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New Standard for Self-Ballasted Mercury Lamps
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 22:00
(NEMA: Rosslyn, Virginia) -- The National Electrical Manufacturers Association, on behalf of the American National Standard Lighting Group, has published ANSI_ANSLG C78.45-2007, “American National Standard for Electric Lamps—Self-Ballasted… ANSI Relaunches Electronic Standards Store
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 22:00
(ANSI: New York) --The American National Standards Institute has announced the relaunch of its electronic Standards Store (eSS), a Web site for the purchase and download of U.S. and other national, regional or international standards. The eSS… Seagate Hard Drive Wins NIST Certification
Mon, 08/06/2007 - 22:00
(Seagate: Scotts Valley, California) -- Seagate Technology recently announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified the advanced encryption standard (AES) encryption chip built into Seagate’s Momentus(R) 5400 FDE.2… NCQA’s Quality Compass Updated
Mon, 08/06/2007 - 22:00
(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently updated its online Quality Compass, the nation’s most widely used database of health-plan performance. Quality Compass includes NCQA accreditation, Health Plan Employer and… San Jose Schools to Get Solar Power
Mon, 08/06/2007 - 22:00
(San Jose Unified School District: San Jose, California) -- San Jose Unified School District has entered into a unique partnership with Chevron Energy Solutions and Bank of America to establish what is believed to be the largest solar power and… Middle Managers Are Obstacles to Lean
Tue, 07/31/2007 - 22:00
(LEI: Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- Middle management resistance to change is now the No. 1 obstacle to implementing lean production, according to a survey conducted by the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit management research center.… New Six Sigma Book
Tue, 07/31/2007 - 22:00
(Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey) -- Treasure Chest of Six Sigma Growth Methods, Tools, and Best Practices is a comprehensive how-to collection of Six Sigma tools, methodologies, and best practices. Lynne Hambleton covers the… Georgia Course Graduates Become Green Belts
Tue, 07/31/2007 - 22:00
Twenty-three soldiers, airmen, and civilian employees of the Georgia department of defense have graduated from the inaugural course of a hands-on, continuous process improvement program called lean Six Sigma (LSS). The graduates all earned their… 2007 Information and Data Quality Conference
Mon, 07/30/2007 - 22:00
(IAIDQ: Lutz, Florida) -- The International Association for Information and Data Quality recently announced its 2007 Information & Data Quality Conference to be held Sept. 24–27, 2007, at The Palms Resort in Las Vegas. Registration is now… Measures Assessing Resource-Use Highlight HEDIS 2008
Mon, 07/30/2007 - 22:00
(NCQA: Washington) -- Five new measures of health care effectiveness were recently added to HEDIS, the most definitive set of health care quality measures in the United States.Among the additions unveiled today by the National Committee for…
