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We spend about one-third of our waking hours at work. That’s often more time than we spend asleep or hanging out with our family and friends. It’s no wonder then that workplaces develop their own languages.
Workplace jargon can help streamline our jobs and bond us to our colleagues. But sometimes…
(Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific has simplified the workflow for its SureTect PCR (polymerase chain reaction) system by introducing streamlined handling and fail-safe color-coded plates and reagents to smart, intuitive software and instrumentation.
In the pursuit of food…
(Hexagon: Cobham, Surrey, U.K.) -- Hexagon has announced the winner of the second cohort of its Sixth Sense open innovation platform, which nurtures startups creating solutions to pressing manufacturing challenges.
Hexagon is a global digital reality solutions provider with technology that…
(AW-Lake: Oak Creek, WI) -- AW-Lake is supplying flow monitors to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for use on its research vessels as part of a process to measure the temperature and salt content of the world’s oceans.
NOAA previously was unaware when a pump clogged…
In a highly regulated industry like medical technology, manufacturing processes must undergo either process verification or process validation to ensure they’re consistently producing the correct result. The question is, which one should you use?
Verification and validation are two different…
Knowledge-intensive work is quite different from the physical manufacturing work that birthed the corporate hierarchies widely prevalent today. Consider the incompetent Pointy-Haired Boss in the Dilbert comic strip: He can’t lead through wisdom or better information, and he’s unable to control his…
Knowledge-intensive work is quite different from the physical manufacturing work that birthed the corporate hierarchies widely prevalent today. Consider the incompetent Pointy-Haired Boss in the Dilbert comic strip: He can’t lead through wisdom or better information, and he’s unable to control his…
Knowledge-intensive work is quite different from the physical manufacturing work that birthed the corporate hierarchies widely prevalent today. Consider the incompetent Pointy-Haired Boss in the Dilbert comic strip: He can’t lead through wisdom or better information, and he’s unable to control his…
(PR Newswire: Boston, MA) -- Membrane materials are of fundamental importance for fuel cells—so significant, in fact, that they typically give their name to the fuel cell, as is the case for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. IDTechEx forecasts the market for ion-exchange membranes in PEM…
(HEIDENHAIN: Traunreut, Germany) -- To assist in training the next generation of manufacturing professionals, ACU-RITE is offering deep discounts on its line of DROs and MILLPWR G2 CNC retrofit packages.
Additionally, HEIDENHAIN offers a collection of educational services and products to meet the…
Shortly before the layoffs at Salesforce, Marc Benioff, co-founder and co-CEO of Salesforce, sent a companywide Slack message complaining about the low productivity of recent hires made during the pandemic and asked, “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture…
(Cablevey Conveyors: Oskaloosa, IA) -- The food processing industry continues to experience significant growth. Budgets trend upward for conveying equipment and maintenance in the year ahead, with 82 percent of those surveyed reporting their budgets will be increasing in the next 12 months.
To…
If you feel like there are fewer workers to be found these days, rest assured—you are correct. A decrease in the rate of births, declining since the 1970s, coupled with decreasing labor market participation, more job openings, a shortfall of immigrants, and a surge of retirements, is creating a…
(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- Digital Industries Software announces its latest release of Simcenter software for mechanical simulation helps streamline electrification engineering projects, assists new aircraft meet margins of safety, simplifies durability testing across many industries and much more.
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You put a lot of time and energy into leading slackers, but you don’t get anything back in terms of results. Your job as a leader is to figure out what will motivate them to perform.
Slackers are in the lower left corner of the leadership matrix. They have the talent to get work done, but they…
As 2022 came to a close, I was as amazed as I am every year by all the “___ of the Year” lists. It seems like every media outlet creates its own list of the year’s 10 best books, and then there’s the Sherwin-Williams Color of the Year, the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year, and so on.
This got me…
(CERATIZIT S.A.: Mamer, Luxembourg) -- Water isn’t only the elixir of life— it has also established itself in industrial production for cooling, cleaning, or as a solvent. Furthermore, waterjet cutting is recognized as a reliable alternative to conventional cutting processes. Extremely smooth cut…
(Fastems: Tampere, Finland, and West Chester, OH) -- A new complimentary service for all Fastems customers, “myFastems” provides more advanced digital services for customers using Fastems’ Manufacturing Management Software (MMS) Version 6 and above. Considered a software-as-a-service, myFastems…
Issues affecting the workforce today are both immediate—such as the aging out of many experienced baby boomers —and long term—such as meeting employees’ changed expectations of workplace flexibility, pay, career paths, and innovative benefits.
Onboarding and retaining people who are new to the…
It all started with my bathroom sink. I noticed that it was draining slowly, and that I could pull out the pop-up stopper. It was no longer attached to the lever that raised and lowered it. A look into the cabinet below the sink revealed that the ball socket and lever had become loose, freeing the…
It’s been decades since air gauging came into existence, and many changes and refinements have been made over the years. It has proved itself as a reliable and accurate method of gauging parts, particularly in cases of close tolerances and fine finishes. Its high accuracy, simplicity, and…
When choosing to spend money, customers will likely investigate the brand behind the name to get an idea of whom they’re building ties with as well as an impression of service quality. Customer reviews must point to a genuine interaction with the company to be valuable and influence purchasing…
(AMETEK Inc: Berwyn, PA) -- Creaform, a business unit of AMETEK and a leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, has added the high-accuracy hand-held scanner HandySCAN BLACK/Elite Limited to the HandySCAN 3D BLACK series, already the reference in portable metrology.…
(Key Technology: Walla Walla, WA) -- From humble beginnings growing vegetables for hungry neighbors during the Great Depression, R.S. Cockerill has grown to become one of the largest independent potato packers in the United Kingdom today. Cockerill credits much of this success to its top-quality…
It’s old news, but since 2019 the U.S. now has three times its former number of remote workers. Furthermore, an astounding 97.6 percent of employees want that option to remain at least partially on the table for the remainder of their careers.
But how compatible is this with the American work…
