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(Palisade Corp.: Ithaca, NY) — In a major step forward for decision making and risk analysis in international businesses, Palisade Corp. has released its popular DecisonTools Suite software in five foreign languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Japanese. Having just celebrated its…
The Pitbull Clamp
(The Pitbull Clamp Co. Inc.: Boylston, MA) -- As quality control inspectors, you may be measured on contributions you make to improve your inspection process. Be the first to introduce this brand new line of inspection work holding designed with “lean” principles in mind.
The Pitbull Clamp Co…
UBM Canon
(Canon Communications: Los Angeles) -- Canon Communications announces that in 2010 it will launch three DesignMed events dedicated to the constantly evolving and highly innovative medical electronic imaging, diagnostics, and interventional device industry sectors. Electronics Design News (…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- As time runs out for businesses currently registered to ISO 9001:2000 to make the transition and become registered to the ISO 9001:2008 quality management system, the American Society for Quality (ASQ) is offering a free webinar to help make the transition easier. “ISO 9001:…
Tim McMahon
A management system is the framework of processes and procedures used to ensure that an organization can fulfill all tasks required to achieve its objectives. A lean management system consists of the discipline, daily practices, and tools that you need to establish and maintain a persistent,…
Steve Moore
The following words of an anonymous poet as he (or she) immortalized the lessons from Deming’s funnel experiment.
“Tamper, tamper is the game, try to make all the same. Squeak and tweak it every day, off we go to the Milky Way.”
—Anonymous
I offer a corollary that may help…
ADCOLE Corp.
(ADCOLE Corp.: Marlborough, MA) -- A new software option for their camshaft measuring machines, which can measure axial profile across the industry’s newer cam lobes, and have become narrower and produced with tighter grinding tolerances, is being introduced by ADCOLE Corp. of Marlborough,…
PQ Systems
(PQ Systems Inc.: Dayton, OH) -- PQ Systems is now offering Right First Time , a classic British film that examines key quality issues, on DVD. This 28-minute film is an entertaining yet clear and concise way to communicate key quality concepts to everyone on your team.
The film follows a…
J.D. Power and Associates
(J.D. Power and Associates: Westlake Village, CA) -- For those who thought things in the automotive world couldn’t get any wilder, a look at recent headlines about Toyota and other auto manufacturers’ woes suggests that turmoil and change may be the industry’s only constants, going forward.…
J.D. Power and Associates
(J.D. Power and Associates: Westlake Village, CA) -- For those who thought things in the automotive world couldn’t get any wilder, a look at recent headlines about Toyota and other auto manufacturers’ woes suggests that turmoil and change may be the industry’s only constants, going forward.…
Ono Sokki
(Ono Sokki Technology: Addison, IL) -- Ono Sokki Technology Inc. reintroduces the GS-1000 linear gauge sensor. This gauge was designed to measure dimensions, thickness, curvature, eccentricity, displacement, height, depth, flatness, variation, run-out, roundness, distortion, deflection, and also…
The Pyzdek Institute
(Pyzdek Institute LLC: Tucson, AZ) -- The Pyzdek Institute LLC has added lean Six Sigma Black Belt training and certification to its portfolio of online and live courses on process excellence topics. The new course is written and presented by Thomas Pyzdek, author of The Six Sigma Handbook (McGraw…
CSA Standards
(CSA Standards: Cleveland) -- CSA Standards, a developer of standards, codes, and personnel certification programs, announces the first graduating class of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory quantifiers certified under its new Greenhouse Gas Personnel Certification program. This new certification…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- Energy is Matt Garran’s forte. A supply chain manager for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Garran will offer insights on how manufacturing companies can grow in the renewable energy and wind industry at WESTEC 2010, March 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center…
Optical Gaging Products OGP
(OGP: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products Inc. (OGP) offers an innovative, high-accuracy dimensional measurement system—SmartScope Quest 300. This benchtop multisensor metrology system offers micron-level measurements within a generous 300 × 300 × 250 mm (12 × 12 × 10 in.) of XYZ travel to…
GKS Global Services
A mechanical engineering firm was contracted to install new cooling equipment in a municipal ice rink’s mechanical room. The challenge was to design the equipment installation without tearing out the old equipment first, and to install some elements and piping that housed the refrigerant around…
R. Eric Reidenbach Ph.D.
“Our corporate mission is to deliver the ‘Best Value in Energy and Related Services,’” according to a large Midwestern electric and gas utility company. This is a mission statement, which after a minor modification (just change the industry), could be posted on any boardroom wall and inserted into…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a joint effort to gather enhanced climate data from spaceborne climate observation instruments planned for a group of satellites now…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The future International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard, ISO 26000—“Guidance on social responsibility,” has just passed another important development stage with confirmation that support by ISO’s national members and by participating liaison organizations is…
Sciemetric Instruments Inc.
(Sciemetric Instruments: Ottawa, ON, Canada) -- Sciemetric Instruments Inc., whose technology has been used for more than 25 years by some of the world’s largest manufacturers to improve quality and their manufacturing processes, announces the addition of a low-cost two-channel process monitor,…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- Registration for the 28th edition of the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2010 is open and available at www.imts.com. The IMTS, which is held every even-numbered year, is set for Sept. 13–18 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, and is one of the largest industrial…
Rotronic
(Rotronic: Hauppauge, NY) -- The HygroGen HG2 humidity and temperature generator is designed as a calibrator for relative humidity probes. The HG2 uses a mixed flow method for generating the humidity (%RH) required by the user. A desiccant cartridge provides low humidity, a saturator provides high…
Stewart Anderson
Organizations can be considered as systems of processes whose aim is to achieve customer satisfaction by meeting and filling the needs of customers. The famous flow diagram of W. Edwards Deming, illustrated in figure 1, shows an organization as a system and illustrates how certain key processes…
(American Solutions: Washington) -- Former Speaker of the House and general chairman of American Solutions, Newt Gingrich, announced the appointment of Quality Digest Daily columnist, H. James Harrington, to the advisory board of Gingrich’s Jobs and Prosperity Task Force.
According to a press…
TARDEC
(TARDEC: Warren, MI) -- The day when U.S. soldiers will drive “smart- armor” vehicles that tell occupants when those vehicles are damaged has moved closer to reality. Scientists at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive, Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) have been awarded military…