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By the time a consent decree comes along—which happens when a firm repeatedly violates current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) requirements and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) forces it, through legal channels, to make specific changes—it’s no longer a discussion about responses to…
Leap Technologies Inc.
(Leap Technologies: Naperville, IL) -- On Wednesday, March 23, at the 2011 Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Carle Foundation Hospital’s chief operating officer John Snyder and Beth Edrington, director of internal consulting and performance improvement, will explain how Carle Foundation has used…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Atlanta) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, has launched the ARL PERFORM'X X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer for advanced materials characterization.
The ARL PERFORM'X integrates bulk elemental analysis capabilities with…
Mahr Inc.
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal Inc. will be featuring the next generation of its well-established µMaxµm line of digital indicators at EASTEC 2011, May 17–19, at the Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, Massachusetts. Mahr Federal will occupy booth No. 3019.
The enhanced…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Today’s top manufacturers rely on machine vision systems and image-based ID readers to deter counterfeiting, improve product quality, reduce costs, and increase manufacturing efficiency. As such, accurate inspection is key to their success.
Captured inspection…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the world’s largest network of quality resources and experts, has announced that 32 global teams have been named finalists in the 26th annual International Team Excellence Awards. The teams will be part of live project presentations May 16…
Teledyne DALSA
(DALSA Corp.: Ontario, Canada) -- Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision technology, will launch its new BOA IDR product at booth 1019 at the Automate 2011 show on March 21–24, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Teledyne DALSA’s BOA IDR is ideal for part…
WCBF
(WCBF: Chicago) -- The 10th annual Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit will take place at the New Orleans Marriott, in New Orleans, May 10–13. The health care sector is a key area where lean Six Sigma processes are making a tremendous impact. Health care organizations are…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Forty or 50 years ago, when you sat down in front of, or picked up, a dimensional measurement tool, you immediately recognized that a certain amount of knowledge and skill was required to use it. The measurement operation was almost always completely manual, and even reading and interpreting the…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Forty or 50 years ago, when you sat down in front of, or picked up, a dimensional measurement tool, you immediately recognized that a certain amount of knowledge and skill was required to use it. The measurement operation was almost always completely manual, and even reading and interpreting the…
Renishaw
(Renishaw plc: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Renishaw’s new Equator system, a software-driven comparative gauge, is starting to soften up the cost for multiple hard gauges at aero-engine component maker Meyer Tool Inc. of Cincinnati. In its prelaunch application, one Renishaw Equator gauge has eliminated…
Renishaw
(Renishaw plc: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Renishaw’s new Equator system, a software-driven comparative gauge, is starting to soften up the cost for multiple hard gauges at aero-engine component maker Meyer Tool Inc. of Cincinnati. In its prelaunch application, one Renishaw Equator gauge has eliminated…
Angelo Lyall
Many writers, including me, have claimed that a lot of our business headaches and hurdles can be solved by simply unifying people within the organization and generating contribution. The catch is that this may be the single most difficult obstacle for business leaders and managers to overcome. In…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf Software: Anaheim, CA) -- Join Verisurf for a free webinar, “3-D Scanning with Verisurf” on Tuesday, April 26, from 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PDT.
Webinar agenda:• 3-D scanning and 3-D digitizing technology overview• 3-D scanning for inspection and quality assurance• Filtering during and after…
Operations Technology Inc. OPTEK
(OPTEK: Blairstown, NJ) -- Operations Technology Inc. (OPTEK), a manufacturer of precision metrology systems since 1978, has introduced a line of fast, highly accurate three-axis staging and transport systems with superior design features, suitable for a wide range of OEM applications.
Designed…
Kistler
(Kistler: Farmington Hills, MI) -- Kistler, a global supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for measuring pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has announced the North American market introduction of Types 4260A and 4262A piezoresistive pressure transducer families. Each…
Advanced Inspection Technologies Inc.
(AIT: Melbourne, FL) -- Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) introduces a new portable pipe inspection camera. The Sidewinder push camera is an inspection camera designed for power generation, petrochemical, industrial, welding, cleaning validation, and other applications. The handheld camera…
Capture 3D
(Capture 3D: Costa Mesa, CA) -- Capture 3D announces GOM Inspect, GOM’s latest free software release.
GOM Inspect allows users to import scan data from various types of measuring systems with a wide array of advanced point-cloud and inspection functionalities.
Mesh-processing: polygonize…
Michelle LaBrosse
Imagine you are sitting in your car, wondering, “What shall I do for dinner? Shall I pick up Chinese food to go, meet my friend Sally, or go home and cook dinner myself while watching American Idol?” All of a sudden you’re sitting there, frozen in time, unable to make a decision about what to…
Satya S. Chakravorty
The fact that companies are unable to reap the full benefits of innovation has little to do with specific process improvement programs such as lean or Six Sigma. Instead, the problem lies with how a new process improvement initiative interacts with the physical, economic, social, and…
Bill Kalmar
This is one of those stories that defies logic and common sense. It is a story that stretches the lines of poor customer service and transcends into the annals of, “How to Disenfranchise Customers Over a Piece of Cheese.” Additionally, it is one of those episodes where you look around for a…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, has launched the laboratory information management system (LIMS) SampleManager LIMS 10.0, a solution that delivers significant new time- and cost-savings for scientists and lab managers…
European Space Agency ESA
A key technical challenge of the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) LISA mission has been solved: how to maintain precise pointing of a laser beam across 5 million km of space (figure 1).
The next-decade Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington) -- The Internet as we know it is about to max out. Within the next 12 to 18 months, every one of the 4.3 billion internet protocol (IP) addresses will have been exhausted.
When the Internet was created more than 30 years ago, 4.3 billion unique addresses seemed…
Tripp Babbitt
The real battle for quality doesn’t lie in processes; it lies in thinking. The recent rift in the state of Wisconsin and other places caused in part by increasing government costs leads one to ask: “Who is responsible? Is it management or labor?”
Gov. Scott Walker’s actions in Wisconsin…
