Two articles undertook prospective analyses to measure the welfare effects of the proposed IP clauses in the Korea-United States (KORUS) FTA [29] and the impact of KORUS on the timely availability of new medicines in Korea [30]. The findings suggest that patent term extension and patent linka...
What Does Ppk Mean? Ppk stands for Process Performance Index, which is a statistical measure used to evaluate the performance of a process in manufacturing. How is Ppk calculated? Ppk is calculated by taking the minimum of two values: either the difference between the process mean and the spec...
New electronic signature requirements for medical device manufacturers have led to the release of a number of new software packages, including the release of a statistical process control (SPC) package that meets the standard while offering statistical analysis and enhanced lot geneology. Medical device...
This process allows Statistical Process Control (SPC) to monitor production trends so defects can be caught early on. This ensures that costs remain low and quality does not suffer. In particular, the ETO process is widely used in the following areas. Defence Commercial HVAC equipment Industrial...
Powderized metal has even been used to make medical devices. When metal dust is used for 3D printing, the process allows for fewer parts in the finished product. For example, 3D printers have produced rocket injectors that consist of just two parts, whereas a similar device welded in the ...
First off, to be able to celebrate Armed Forces Day in the Lone Star State one must know the history of how it came about. It was August 31st, 1949 when the Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of a new holiday Armed Forces Day. ...
Focus group participants’ mean age was 46.6, almost all identified as White (92%), and most had a college degree (77%). About half of the participants had a child under age ten (46%). One participant was unemployed, and all others were employed full or part-time. More than half ...
The Ride of a Lifetime,by Bob Iger. This is one of the best business books I’ve read in several years. Iger does a terrific job explaining what it’s really like to be the CEO of a large company. Whether you’re looking for business insights or just an entertaining read, I think...
In this video, sponsored by HP, David Zwang talks to Chris Henderson, President of Digital Labels. Henderson and his partner founded the company in 2010 with an HP Indigo 6000 and has added capacity—predominantly more HP Indigos—in the years since. Digital Labels also does some flexible pac...
By the measure of “What works in generating change,” it seems that an objective review of evidence would say that all agile techniques and frameworks have very limited proof of successful outcomes, regardless of which one you inspect. I mean real change, not the “we stood up x agile tea...