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...administrative officer. A chemical engineer, Brown spent much of his career in manufacturing, ultimately developing a lean production system in 1997 that was based on Toyota's acclaimed continuous-improvement approach. He dubbed it the Kodak Operating System. KOS forces managers to look at everything that happens in a plant in terms of waste--waste of time, waste of space and so on. They then analyze every step in a process--down to the hand movements of assembly-line workers--to look for a better way. Everything goes that does not "create value for the customer," says Brown...
DIED. HORACE HAGEDORN, 89, canny entrepreneur who turned the blue-crystal plant fertilizer Miracle-Gro, a staple of suburban backyards in postwar America, into the world's top-selling plant food; in Sands Point...
...Mahadevan has a way of looking at the world that is just really unique. He’s written a beautiful story about a fascinating event of a plant,” said Howard A. Stone, Joseph professor of engineering and applied mathematics...
Mahadevan had to stimulate the same hair twice within a 10-15 second time frame in order to get the plant to shut...
This precautionary measure helps the plant prevent a “false alarm,” an unnecessary closing due to a touch such as that of a falling leaf, rather than an insect, he explained...