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New ISO Award Honors Standards Education
Tue, 01/09/2007 - 22:00
The International Organization of Standardization recently created the ISO Award for Higher Education in Standardization, which will be presented for the first time at the ISO General Assembly in Geneva in September.
The award is designed to support… Two Years for ISO/IEC 17021 Transition
Tue, 01/09/2007 - 22:00
Certification bodies around the world have until Sept. 15, 2008 to implement ISO/IEC 17021:2006, the new standard designed to increase confidence in management system certification. The International Accreditation Forum set the deadline in… Nanotechnology Gets Standardized Vocabulary
Tue, 01/09/2007 - 22:00
A private standards-developing organization recently published the first known consensus-based standard defining a common technical language for nanotechnology. ASTM International’s ASTM E2456-06, “Standard terminology relating to… Improving Organizational Processes
Mon, 01/08/2007 - 22:00
EFQM will present a workshop March 5 and 6 dealing with best practice methods of process improvement, assessing the effectiveness of an organization’s process improvement approach and how these approaches can fit into different… Bad Data Plagues Businesses
Mon, 01/08/2007 - 22:00
Eighty-three percent of organizations contacted suffer from problems caused by poor master data, according to “Master Data Management: Consensus-Driven Data Definitions for Cross-Application Consistency,” a report issued by The Data… COLA’s Approval Renewed
Mon, 01/08/2007 - 22:00
COLA, a clinical laboratory education and consultation accreditation organization, recently received renewed approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to accredit laboratories to meet requirements set by the… Siemens Buys Bayer Healthcare
Mon, 01/08/2007 - 22:00
Siemens Medical Solutions recently completed the EUR 4.2 billion ($5.5 billion) acquisition of Bayer Healthcare’s diagnostic division and merged it with Diagnostic Products Corp., creating Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics.The new… Bad Data Plagues Businesses
Mon, 01/08/2007 - 22:00
Eighty-three percent of organizations contacted suffer from problems caused by poor master data, according to “Master Data Management: Consensus-Driven Data Definitions for Cross-Application Consistency,” a report issued by The Data… Turkish Society for Quality Hosts Annual Conference
Tue, 01/02/2007 - 22:00
The Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer) held its 15th Annual Quality Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, in late November. More than 2,200 quality professionals attended the three-day event, including Grace Duffy, vice president of the American… New Software for Project Tracking
Tue, 01/02/2007 - 22:00
MoreSteam.com recently released software that’s designed to track lean Six Sigma projects. TRACtion is a Web-based interactive project management tool that helps lean Six Sigma teams reduce project cycle time through enhanced communication,…