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American College of Physicians ACP
(American College of Physicians: Philadelphia) -- Four organizations representing more than 350,000 primary care physicians have released joint Guidelines for Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition and Accreditation Programs. The new guidelines—created by the American Academy of…
Gartner
(Gartner Inc: Stamford, CT) -- Gartner Business Process Management (BPM) Summit, scheduled to take place April 27–29, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, is the largest, most comprehensive BPM conference in the industry. It’s the only BPM event that fully explores proven BPM…
SICK
(SICK Inc: Minneapolis) -- SICK Inc., a leading manufacturer of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, has launched the Inspector P30 positioning sensor. The Inspector P series offers a flexible method for part…
Pinpoint Laser Systems
(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems’ Transparent Receiver, which works with the company’s Microgage 2D line, allows a laser beam to pass clearly through it while making a precise position measurement for aligning machinery and equipment. The receiver is compact and…
Oscar Combs
Anyone involved with any type of management system has run across the term “preventive action.” It leaves many professionals scratching their head, wondering what a preventive action actually is. I must admit, the term and its concept can be quite confusing and abstract.
Webster’s dictionary…
CMSC
(Coordinate Metrology Society: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced the extension of its call for papers deadline to March 18. The organization has received a record number of abstract submissions…
Visual Workplace Inc.
(Visual Workplace: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc. has introduced FLOOR-Mark, a better alternative to tape and paint for marking floors and other areas of the workplace, quickly and easily. FLOOR-Mark is ideal for high-traffic areas. It features peel-and-stick backing for simple…
Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group
(Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group: Asheville, NC) -- America’s first instrumentation company, Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group, is proudly celebrating 175 years of manufacturing industrial instrumentation in 2011.
Originally founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1836 by James Foster, Jr., Palmer Wahl…
Leuze electronic
AMS 300i
(Leuze electronic: Hudson, MI) -- The AMS 300i distance measurement unit by Leuze Electronic Inc. can be used whenever position data of moving system components, such as in high-bay warehouses, are required. Its unique selection of industrial Ethernet, supplemented with all well-…
InfinityQS
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International Inc. has announced the launch of its new website, logo, and blog. The more user-friendly website enables visitors to quickly and easily navigate to find information that is most pertinent to them. The site provides a wealth of information…
Kaizen Institute
(Gemba Research LLC: Mukilteo, WA) -- Gemba Academy is celebrating its second anniversary and the release of its Leader Standard Work course by bringing back the most popular promotion Gemba Academy has ever done.
Specifically, between March 1 and March 31, anyone who purchases a six-month or a…
Kimberly Egan
It turns out that I am not the only one who has noticed that food regulation is sometimes a little, well, silly. The federal government recently “identified a mother lode of government waste and duplication” and decided that getting rid of it “could potentially save billions of tax dollars annually…
Angelo Lyall
The business world seems fascinated with the story of how Toyota “invented” lean manufacturing. In actuality, Toyota did not aim to create this heavily marketed tool kit that we call lean manufacturing; the company simply did things “The Toyota Way” as they put it. Unleashing the innovative…
Miriam Boudreaux
There’s no more vicious cycle than problems that constantly reoccur because there’s no time to stop and solve them correctly. Although we all would like this cycle to stop, managers can’t afford to let employees waste time with too much researching, and employees don’t always have the time…
Sam Pfeifle
With stakeholders that include the Palestinian National Authority, the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Authorities, it’s hard to overestimate the religious and political importance of the International Project for Survey, Study, Assessment,…
Indicate Technologies
(Indicate Technologies: Santa Clara, CA) -- Indicate Technologies Inc. and Greg Hetland, Ph.D., of the International Institute of GD&T present the popular Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) Seminar series, April 11–15, to be held at Indicate Technologies’ Santa Clara Showroom in…
Kistler
(Kistler Instrument Corp: Amherst, NY) -- Kistler, a global supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has introduced its Type 8763B triaxial accelerometer into North America. The Type 8763B is a miniature…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, offers a selection of handheld analytical instruments that is now among the industry’s most diverse, serving applications ranging from airport security and consumer-product testing to…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The creator of the triple-bottom-line concept is one of two featured keynote speakers at the first American Society for Quality (ASQ) Pathways to Social Responsibility Conference, June 16–17, in San Francisco. Also speaking is a noted expert in the integration of corporate…
AIA
(Automated Imaging Association: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Machine vision, a critical automation technology used for inspection, part tracking, robot guidance, and process control, will be featured at Automate 2011, to be held March 21–24, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
“Advances in machine vision have…
General Electric GE
The USM Vision innovative, ultrasonic weld inspection system, from the Inspection Technologies business of GE Measurement & Control Solutions, allows nonultrasonic trained specialists to gather reliable and accurate pipe-weld inspection data, for subsequent remote assessment by a suitably…
The average automobile has more than 80 dynamic seals that can fail at any given time, according to the Institute for Measurement and Sensor-Technology's paper, "Second Generation Lead Measurement." Failures attributed to leaking seals cost the transportation and power industry tens of millions…
Marti MacGibbon
Heather, a manager at a publishing company, prides herself on her extremely high standards, even jokingly referring to herself as a “perfectionist,” but she has difficulty meeting deadlines. During brainstorming sessions with her staff, Heather yearns to unearth new discoveries and innovations…
John Hamm
There are people in every organization whose titles indicate they are leaders. Often, and unfortunately, their employees beg to differ. Oh, they don’t say it directly, not to the boss’s face, anyway. They say it with their ho-hum performance, their games of avoidance, and their dearth of…
Accu-Sort Systems
(Accu-Sort: Telford, PA) -- Accu-Sort Systems Inc. will present several automated bar code system solutions that increase accuracy and reduce cost during the ProMat 2011 International Expo scheduled for March 21–24 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The solutions include reliable midrange laser…