The article deals with the use of SPC tools to manage and improve machining process - drilling furniture elements. content is such as basic statistical parameters, box plot, histogram, classic special control charts, capability indicators assess drill-ing indicate areas improve. indicates power in woodwork using Statistica program from TIBCO Software Inc. this area. bring a lot important useful...

This paper investigates how making activities and participation in makerspaces supports the wellbeing empowerment of women, particularly domains that are typically male-dominated. We spent six months undertaking participant observations a women-only makerspace runs workshops aimed at teaching women skills using power tools woodwork. conducted contextual interviews with 12 workshop attendees as ...

Recent years have seen remarkable advances in the life sciences, including increasing technical capacities to reproduce, manipulate and even replace living nature with the products of human artefact. These developments raise important questions about our understanding of that which we call ‘life’. If, as science suggests, there is in principle no difficulty in engineering the living world in th...