Of all things proverbially so in mechanics the supreme excellence is simplicity – James Watt.

New artificial heart keeps you alive without a pulse | MNN – Mother Nature Network.

Quoting from the article

“Operate battery-free on minute amounts of electricity that can be harvested from the pulse of a blood vessel, a gentle breeze, or the motions of a person walking. It is entirely possible to drive the devices by scavenging energy from sources in the environment such as gentle airflow, vibration, sonic wave, solar, chemical, and/or thermal energy,”

Quoting from the site

“University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality low-cost global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university-level studies within reach of millions of people across the world. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education.”

This will be the trend in the future of education

I live in Fort Lauderdale and did not know of this company to date.

Check out their web site. It is awesome

http://www.pancreum.com/

Every day there are people out there who are dreaming up and building medical devices to benefit mankind.

All that is needs is venture capital to go the next step.

• The visionaries who dream great ideas and takes the concept to a prototype
• The pragmatists who take it to market

Why do a Time Study when you can Kaizen with the Team

I don’t think any one likes to be timed or watched.

I wonder whether real Black Belts ever ask for time studies

Then how do you do the measure in DMAIC?

I call it self measurement

Without trust there can be no progress

ASQ is a great place to browse and learn. The link above is a concise write up of the power of a Pareto Chart and how the same can be generated in Excel. You could do it with Minitab as well.

My first brush with a Pareto chart was in 2001

My assignment for the week was to increase the yield of a packaging line with a major manufacturer of diabetes bio-sensors.

I walked the line, talked to the operators and talked to one of the engineers

Here is the low down

• The operators maintained a very clear record of the down time and frequency
• The data was collected and stored in a database

Well, time for some good old Biomimicry

Next step is embedded Oriental Hornets in the human body

Is that a medical device or what?

One step closer to a personal electric vehicle you can take anywhere.

• Maybe a city without roads with your Puffin taking off from the terrace
• Maybe even with an Automatic pilot so that you can be on your iPad as you travel
• Your local sheriff would own one
• So would your vermin exterminator
• Who knows, in India sabji wallahs may hover over your windows in a high rise selling vegetables
• The puffin may spawn new designs in architecture
• Your personal grand canyon adventure on a Puffin.
• Your mail man, Fedex man and friendly UPS man may start using it too
• Dream on