Process Improvement To succeed today you need to stay ahead of the competition. Process improvement plays an integral role in the modern organisation and keeping up to speed on the latest happenings is vitally important. See what others are up to and consider if it may be of benefit to you.
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CAMBRIDGE - With the first game of a late March doubleheader scheduled for noon, members of the MIT baseball team and a Rawlings representative meet at 8:30, gathering in a back corner of the school's Aero/Astro hangar. Lefthanded reliever Mike Vasquez stands behind an air cannon, launching baseballs at a mannequin wearing a chest protector. Righthanded starter Jay Turner records electronic sensor data each time a ball makes contact.
Not your typical pregame routine . But as a result of their work, Vasquez and Turner could "make it" to the major leagues.
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Tuesday 29 April, 2008 08:43 AM |
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Arena Solutions, the leading provider of on-demand product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturers of all sizes, today announced that Ritchey Design Inc. (www.ritcheylogic.com), a leading innovator in bicycle design and engineering, has chosen on-demand Arena PLM to streamline its current product development process, boost productivity and improve global communication and collaboration. Arena PLM will help the company speed the development and release of future products as well as enhancements to current products, including its highly innovative Break-Away Bikes, a line of ultra-light, racing-quality bikes that separate so they can be packed in a standard suitcase for easy travel. Ritchey will also integrate Arena PLM with its Box Solutions ERP system, further streamlining company processes by linking product planning with product execution. ....click the link to read more |
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Friday 18 April, 2008 12:16 PM |
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The Dubai Engineering Challenges 2008 conference has begun at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) Dubai Men’s College campus.
Under the spotlight are the engineering challenges shaping the sustainable future of Dubai and the UAE, the organisers said in a statement.
More than 1,000 delegates consisting of industry leaders, engineering professionals, educators and engineering students are providing a stimulating forum to debate industry best practice, solutions to the impending skills shortage and ways in which innovation can overcome the unique challenges facing the region’s engineering projects.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 08:08 PM |
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MANILA, Philippines—Value engineering is often defined as the formal or informal attempt to assure highest value by delivering all required functions of a certain product, project, or process at the lowest overall cost.
And who would not love practicing value engineering, especially with today’s rising price of construction materials, increasing labor cost as well as the need to have the structure finished the soonest time possible.
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 08:20 PM |
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Nelson Engineering Co. is the latest engineering consulting company to implement Dyadem's FMEA-Pro software to deliver efficient, high quality reliability and maintainability assessments to its clients. A premier engineering design, operations and maintenance consulting firm, Nelson Engineering evaluates complex heritage and newly designed facility systems, equipment and utilities (FSEU) for the aerospace, environmental and defense sectors and the U.S. State Department. ....click the link to read more |
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Wednesday 2 April, 2008 08:06 AM |
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The late nineties saw most global businesses make a transition towards a paperless office. Today, the buzzword amongst major businesses is “Virtualization” . Employees connected to each other can share data and make business decisions on a real time basis. In the quest for virtualization, organizations are facing roadblocks during implementation in terms of Information security. Any compromise on the security aspect will leave the network vulnerable to attacks from a range of sources. Such connectivity if not secured will provide attackers the perfect medium to approach employees from the relative anonymity of the Internet. ....click the link to read more |
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Wednesday 26 March, 2008 04:05 AM |
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As a plant manager for the past seven years, I had a unique opportunity to lead a lean manufacturing implementation in two separate facilities. The plants were similar in numerous ways. They were both building-products manufacturing facilities, both were continuous processes, both had roughly 300 hourly people, and they were both owned by the same Fortune 500 corporation. ....click this link to read more |
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Friday 21 March, 2008 08:05 AM |
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As it turns out, a small nudge is all it took to open a floodgate of innovation in water-efficient manufacturing.
Necessity is the mother of invention — but a little extra incentive never hurts either. WaterSense is providing that bit of incentive by raising consumer awareness about the need for water efficiency. Consumers, in turn, will drive a greater demand for innovation in water-saving technology. The Environmental Protection Agency created this partnership program in 2006 to protect the future of our nation’s water supply. ....click the link to read more |
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 08:08 AM |
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In nature and most manufacturing processes no two things are ever exactly the same. There exist small variations from part to part or measure to measure. If you were to acquire metrics on features of 100 "identical" parts and plot the values relative to frequency, you would be plotting a histogram. For stable processes, the curve would most likely be a normal, or bell-shaped, curve. The analysis of the data in this fashion is called descriptive statistics. ....click the link to read more |
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Saturday 19 January, 2008 12:09 AM |
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Breakthrough which marks the creation of the first living artificial heart could signal the beginning of the end of organ shortages, reports Roger Highfield
Doctors have stripped down and refurbished a dead heart so that it can beat again, an unprecedented feat that could signal the beginning of the end of organ shortages. ....click the link to read more |
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Thursday 17 January, 2008 12:08 PM |
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In October of 2005, U.S. Gypsum Corp. began a plant optimization rollout across 50 manufacturing sites that produce gypsum wall board.
The goal was to unify its plants on one instance of Oracle ERP (enterprise resource planning) and offer visibility across all sites. “We wanted to make sure you could go to any plant and the processes would be exactly the same,” says Nat Parameswaran, director of business solutions in supply chain and e-business systems at Chicago-based U.S. Gypsum. “Even before we started the implementation, we did a process standardization across all plants.” ....click the link to read more |
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Thursday 17 January, 2008 08:06 AM |
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"If it isn't in writing, it didn't happen." It's an old saying that engineers and everyone in your organization, private-sector or public, should be aware of. More important, everyone should know how to put the concept—documentation —into practice. Does that mean writing careful notes about any information conveyed orally? No, it means a lot more than that. ...click the link to read more |
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Wednesday 16 January, 2008 08:07 PM |
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A new generation of smart prosthetics is being developed which can combine mechanical devices with electronic intelligence to replace lost or damaged body parts and bring remarkable functionality to the user
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Saturday 12 January, 2008 04:03 PM |
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Life can be cruel, but when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Liz Soden had been an active mother of 5 with a love of the outdoors when a tragedy turned her life around. She still yearned for the outdoors and from that yearning was born the TankChair which is probably the ultimate off road wheel chair for the disabled
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Saturday 12 January, 2008 12:06 AM |
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Sir Edmund, who conquered the world’s highest mountain in 1953, had been suffering health problems since April after suffering a fall whilst in Nepal. While the New Zealander considered himself merely an average beekeeper, he was widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s greatest adventurers. Returning to Everest in 2003, the 50th anniversary of his climb, he was appalled at the way Everest had become a virtual tourist attraction . He called for Everest to be “closed” for a while, to give it a rest.
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Friday 11 January, 2008 06:01 PM |
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Iconic and functional the Swiss Army Knife defined a generation. With its myriad tools like tweezers and bottle-openers, the gadget was for a time indispensable to the clued-in traveler.
However that generation has moved on and now the company is looking to re invent the brand with arange of new products.
Diversification has been key. and the brand now sells luggage, kitchen knives, clothing and watches, each emblazoned with the firm's logo -- a white cross within a red crest.
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Friday 11 January, 2008 08:01 AM |
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Going in to hospital for hip replacement or stent ?
University of Arkansas researchers have found a simple, inexpensive way to create a nanowire coating on the surface of biocompatible titanium that can be used to create more effective surfaces for hip replacement, dental reconstruction and vascular stenting. Further, the material can easily be sterilized using ultraviolet light and water or using ethanol, making it useful in hospital settings and meat-processing plants.
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Thursday 10 January, 2008 04:06 PM |
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The Japanese paper folding art of Origami has been instrumental in the career of Dr. Robert Lang.
The practicality of his engineering and scientific research began to influence his origami designs, until the line between the two began to blur. His most ambitious project to date, however, is shared with a team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with whom he has developed a space telescope – one that is forty times larger than the Hubble and collapsible for space travel through a series of precise origami folds.
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Sunday 6 January, 2008 04:03 PM |
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The worlds highest and deadliest mountain , Mt Everest is expected to get a bit safer from next year. Trials are expected to commence around Mt Everest in January 2008 for the Alpine Wasp, a remotely controlled search and rescue helicopter which is being developed by New Zealand engineers TGR Helicopter.
The Alpine Wasp is controlled remotely by a pilot back on the ground using information provided by on board cameras and laser ranging sensors. Each helicopter has six cameras on its fuselage and a total of 10 in its nose - five looking forwards and five looking down.
The Helicopter will be used to rescue climbers in distress, but it also raises the possibility of retrieving the many dead bodies on Mt Everest which are too difficult to be removed by conventional rescue methods . Climbers are a breed apart from normal people and there are also differing views on the way climbs should be promoted , organised and attempted in an unregulated environment
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Thursday 27 December, 2007 12:03 AM |
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Gadgets and new ideas pioneered by others are assembled and people are able to see them in action. An exhibition hall environment can be particularly helpful when talking about something as futuristic as wireless electricity or smart shirts that monitor your health.
Booz Allen Hamilton, the big McLean engineering technology and consulting firm, are able to demonstrate the art of the possible and they invite visitors into a room called the "technology petting zoo." to experience the innovations in the flesh
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Wednesday 26 December, 2007 08:05 AM |
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Prof. Ryuta Kawashima, who helped develop Nintendo's "Brain Age" games, is teaming up with Toyota to develop intelligent cars that will help seniors drive safely, the researcher said on Tuesday.
"We envision future cars will be able to monitor brain and emotional activity to back up elderly drivers," said Kawashima, a Tohoku University scientist who worked on Nintendo's best-selling "Brain Age" games - and whose smiling image is the guide in the series. ...click the link to read more |
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Friday 21 December, 2007 04:06 PM |
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