Any time an organization looks to make changes using process improvement methodologies, it often meets heavy internal resistance from the “doers.” These individuals are responsible for instituting ...

To improve the safety of the operating environment, a holistic method for defining and evaluating the systems that aid an operator with the safe operation of a process unit is required. This approach ...

Continual performance improvement is the key to health system survival in today’s challenging financial environment. That was the consensus reached by a panel of CFOs from hospitals and health systems ...

Milan Mangukiya transforms electronic engineering through fixture-based automation, medical device reliability, and ...

The Army has employed a variety of techniques for continuous process improvement (CPI) for many years. Some have resulted in projects that saved the Army millions of dollars, while other efforts have ...

The business world is experiencing a transformative era driven by rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This is an opportune moment for business leaders to rethink their ...

Dr. Jim Kane addressed the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), ISO 9000, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Six Sigma alternative frameworks for process improvement for ...

A physicist, Eli Goldratt, famously transformed the way business leaders thought about the economics of production in the 1980s by pointing out the financial contribution of manufacturing to a ...

There is a common lean phrase, “Bad systems beat good people.” Sometimes it is attributed to Dr. W. Edwards Deming although it isn’t actually his quote. I’ve used it for 20 years but couldn’t tell you ...

Five years ago the editors of IndustryWeek invited a stock analyst to come in and tell us how his company identifies value when evaluating manufacturing companies. He was a very nice man, and we sent ...