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Continual product and process innovation are crucial for commercially successful products to maintain their industry dominance, according to MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) industry co-director Vah Erdekian.
At the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity annual summit held Oct…
(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- The Olympus DP73 digital microscope camera makes it easy for researchers, pathologists, neuroscientists, and others to achieve exceptional imaging results. The camera delivers 14-bit color depth and 17.28 megapixel resolution for exceptional color…
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a global public health and safety organization that certifies products and writes standards for food, water, and consumer goods, has launched the NSF Home Product Certification program. The new testing and certification program verifies the quality,…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- How do you determine if your project was a success, beyond being within budget and completed on time? How do you determine the impact of a project? How do you capture valuable knowledge from a current or past project to enhance future programs? The answer to all…
(SAE International: Warrendale, PA) -- SAE International, global association of engineers and technical experts in aerospace, automotive, and commercial-vehicle industries, has launched an online interactive video channel that will enable users to view video on SAE International programs,…
(University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Employers can expect higher worker satisfaction and production if the company offers flexible hours that allow employees to handle crises and short-term family commitments, a new University of Michigan study indicates.
When the demands of personal…
RFID tags are not like bar codes. Just because you see a tag doesn’t mean your RFID equipment will see it. Conversely, if you can’t see a tag, that doesn’t mean your RFID equipment won’t read it. To make sense of this contradiction, it’s important to understand the basic concepts about RFID…
In 2011, the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a proponent of knowledge management, benchmarking, and best practices business research, talked to a series of large organizations to learn how they measure quality. Every organization interviewed expressed considerable interest in…
(Hexagon AB: Cobham, United Kingdom) -- Hexagon AB, a global provider of design, measurement, and visualization technologies, will host its second annual international conference, Hexagon 2012, June 4–7 at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Bringing together users from Hexagon…
(Georgia Tech: Atlanta) -- Creating new, improved pharmaceuticals can be like cracking the code of a combination lock: If you have the wrong numbers, the lock won’t open. Even worse, you don’t know if your numbers are close to the actual code or way off the mark. The only solution is to simply…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- An exploration of the ways in which people skills can be acquired and developed, People Skills at Work (CRC Press, 2011) by Evan Berman and Dira Berman discusses new career development tools, the role of professional commitment statements, psychological contracts,…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) — The vice president in charge of Xerox’s Corporate Lean Six Sigma initiatives and the CEO and co-founder of Zingerman’s community of businesses are among the headliners speaking at the American Society for Quality (ASQ) 2012 Lean and Six Sigma Conference.
The event, which…
(FDANews: Falls Church, VA) -- FDAnews has announced details of its upcoming CAPA is King Virtual Conference: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Assuring Compliance, to be held online Dec., 13, 2011, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. EST.
These days more than two-thirds of all Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
(Lennox Hill Ltd.: London, UK) -- Lennox Hill Ltd. has launched a Competency Testing module to further complement its online isoTracker document control/quality management software. The Competency Testing module is the fourth module that makes up isoTracker and follows a recent addition of SSL…
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Endress+Hauser, provider of measuring instruments and complete process automation solutions for the industrial process engineering industry, introduces the Promag 53 electromagnetic flow meter with Ethernet/IP connectivity for easy integration with the…
During the Robert W. Baird 41st annual Industrial Conference, which was held Nov. 8–9, 2011, in Chicago, teams from Baird Equity Research put together macro-sector comments based on presentations and breakout sessions from more than 100 public companies. Here are some of the comments pulled from…
(IS&BCA: Zagreb, Croatia) -- Most of the companies that have implemented ISO 9001 have no idea they can implement ISO/IEC 27001:2005—“Information technology—Security techniques,” this increasingly popular information security standard, with much less effort than they initially anticipate.…
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $606.56 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S. Manufacturing…
(Parker Hannifin: Hatfield, PA) -- The Porter Instrument Division of Parker Hannifin, a global provider of motion and control technologies, has unveiled the expanded P-Series variable area flow meter product line, a new range of flow meters that provides significantly greater application…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Building on the success of Mark Graban’s Shingo Prize-winning first edition in 2009, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Second Edition (Productivity Press, 2011), explains how to use the lean management system to…
(JAI: San Jose, CA) -- JAI, manufacturer of high quality, industrial-grade cameras for machine vision, has introduced new GigE Vision versions of its eight-megapixel, industrial-grade, charge coupled device (CCD) camera series. Like the Camera Link versions introduced earlier in the year, the new…
Whenever manufacturing nonconformances are discovered, immediate action is required to ensure that a flawed product is quickly identified, contained, and corrected at the suppliers’—and often the customers’—locations. Radiography can deliver a timely solution to these potential problems. In…
Suppose you came upon a man in the woods, working to saw down a tree. He is exhausted from working for hours. You suggest he could take a break to sharpen the saw because it will help the work go faster. “I don’t have time to sharpen the saw!” he exclaims. “I’m busy sawing!”
People and…
It is well-known that negative interactions have a bigger impact than positive ones, and that people tend to remember a person’s unfavorable qualities more vividly than their positive traits. These observations were included in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) titled, “How a Few…
Bah! The NBA makes me mad. Seriously, why can’t the basketball players and the execs resolve this current lockout? I want to have something to watch after football season is over. Let’s talk about what is holding up the players and the organizations from agreeing to a decision on how money is…
