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Maintaining a clean environment is critical for assembling medical devices.

After years of waiting in the wings, the time has come for laser welding of thermoplastics in the medical sector.

Making the transition to the defense sector is tough, but not impossible.

Carbon dioxide found popularity as a refrigerant for comfort cooling in the 1920s, before being replaced by more convenient CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) in the 1930s and then HFCs (hydroflurocarbons) in the 1990s. But with the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty requiring industrialized nations to lower their collective greenhouse gases 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012, carbon dioxide has come back into the limelight as a hope for a safe and effective refrigerant replacement.

General Motors Corp. has agreed to sell its Electro-Motive Division to an investor group led by Greenbriar Equity Group LLC (Rye, NY) and Berkshire Partners LLC (Boston).

Low-cost production is only one piece of a complex puzzle.

In lean manufacturing, any activity that does not add value to an assembly is waste.

Thomas Built Buses Inc. (High Point, NC) has been building school buses for over 60 years. Today it is the largest school bus manufacturer in the United States, and its Saf-T-Liner C2 one of the most advanced buses in the world.

Never forget: No matter what technical tools you use for continuous improvement, they always require change, which must be implemented with and through the people of your organization.