The Wireless Group of Anaren Inc. has launched a Cellular Machines product line.

For the past five years, the Pyhäsalmi mine in central Finland has been using passive high-frequency RFID tags to record when workers enter or leave a mine shaft. Since that time, says Kimmo Luukkonen, the mine's managing director, the technology has improved management's visibility into who is underground and when, and hence has increased its safety program's efficiency and accuracy. The company plans to expand that RFID solution to monitor who carries explosive detonators into the mine.

Once you have your lean journey underway, how do you sustain it? How do you build it into the bricks and mortar, and the DNA, of the organization? We no longer want lean to be its own thing; we want it integrated into the organization.

Lean is a never-ending process, says Mike Buseman, chief global logistics and operations officer with Avnet Inc. He explains how the company operates in a state of continuous improvement.

DB Schenker has partnered with TÜV Rheinland, a solar industry testing company, to develop a new system for detecting transit damage sustained by photovoltaic modules.

Tecsys Inc. has introduced Visual Metrics Performance Measurement Suite, a tool that provides performance analytics and dashboards for the organization's entire supply chain.

Greg Schlegel, adjunct professor at Lehigh University, provides a sneak peak at his new book on the topic of end-to-end supply-chain risk management.