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Critical care units at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, New York, were faced with a formidable task. They had applied to receive the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, a distinction given only to the top intensive care units in the United States. One of the components on…
Every human being, over time, yearns to put his life in order—to have his expectations met, and to use filters to help him know how a situation will resolve itself. Consequently, we subconsciously strive to put new information into existing categories, based on previous patterns and preset concepts…
(University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI) -- A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells.
The researchers found a way to make an “optical battery,” says Stephen Rand…
(Starrett: Athol, MA) -- The L.S. Starrett Co., a global manufacturer of precision tools and metrology equipment, announced its 4-Port Gage Multiplexer line and SmartCable for a fast and easy way to connect a measuring tool to a PC. Both wire-based products offer a simple plug-and-play setup to…
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- MoveInspect HR is a portable coordinate measurement machine (CMM) consisting of high-resolution digital cameras and the hand-operated MI.Probe. Data are collected by sampling defined measuring points with the probe; the system measures hidden points quickly and…
(AMA: New York) -- To thrive and excel in the business world, you should seek to attain the knowledge and skills needed to move beyond effectiveness to greatness. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
In The 8th Habit: From…
(WCBF Inc: Chicago) -- Because it is hard to take time away from the workplace, WCBF has introduced a one-day pass option for any of the four days of the Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Healthcare Summit, scheduled for May 10–13, 2011, in New Orleans. The pass is for new attendees only, so…
(Lean Frontiers: Fishers, IN) -- Nationally recognized reshoring expert Harry Moser will address a special session at the upcoming Lean Logistics Summit, scheduled to be held June 28–29, 2011, in Cincinnati. Don’t miss this opportunity to evaluate the true costs of your supply chain. Learn from…
(Grant Thornton: Chicago) -- In a national survey of U.S. manufacturing chief financial officers (CFOs) and senior controllers conducted by Grant Thornton LLP, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd., there are serious concerns about inflation. According to the survey, 66 percent…
We couldn’t pass this story up. Sure, this toy isn’t anywhere near as accurate as a Steinbichler or Capture3D or Breukmann or any of the others, but it is really cool.--Editors
Leave it to an iPhone app developer to turn a tool that cost hundreds of dollars a year ago into something that can be…
In part one of this article, the technique of root cause analysis (RCA) was explained using simple examples. Part two contains a detailed list of critical success factors to get maximum results from your RCA. These are based on lessons learned from experience, including mistakes made. Because RCA…
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. —Alfred Korzybski
Over the last several years, I’ve studied a lot of processes and watched communities grow around them. I’ve been a member of many of these communities.…
(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), in partnership with the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IQMH), is offering a five-day, free trial of the educational series “Decoding ISO 15189,” modules 8 and 11.
The interactive online…
(California Science Center: Los Angeles) -- More than 900 top students from California’s middle- and senior-high schools will convene for the final round of competition in the 60th annual California State Science Fair, May 2–3, 2011, at the California Science Center in Exposition Park near downtown…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- Juran is offering two “Leading with Lean” workshops, the first beginning on June 13, 2011, and the second beginning on July 11, 2011. Both workshops will be held in Clearwater, Florida, and will consist of four-day, hands-on intensive training in…
(Nissan: Kanagawa, Japan) -- At the New York International Auto Show, the 100-percent electric, zero-emission Nissan LEAF was named 2011 World Car of the Year, edging out the BMW 5-Series and the Audi A8 for the top spot. This award is the latest in a string of accolades for the…
(Eriez: Erie, PA) -- Eriez, a global leader in advanced technology for magnetic, vibratory, and inspection applications, announces the availability of the Eriez Pull Test Kit. When used properly, the kit will help users monitor the efficiency of their magnetic separator by measuring the holding…
(Rexroth: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- Developed with lean manufacturing expert Dan Fleming, Rexroth’s lean manufacturing podcast, episode 16, “Lean in Assembly Operations” discusses how to apply lean concepts to automation. The episode is the latest in a series of Rexroth podcasts dedicated to…
When we focus on not failing, fear rents most of the space in our minds, and we see monsters in need of slaying everywhere we turn. We lose track of the original vision that propelled our actions, and the sheer act of working becomes at best a passionless exercise and at worst, drudgery.
Sadly,…
(NASA: Washington) -- To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.
“For 21…
(Seidenader: Markt Schwaben, Germany) -- The particular attention paid to leak tightness of pharmaceutical containers has been continuously increasing during the past months. Seidenader stays abreast of these changes with the development of a module for head space analysis (HSA). Besides the…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On Thursday, July 21, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a webinar, “Documenting Traceability and Calibration Intervals.” Georgia Harris, of NIST’s Weights and Measures Division (WMD), will lead the webinar. At the end of (or during…
(Prrrfect: Carlsbad, CA) -- Prrrfect Technologies LLC has chosen the CONTROL 2011 exposition, held May 3–6 in Stuttgart, Germany, to launch its portable direct computer controlled coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM) specifically designed to support production operations such as precision…
(Artel: Westbrook, ME) -- Artel, a global leader in liquid-handling quality assurance, will be holding “Pipetting Olympics” competitions in labs across the country as part of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, April 24–30. During this competition, lab technologists—as…
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Though fixed-mount ID readers have been enabled with Ethernet support for quite some time, handheld ID readers, traditionally serial or US-based, have always required a PC to connect into the factory network.
As a node on the Ethernet factory network, the DataMan 8000…
