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Quality Digest Ph.: (530) 893–4095 Your information resource for a changing quality industry
Quality Digest (sometimes abbreviated as QD) is an online news and information source owned by QCI International that covers an array of quality management topics, including standards, compliance, metrology, Six Sigma, problem solving, employee participation, customer service, and lean. Originally a monthly print magazine, it ceased printing in 2009 in favor of online platforms. QCI International was founded in 1980 by Donald Dewar, one of the pioneers of the early quality movement in the United States. Dewar promoted quality circles to U.S. businesses. As part of that effort, he published Quality Circle Digest, which later became Quality Digest. Today, Quality Digest delivers feature articles and news on the quality industry via our e-newsletter Quality Digest and on our website www.qualitydigest.com. Our website receives more than 1 million page views annually, where users can find editorial content, live broadcasts, videos, and on-demand webinars presented by industry experts. The website also contains all editorial content from print editions Quality Digest magazine from August 1995 to June 2009. Offices are located in Chico, California. HistoryDuring the late 1970s Don Dewar, an engineer with Lockheed, traveled to Japan. He started Quality Circles Institute to teach U.S. businesses about quality circles, an employee problem-solving methodology that was helping Japanese industry compete. An adjunct of that was Quality Circle Digest, a monthly subscription publication. The first issue was published in 1981. Publication timeline1981 First issue published under the title Quality Circle Digest. The magazine was funded only by subscriptions to avoid the need for advertisers. OrganizationQuality Digest is among the related holdings of Millennium360, a media organization that includes Quality Digest, Kaizen Online, and TechnorazziLive. ContentQuality Digest focuses on topics related to manufacturing and management quality control. The industries covered started with manufacturing and migrated into the service industries, healthcare, food safety, and government. Products • Journal of the CMSC Media partnershipsIn 2005 the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), a professional organization dedicated to furthering the interests of professionals in the science of coordinate measurement, partnered with Quality Digest to provide media support for the CMS’ annual conference, publish its semiannual journal, and promote the coordinate metrology profession. Millennium 360 Inc.Quality Digest is part of the family of Millennium 360 Inc. Together we provide: • Live streaming video content, produced by our TechnorazziLIVE division. We produce live video broadcasts about tools and best practices that our audience needs, enabling them to write in during the broadcast and interact with experts. QualityDigestLive, our weekly web TV show, presents who and what is making the news in the world of quality. • Diverse content for a diverse readership. Our fully digital presence and technical mastery gives us the tools to serve the many niche audiences who fall under the quality umbrella. We offer information of high interest to each niche audience within our readership. • Training curriculum for you, your team, and your enterprise. Millennium 360's digital learning company provides a portal into training materials that directly parallel our editorial content. Millennium 360 is a media company for a new era, and Quality Digest is illuminating the path for quality professionals. |
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