Construction safety traditionally focuses on the worker for reduction of accidents and improvement of outcomes. Though the worker, who is at the "sharp edge," performs the final act resulting in an ...

Poka yoke, a Japanese term used in the Toyota Production System meaning mistake-proofing or error-proofing, applies to the role discrete sensors now play in quality control, says Tom Rosenberg, ...

Since the first industrial revolution, improving productivity has been a major goal for most manufacturing operations. Today, in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, that hasn’t changed.

What is it that contractors are giving away by not doing the work right the first time? Is it a floor, an HVAC system or even a whole building? Studies and logic prove that doing something right the ...

A mechanically adjustable sensing cutoff point allows a family of laser sensors to detect small objects with relatively low reflectivity while ignoring background objects immediately behind the set ...

Mistake (error) proofing is a powerful tool adopted by the manufacturing industry to increase the quality of its products, improve efficiency, and reduce cost. Construction is also a production ...