The move to standardize processes has gone overboard, say M. Eric Johnson and Joseph M. Hall in this month’s Harvard Business Review. Some processes, they argue, are more akin to art than science and ...

To produce standards of high quality and integrity, a standards organization must have a repeatable, documented, proven process. The IEEE Standards Association is a fine example of possessing such a ...

OASIS has recently conferred official "standards" status on WS-Notification, which provides a standardized way for one Web service or other entity to disseminate information to another set of Web ...

On the face of it, standardization and improvement may be viewed as extreme opposites. We look at the benefits of standardization. Some standardization benefits are specific to lean. Breaking down ...

Getting an IEEE standard approved isn't for the faint of heart. Karen Bartleson takes you on a guided tour of the procedures. The production of formal, accredited standards has to be a repeatable ...

Editor's note: This article is part 2 in a series on Engineeringa Competitive Test Strategy. See part 1, “Do you know your true cost of test?” Part 3, “How do you treat test like a product?” will ...

SEMI spoke with Udo Gómez, senior vice president at Robert Bosch GmbH, about MEMS technology requirements relative to standard IC design and manufacturing. Gómez highlighted solutions to challenges of ...

How does a standard get created? A lot of hard work and balancing different opinions can be frustrating, but that communication is vital. One of the major themes of DVCon this year was the standard ...

In a recent National Security Memo (NSM-10), the White House acknowledged the need for immediacy in addressing the threat of quantum computers to our current cryptographic systems and mandated ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—The initial documents defining the Catena control plane standard were introduced June 1-3 in Tokyo at Imagica SMPTE during the society’s Technology Committee meetings, the Society ...