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Six Sigma Practitioner Announces Indian Expansion
Tue, 01/31/2006 - 22:00
LASON India, a worldwide provider of business-process outsourcing and a leading Indian Six Sigma practitioner, will add 1,600 new jobs to support significant business growth. LASON India was formed in 1992 and currently employs 6,600 people… U.S. Navy Awards Major Six Sigma Training Contract
Tue, 01/31/2006 - 22:00
The U.S. Navy recently contracted a small Connecticut business to provide upward of $96 million worth of Six Sigma, theory of constraints and lean training within the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE). The training is part of the NAE’s… Cognex to Host Machine Vision Seminars At No Cost
Mon, 01/30/2006 - 22:00
Cognex Corp. recently announced a series of machine-vision seminars for manufacturing professionals. The half-day events are complimentary and will demonstrate how vision sensors perform automated inspection tasks in the automotive,… RFID on the Rise
Mon, 01/30/2006 - 22:00
Quality, meet RFID; RFID, meet quality. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) will be an ever larger force in the quality industry, according to a newly released report. Many retail operations (chief among them Wal-Mart) mandate the use of… NQI to Host Annual Networking Dinner
Mon, 01/30/2006 - 22:00
Canada’s National Quality Institute will host its 8th annual Networking Dinner on April 20 in Toronto. The dinner has grown to become one of Canada’s premier business-networking events, and upward of 300 senior business executives and CEOs are… New Book Emphasizes Customer Focus
Mon, 01/30/2006 - 22:00
A recently released book reminds readers that the key to keeping any business in high gear is to ensure that its customers are satisfied. Becoming a Customer-Focused Organization (Paton Press, 2006), by Craig Cochran, includes many insights… Quality Circles Still Big in India
Mon, 01/30/2006 - 22:00
Nearly 2,700 students from all over the world attended the eighth-annual International Convention on Student’s Quality Control Circles in India in December 2005. The event, which was organized by the World Council for Total Quality and Excellence… Pharmaceutical Researcher Receives Award
Tue, 01/24/2006 - 22:00
A pharmaceutical researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently received an award from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Brian F. McBride, a research fellow in Vanderbilt’s Division of Clinical Pharmacology, was… Endocare Agrees to Sell Timm Medical Unit
Tue, 01/24/2006 - 22:00
Endocare Inc. has agreed to sell its wholly owned stock in Timm Medical Technologies Inc. to Plethora Solutions Holdings PLC. Plethora Solutions Holdings, a U.K.-based specialty pharmaceutical company that develops products for the treatment of… CeTaQ Announces MCA Testing Capability
Tue, 01/24/2006 - 22:00
CeTaQ Americas recently started offering machine-capability analysis testing for lasers used in medical and biomedical device manufacturing. The test methodology measures the width of laser cuts as well as beam size and consistency, comparing…