#410 – INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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How many incidents, hazards and near misses does your organisation experience in a year? Failing to manage and resolve incidents not only puts your employees’ well-being at risk but also the future of your organisation. In this article, we will examine 10 common signs that indicate you need a better incident reporting process, we share the key benefits of bringing your incident management process online, and we explore the technology available to build a best-practice framework for incident reporting. Continue reading

#410 – ARE ROBOTS (AI) COMING FOR KID’S JOB – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Are Robots Coming for Your Job? ‘Eventually, Yes’.
Headline of N.Y. Times Article 

Would you like to see your favorite actor in a movie, TV program, or Netflix? Or, would a computer-generated facsimile of a similar actor work just as well for you? Or, at what point is the quality and illusion of reality good enough to entertain you? Continue reading

#410 – MANUFACTURING IS FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND SERVE CUSTOMERS – SARAH DVORAK

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Sarah Dvorak didn’t originally plan on a career in manufacturing, but her first career was not a good fit. Luckily, the opportunity to be part of a volunteer focus team brainstorming ways to reduce scrap and rework at a manufacturing plant led her in a new direction, and she’s been in manufacturing ever since. Continue reading

#410 – AI ISN’T CLOSE TO BEING SENTIENT – NIR EISIKOVITS

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ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to explaining competing theories about the nature of evil.

The technology’s uncanny writing ability has surfaced some old questions – until recently relegated to the realm of science fiction – about the possibility of machines becoming conscious, self-aware or sentient. Continue reading

#409 – INTRODUCTION TO DERATING – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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Derating is the selection of components and materials according to a set of standardized safety-margin definitions.

It is used by design engineers to ensure the selected elements of the design do not experience performance problems due to overstress conditions. Continue reading