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The Toyota Development process has gained a reputation of being a way to supercharge and drastically speed up product development. In this short podcast Michael Kennedy, one of the few experts on Toyota Development methods, describes the biggest problems American firms have in adopting these practices, whether Toyota Development is better than concurrent engineering, and how to go at implementing these lean development practices. Length, approximately 5 minutes.

The original job of wires and cables was to transport electrical signals from Point A to Point B. Thinking cables today not only carry those signals between the points, but can also provide emphasis, compensation, translation, and conversion of the signal from one form to another. Joe Iamartino from C&M Corp. looks at the things thinking cables do today and outlines some future possibilities. Length, approximately 5 Minutes.