Driving Quality Transformation & Organizational Change

Posted by on Aug 6, 2025 in Industrial Design Engineering | 0 comments

Understanding Organizational Change

Strategic Change

Strategic change is broad in scope and stems from strategic objectives, which are generally externally focused and relate to significant customer, market, product/service, or technological opportunities and challenges. It rolls into plans and policy, broader, relating to markets.

Process Change

Process change is narrow in scope and deals with the operations of an organization. An accumulation of continuously improving process changes can lead to positive

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Organizational Transformation: Strategies for Business Excellence

Posted by on Jun 25, 2025 in Industrial Design Engineering | 0 comments

Change Management Fundamentals

Change Management Defined

A collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change. Quality improvement can be unsuccessful if change isn’t managed effectively.

Reasons for Organizational Change

  • Globalization and constant innovation of technology lead to a constantly evolving business environment.
  • Phenomena like social media and mobile adaptability revolutionize business, increasing the need
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Secure Remote PLC Maintenance & M2M Communication Platform

Posted by on Apr 2, 2025 in Industrial Design Engineering | 0 comments

Extensive Remote Services for PLCs

For remote maintenance of programmable logic controllers, the internet is of prime importance. First priority was the access for the service experts of the machine manufacturer for troubleshooting. However, a modern remote service platform offers much more possibilities than pure connection management, thanks to web-based services for data acquisition, alarming, remote monitoring, and M2M communication.
The new remote service platform mbCONNECT24 V2.1 not only provides
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Optical, Electron, and Scanning Probe Microscopy: A Technical Deep Dive

Posted by on Jan 21, 2025 in Industrial Design Engineering | 0 comments

Timeline of Microscopy Development

  • 17th Century: Optical microscope
  • 1884: Henry Le Chatelier develops the metallographic microscope
  • 1931/1933: Transmission electron microscope (TEM)
  • 1942, 1950: Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
  • 1981: Scanning tunneling microscope (STM)
  • 1986: Atomic force microscope (AFM)

Resolution in Microscopy

Optical microscopes have a resolution in the micrometer (μm) range, while electron and scanning probe microscopes achieve nanometer (nm) resolution.

Optical Microscopy

Rays passing

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