors in the monitoring and control of valves in power generation and hydroelectrical stations. Because power generation…
Mark Hembree
Pick a problem—any problem. As soon as you have one without an immediate answer, we can begin.
Perhaps you’re a quality professional, an auditor, a systems analyst, or just the person your boss sent to find out what the heck is going on around here. Whether you have a problem on your plant floor…
