Have you ever accidentally microwaved your face? No? You’ve never opened the microwave door while it was cooking and accidentally exposed your face to microwave energy? I know that you haven’t because ...

A few days ago, while working on an earlier draft of this article, I misspelled the word “factory” as “fcatory.” But the editor at IndustryWeek never knew it: the instant I made the mistake, a ...

Poka-yokes are mechanisms used to mistake-proof an entire process. Ideally, poka-yokes ensure that proper conditions exist before actually executing a process step, preventing defects from occurring ...