Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
On April 1 Nikon announced that it had formed Nikon Metrology Inc., a new company that combines Nikon Instruments Inc. (Nikon’s microscopy and digital imaging arm business) with the former Metris...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Citing excess capacity and efficiency as the key reasons, Hexagon Metrology is closing its plant in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. During the past year, the plant, which assembled Sheffield brand products...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
(Hexagon Metrology: London) -- Following on its recent acquisition of Mahr Multisensor and further expanding its already large footprint in the international metrology market, Hexagon has recently...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
On Dec. 4, a California-based consumer watchdog group announced that testing performed by them on the enormously popular Zhu Zhu Pets showed that levels of the heavy metal antimony were in excess of...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has bought a car from a dealership, but according to the recently released J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) Study, 21...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
In late November management system registrars DNV and Intertek announced that they were in discussions regarding a potential to unite their business assurance activities. According to sources at DNV...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
I recently got a phone call from one of our service providers asking me to participate in a short survey to assess their service quality. This provider handles part of our business infrastructure...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
On October 8, the federal government arrested three people in Southern California on suspicion of selling counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) used in the manufacture of electronic devices to the U...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
All the talk of health care reform has resulted in many hospitals turning to lean Six Sigma to help improve efficiency and aid in cost cutting. However, health care efficiency expert Ron Wince...
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
In much the same way the Works Progress Administration of the Great Depression put millions of Americans back to work, there is great hope that green jobs will do the same during these current...
