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Feature Article
 | May 10, 2012

The Connection Between Change Management and Risk Management

Management of change is a concept that has been around for more than 25 years.
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Feature Article
 | May 10, 2012

Changes to Change Management

A brief timeline in Change Management evolution since the 1980s.
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Column
 | March 7, 2012

Building Quality Management into Operational Excellence

Initiatives around Operational Excellence have been internally focused on building a culture of continuous improvement and improving manufacturing processes with Lean techniques.
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Column
 | February 23, 2012

Standard Costs Are Not Dirty Words

Manufacturing and operational metrics are often available in real time; operations management places a high priority on immediate response and preventative actions to avoid failures from diminished pe
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Product
 | January 30, 2012

Optical Coordinate Measuring Machine for Quality Control

Boulder Imaging, Inc., a leading imaging solutions company for machine vision applications, is releasing a new version of its Benchmark in- or off-line optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM).
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Laser Quality Plasma Cutting
Case Application
 | January 25, 2012

Precise Control for Complex Fabrication

Metal fabricator Waymatic achieves laser-level accuracy with a punch plasma machine using Sigma-5 servos and controllers and EtherCAT networking (CONTAINS VIDEO).
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Product
 | January 21, 2012

Model-Adaptive Combustion Optimization System

Updated software solution reduces power-plant emissions and facilitates compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR).
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Column
 | December 22, 2011

Top Technology Trends for 2012 That Will Affect the Automation Team

LNS Research is establishing benchmarks in key areas of interest to industrial automation, manufacturing line-of-business and corporate information technology executives.
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Case Application
 | July 1, 2011

Automated Testing Safeguards Quality

Whether to protect luxury brands or human life, automated testing is essential to ensuring product quality.
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