#437 – DESIGNING A BETTER YOU – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs – Apple Co-Founder

The objective of any self improvement book  is to take charge and design a better,stronger, and more resilient you. Better can be whatever you dream or want of yourself.

Intentional Self-Management means working on yourself continually. It can be 1% improvement daily. It can be lifelong upskilling. It can be daily meditation or mindfulness. As an engineer, we like the metaphor that you are designing and developing your Intentional Self-Management and Brand You Pivot practices. Continue reading

#436 – MINIMALIZED PACKAGING DESIGNS – LAN ANH NU TON PH.D.

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For decades, marketers of consumer goods designed highly adorned packages, deploying bold colors, snazzy text, cartoons and illustrations to seize the attention of shoppers. Conventional wisdom held that with thousands of products competing against one another in the aisles of big box stores and supermarkets, companies needed to do everything in their power to make their products stand out. Continue reading

#432 – AUSTRALIAN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RISK MANAGEMENT – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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The Commonwealth of Australia just issued its Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program (CIRMP) requirements. (1) Covered entities have until August 18, 2023, to start the implementation process. This piece looks at the CIRMP requirements. Continue reading

#426 – GETTING STARTED LEARNING RELIABILITY ENGINEERING – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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Or, how to master the body of knowledge and be an effective reliability engineer.

Yes, there is a lot to know concerning reliability engineering. You should have a firm grasp of statistics, modeling, laboratory and experimental procedures, failure analysis skills, and more. Continue reading