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UT CIS Ready to Connect Manufacturers to Powerful Material Evaluation Equipment

  The University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services signed a contract this month with the UT Center for Materials Processing.  Now small manufacturers can access essential technologies for nondestructive evaluation of…

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Have you Mapped Your Value Streams?

An often overlooked and underutilized lean tool is the value stream map (VSM). In simple terms, the VSM provides a “30,000-foot view” of the flow of goods from supplier to customer through your organization. The primary purpose…

Giving Your Team Wings (Even if they don’t play basketball)

Written by Tim Waldo and originally posted on his LinkedIn Blog Watching players on a basketball team jumping into the air doesn’t sound all that amazing nor the least bit inspiring. After all, that’s sort of what they do.…

Quality Core Tools – Not Just for Automotive

The “Quality Core Tools” are considered a standard throughout the automotive industry but the tools are not just for automotive companies. The five tools that are used throughout a product’s lifecycle, from development to…

Customer Highlight | White Oak Stave LLC

Waymon Scroggs looks at his job as “more of a craft, than it is a vocation.”   Scroggs is plant manager of White Oak Stave, LLC., a sawmill business in Medon, Tenn. that has operated since 1962. In 2004, it was bought by…