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Athenée Mastrangelo
Your clients are your No. 1 priority, right? So how are you managing their information and your relationship with them? Do you have all their information stuffed in a shoebox, or do you have an effective contact relationship management (CRM) system? Maybe you’re somewhere in between.
The…
Michelle LaBrosse
Some of us are natural-born planners. We plan out every moment of our lives in detail, from what we will be doing on the weekend to how many children we want and what their names will be, to how our career will progress—in detail.
Others of us are doers and are more spontaneous, nervous if too many…
Kari Miller
As our product and service value chains expand globally, OEMs in various industries are outsourcing more of their products and services instead of keeping them in house. This has heightened the need for clear communication and managing supplier relationships to ensure that the quality of the…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has launched the Sheffield 4.5.4 SF, a new line of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) built for the shop floor and designed to withstand harsh manufacturing environments.
The SF series introduces a variety of evolutionary advancements based on…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo: Oakland, CA) -- Mettler-Toledo, a global manufacturer and distributor of premium pipetting instruments and consumables, has released its Rainin AutoRep S manual repeater pipette. This new lightweight, positive displacement repeater pipette gives laboratory researchers and…
MasterControl Inc.
(MasterControl: Salt Lake City) -- MasterControl has announced two two-day workshops for corrective and preventive action (CAPA) and audit management training. The CAPA workshop will be held June 14–15, 2012, and the audit management workshop will be held June 16-17, 2012. Both events will be in…
LMI Technologies Inc.
(LMI: Vancouver, Canada) -- LMI Technologies, a global leader in 3-D laser measurement and control sensor technology, has launched upgraded firmware for its line of Gocator 3-D smart sensors. Release 3.3 expands Gocator’s built-in tools with new support for advanced measurements, improved scripting…
Capture 3D
(Capture 3D: Costa Mesa, CA) -- Capture 3D’s fifth biannual Measurement Innovation Conference will be held Aug. 21–23, 2012, in Costa Mesa, California. This educational event focuses on how companies are improving their design, production, and manufacturing with innovative 3-D measurement…
Akhilesh Gulati
The IT department of a school district supported itself by providing application development, database maintenance, training, and other services to its internal clients, although no money exchanged hands. The school’s outreach unit, which provided training and education to local organizations, also…
Connecticut Spring and Stamping
For one Connecticut manufacturer of close-tolerance, precision-stamped and coiled metal parts, an eight-year journey to provide its customers with higher precision parts from progressive tools has reached a happy ending. In-house CNC machining has allowed it to stamp parts at a very low cost, and…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex, a global supplier of machine vision and industrial ID systems, will host a series of complimentary half-day seminars for logistics professionals. The new “Image-Based Barcode Readers Transforming the Logistics Industry” events, the first of which was held May 22,…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies, a global leader for 3-D measurement technology, has released CAM2 Gage 2.2. It is the latest software update for the company’s leading lines of portable measurement solutions, the FaroArm and FARO Gage. New features such as enhanced QuickTools, barcode…
ISPE
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) – The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) continued its mission to provide a neutral ground for pharmaceutical industry professionals and regulators to discuss industry issues at ISPE affiliate meetings in Japan and China last month. The events brought…
Global Monitoring
(Global Monitoring: Springfield, PA) -- Global Monitoring offers the Messenger GMU8120 Remote Monitoring Unit for remote monitoring and control of groundwater remediation systems that are often unattended and function without operator assistance. In addition to environmental applications, the…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The need for competent leadership remains one of the most pressing issues facing organizations. Introducing a powerful technique to help readers become better decision makers, The Right Choice: Using Theory of Constraints for Effective Leadership, by Ted…
Juran
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- The Juran Healthcare team had two improvement project presentations accepted for the WCBF 11th Annual Lean, Six Sigma, and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit, which took place in New Orleans, May 15–18, 2012. The project presentations were an example of the…
Matthew E. May
Five years ago, at noon on May 7, 2007, I sat in the canteen at the Los Angeles Policy Academy in Elysian Park, just north of downtown Los Angeles, awaiting the arrival of Captain Robert S. Hauck, then second in command of the West Los Angeles Bureau.
Some sort of ceremony had just concluded, and I…
Northwestern University
(Northwestern University: Evanston, IL) -- To help professionals succeed in the growing field of regulatory compliance, Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies now offers a master of science in regulatory compliance (MSRC) program.
Career opportunities in regulatory compliance are…
Jeff Dewar, Kristine Bammert
There is a remarkable quality movement afoot centered in South Asia with tentacles that reach to the United States, Europe, and Africa.
Starting in primary school and extending throughout high school, students are introduced to the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, Philip Crosby,…
Sologic
(Sologic: Midland, MI) -- The ASQ Learning Institute now offers Sologic’s eRCA Fundamentals, a new root cause analysis e-learning curriculum that builds foundational root cause analysis (RCA) problem-solving skills, was designed by an award-winning e-learning development firm, and is SCORM- and…
Davis Balestracci
“I’m shocked... shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”
—Casablanca’s Captain Renault, as he’s closing down Rick’s Cafe... while being handed his gambling winnings
I saw an abstract of a recent talk by several “experts” who have been very active selling (expensive) improvement…
Kevin Rudy
This past week, History premiered a new show called the United Stats of America. No, that’s not a typo. It’s a show hosted by twin brothers who are both stand-up comedians and obsessed with statistics.
Since I’m also obsessed with statistics (I’m still working on the stand-up comedy part), I…
Knowledge at Wharton
If loyalty is defined as being faithful to a cause, ideal, custom, institution or product, then there seems to be a certain amount of infidelity in the workplace these days.
Consider some recent studies: MetLife’s 10th annual survey of employee benefits, trends and attitudes released in March 2012…
ECi Software Solutions
(ECi: Fort Worth, TX) -- ECi Software Solutions, a leader in industry-specific information technology solutions, has launched an online resource for its manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, M1. The site can be accessed here. In addition to providing information on ERP products…
MicroRidge Systems Inc.
(MicroRidge: Sunriver, OR) -- MicroRidge Systems will highlight its reliable, flexible and easy-to-use MobileCollect wireless measurement technology at the 2012 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) being held Sept. 10–15, 2012 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. MicroRidge can be found in…