(InSite Solutions: Wake Forest, NC) -- One of the key objectives of lean initiatives is to identify waste, or muda, and it can be found in almost any action that takes place in a facility.

I think there are no new airplane stories left for those of us who take to the not-always-friendly skies, but having been on one of those super delay specials recently and coincidentally not caring especially about being hours late (I had booked a full day of buffer

You are a hard worker. But oftentimes at day’s end, it seems you haven’t accomplished much. You want what you do to really count. Here are ways to consistently and incrementally improve performance.

Olympus NDT: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus NDT has announceds the launch of its instrument rental program in the United States.

(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- In conjunction with the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), the kelvin, the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature, is currently being newly defined at the Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany, which is the counter

(Meggitt: San Juan Capistrano, CA) -- Meggitt Sensing Systems, designer and manufacturer of high-performance sensing and monitoring systems for air and land-based machinery in extreme environments, has introduced the Endevco model 2224C series of piezoelectric accelerometers.

(Minitab: State College, PA) -- Minitab, a leading provider of software for quality improvement, is offering at no cost, an online preview training session on value-stream mapping, a technique used to analyze the flow of information and materials needed to bring products to customers.

For the second straight month, fuel economy of all new vehicles sold in the United States is at its highest level, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Structured Decision Making (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) is an easy-to-read book about an often conflicting and difficult topic.

Recently, fellow-blogger David Kasprzak, introduced me to the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) str