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2016 Deming Prize Winners

Deming Institute

Maruwa Electronic & Chemical (Japan). Here is a blog post on a 2006 visit to the Toyota Motor Kyushu plant by Mike Wroblewski (read the comments on the post also). Naotake Okubo, Executive Advisor, Sekisui Chemical. The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2016 Deming Prize winners.

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Daylight Savings Time Observations: We Tend to Go Negative

The Recovering Engineer

Here in Indiana, we just started observing Daylight Saving Time in 2006. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. So, it is still fairly well talked about when the time change happens. And, it seems to me, almost all of the talk is towards the negative.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010.