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(FMA: Rockford, IL) -- Despite assertions from manufacturers that they will need a new breed of highly skilled workers in the years ahead and job opportunities will abound for today’s youth, U.S. teenagers in large numbers want to wear white collars, not blue, when they launch their careers.
A…
Benny Shaviv
The rapid pace of technological advancement in the last decade has introduced both significant benefits as well as significant challenges to medical device makers. Companies these days are faced with demands of bringing products to market faster and faster, not only to meet sales and market…
David C. Crosby
Education seems to be a never ending problem for the United States. The drop-out rate in some major cities is 50 to 60 percent, or even more. With teacher strikes, tight money, and controversial curriculum, it’s a wonder any of us can read or write, or that we made it to the moon. I just watched…
(SenGenuity: Hudson, NH) -- SenGenuity, the sensors division of Vectron International, announced that its TempTrackr Wireless Temperature Measurement System Kit is now capable of reading six independent, passive, wireless temperature sensors. Each sensor operates in a unique frequency band, which…
FARO
Most car drivers enjoy road tunnels without giving a second thought to the years of patient effort that go into the construction. In the case of the new 3.6 km-long, newly opened Vintebro tunnel near Oslo, Norway, in three minutes one can drive through a tunnel that took three years to finish and…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. announces VisionPro 6.0, a new release of the company’s popular, hardware-independent vision software. VisionPro 6.0 has more acquisition options, higher accuracy calibration, and expanded ID reading capability.
“VisionPro 6.0 provides more freedom than…
ARTEL
(Artel: Westbrook, ME) -- The ARTEL Multichannel Verification System (MVS), an objective performance assessment and optimization tool for automated liquid handlers, will be launched at LabAutomation2010, in Palm Springs, California, on Jan. 24–26. The MVS will be demonstrated with automated liquid…
(Qioptiq: Rochester, NY) -- Qioptiq announces the introduction of a new line of high-performance vision metrology systems designed for streamlined user interface and maximum productivity in noncontact dimensional measurement. The latest entry into the noncontact metrology market, the Fetura Vision…
(IQPC: New York) -- The sixth annual "LSS & Process Improvement Canada" summit, to be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Feb. 22–24, 2010, will feature in-depth presentations, case studies, perspectives, and conversations on how to:
• Increase organizational synergies by applying lean…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- An international standard to prevent the development and marketing of products which could present health and safety risks to consumers is the goal of a new project committee (PC) from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The “ISO/PC 243 Consumer product…
(Sensor Products Inc.: Madison, NJ) -- During tough economic times it is tempting to reduce quality control to cut costs. However Dolph Beyer, an engineer with Mohawk Fine Papers, asserts that doing this is actually counterproductive. He has determined that using pressure indicating sensor film as…
WILLIAM SCHERKENBACH
I’ve spent most of the past two years living in China where I have learned much on how enterprise is managed over there. Many people have said that this century belongs to Asia. That may be, but they have a lot to learn and change before that happens. They cannot depend on cheap rote labor to…
Bytewise Measurement Systems
(Bytewise Measurement Systems: Columbus, GA) -- Bytewise Measurement Systems explains why the affordable CrossCheck laser profile sensors are perfectly suited to monitor and control web-based and extruded materials. One or two laser profile sensors can be used to measure web width and thickness as…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- In spite of the current economic turmoil, there is positive news for the quality profession. According to the American Society for Quality’s Annual Salary Survey, the average quality job salary went up 3 percent from 2008 to 2009, to just under $84,000.
Moreover, as in…
Advanced Test Equipment Rentals
(Advanced Test Equipment Rentals: San Diego) -- The Fluke 435 three-phase power quality analyzer helps locate, predict, prevent, and troubleshoot problems in three- and single-phase power distribution systems. Troubleshooting is faster with on-screen display of trends and captured events, even…
(American Management Association: New York) -- There’s a myth in business that the only way to get people to perform at a high level is with carrots and sticks.
But that’s just wrong—not wrong morally, but wrong scientifically.
Forty years of science tells us that those sorts of motivators…
(NQF: Washington) -- The National Quality Forum (NQF) recently released the Quality Data Set (QDS), a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients’ quality of care. The QDS framework provides a standardized set of…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) provides another look into the latest technologies and production methods at WESTEC 2010 Exposition.
WESTEC will be held Tuesday, March 23 through Thursday, March 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles.
To…
Lisa Shirk
St. Joseph Health System-Humboldt County (SJHS-Humboldt County) is committed to meeting the highest standards in health care delivery. SJHS-Humboldt County consists of two hospitals: St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka and Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, both in California. With more than 1,200…
Donald J. Wheeler
The four questions of data analysis are the questions of description, probability, inference, and homogeneity. Any data analyst needs to know how to organize and use these four questions to be able to obtain meaningful and correct results.
The description question
Given a collection of…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- A new international standard, ISO 31000:2009—“Risk management—Principles and guidelines,” will help organizations of all types and sizes to manage risk effectively.
ISO 31000 provides principles, framework, and a process for managing any form of risk in a…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has joined forces with three of the biggest names in standards to develop an unprecedented resource for medical device standards and related information.
Medical professionals can now access more than 1,300 medical device…
Knowledge at Wharton
“Lean” has come to mean an integrated, end-to-end process viewpoint that combines the concepts of waste elimination, just-in-time inventory management, built-in quality, and worker involvement supported by a cultural focus on problem solving. Can such practical principles be applied to innovation…
NCQA
(NCQA: Washington) -- U.S. News Media Group and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) have released the fifth-annual edition of “America’s Best Health Insurance Plans” on USNews.com. Published at the start of open-enrollment season, when people across the United States prepare to…
Solar Metrology
(Solar Metrology: Halbrook, NY) -- Solar Metrology expands its SMX XRF tool portfolio for film composition and thickness measurement of CIGS photovoltaic depositions with the addition of the System SMX-Remote static head ILH.
Solar Metrology’s System SMX-ILH is an atmospheric in-line X-ray…
