Virginia Helps Afghanistan Regulate Metrology Standards
(VDACS: Richmond, Virginia) -- As gas prices have risen in the United States, so have complaints about gasoline pumps.
October Conference to Spur Bioscience Innovation
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) will cosponsor an international conference on “Accelerating Innovation in 21st Century Biosciences: Identifying the Measurement Standards and Technol
UCIS Technical Subcommittee Receives Unified Coverage Database
(Mentor Graphics: Wilsonville, Oregon) -- Mentor Graphics has announced the donation of its Unified Coverage Database (UCDB) specification and application programming interface (API), which manage all coverage data from multiple tools, to Accellera’s Unified Coverage Database Interoperability (UCIS)
Empowerment Without Backup
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mpowering people is a cool idea. Giving individuals authority and responsibility has many benefits. It fosters accountability and communicates confidence. It avails people the opportunity to contribute in a manner that allows their voices to be heard.
The Latest in Lean: Training Within Industry
Donnelly Custom Manufacturing of Alexandria, Minnesota, a short-run injection molding company, knows that proper training is vital to productivity and quality.
Visual Thinking
Since one of the pillars of lean thinking is the visual workplace, why hasn’t problem solving in the workplace been taken to the visual level?
American Management
In the 1990s the theme seemed to be, “Don’t compete against your competitors, buy them and compete with
2008 EFQM Excellence Award Finalists
(EFQM: Brussels) -- EFQM, a nonprofit membership foundation headquartered in Brussels, has announced the 11 finalists of the EFQM Excellence Award 2008.
