For engineers and operations managers seeking to improve production performance, selecting the right throughput metrics is critical. This article outlines practical measurement approaches to help ...

Every person and organization has some familiarity with performance metrics and reporting, yet how to take that experience and apply it to asset management is not straightforward. Looking at industry ...

When a manager can accurately measure his organization's performance, he is able to identify deficiencies in the organization and correct them. When the deficiencies are dealt with efficiently, then ...

Six Sigma provides a framework for measuring process performance and making improvements to better meet customer needs. Although full-scale Six Sigma implementations are usually limited to large ...

Few concepts have swept public-administration circles like performance management has. But as the saying goes, you can't manage what you don't measure. While many governments say they're committed to ...

This article was originally published by RFID Update. November 9, 2006—The growth of RFID implementation activity in areas such as asset management and tracking and maintenance, repair and overhaul ...

As they say, you manage what you measure. Accordingly, an entire industry has developed around performance measurement and performance management. Popular tools include the Balanced Scorecard, ...

Patients deserve transparent measures of quality in healthcare, but a lack of standards and auditing for these measures can do more to misinform consumers than guide their choices, according to ...

In the technology industry, competition remains fierce for talent. As companies struggle to usher in top talent, some turn to outsourced tech firms and independent contractors to get work completed.

The committee developed an agenda for basic research to maximize the efficiency, accuracy, and effective use of human capability measurement in the military’s selection and initial occupational ...

Real-time ash density measurement improves recovery boiler performance by enabling precise process control, and more stable ...