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In the past, most operations managers used the income statement in managing their businesses, and they weren’t too concerned about inventory.

Head-up display (HUD) technology is coming soon to a car near you.

The first law of thermodynamics simply says you can’t get something for nothing. It’s universally applicable; never fails.

Pneumatic cylinders are the basis for linear motion throughout most automated assembly systems.

AB Electrolux (Stockholm, Sweden) recently unveiled what it claims is the first automatic vacuum cleaner in the world for domestic applications.

Fashion may never be the same again. Within 5 years, cyber visors, e-vests, memory glasses, wrist computers and other electronic devices are expected to be as much a part of the fashion scene as jewelry or neckties are today.

Iolon (San Jose, CA) manufactures tunable optical devices for intelligent optical networks.

When implementing either lean manufacturing or Six Sigma, companies often find that reaping the low-hanging fruit is easy, while plantwide improvements are difficult.

Walter Alexander Ltd., the world’s largest builder of double-decker bus bodies, is using Radan’s (Bath, England) computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software to manufacture the ALX range of single- and double-decker buses.