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NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- For more than a decade, the Baldrige Regional Conferences have been a valuable forum for recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to showcase their exceptional performance practices. This year, the conferences feature the 2009 Baldrige Award recipients…
(Global Industry Analysts Inc.: San Jose, CA) -- A newly released market research report by Global Industry Analysts Inc. on calibration services concludes that calibration of electrical and communications equipment, particularly in North America and Europe, will occupy a major share of the…
When setbacks happen, vulnerability often follows. Feeling unprotected and exposed, we don’t want people to know what we’re facing, whether it’s a professional upset such as the loss of a job, loss of a great sales account, or being passed over for promotion, or something more personal. The more…
Thwing-Albert Instrument Company
(Thwing-Albert Instrument Co: Chicago) -- Thwing-Albert announces the introduction of the newly designed, user-friendly, FP-2255 Coefficient of Friction (COF)/Peel Tester. The peel tester mode can be set up to perform 180° tests, 90° tests, and T-Peel tests for film-to-film, film-to-paper, and…
Fluke Corp.
(Fluke Corp.: Sydney) -- Fluke Corp., a global provider of electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced the new 1594A/1595A Super-Thermometers from Hart Scientific, designed to combine accuracy, value, and innovative features for calibration of standard platinum resistance…
(Visual Workplace Inc.: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc., along with GBMP Inc, Bosch-Rexroth, Airline Hydraulic, and the 5S Store are sponsoring a half-day lean series workshop, The Foundation of Lean: Creating Stability with 5S and Visual Control Systems. The workshop will take place at…
(Guidon Performance Solutions: Mesa, AZ) -- Guidon Performance Solutions, a provider of lean and Six Sigma and business performance improvement solutions to the service sector, recently released GuidonVue, a new enterprise project portfolio management (ePPM) software to help organizations…
(Vaisala: St. Louis, MO) -- Quality managers in pharmaceutical, biotech, and other life science companies who are seeking ways to cope with humidity measurement problems and maintain full regulatory compliance are invited to attend a five-part no-cost webinar series, Humidity 101. It’s hosted by…
Carl Zeiss Microscopy
(Carl Zeiss MicroImaging: Thornwood, NY) -- Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. introduces the new Axio Lab.A1 microscope. The Axio Lab.A1 is now available for use in polarization microscopy and is particularly suitable for requirements in student education and routine laboratories.
This upright…
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss IMT: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss IMT and Koepfer America have formally joined with a new business partner agreement for the United States and Canada. This agreement will provide improved technical and marketing support related to all areas of coordinate measuring machine (CMM) gear…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- United States manufacturing technology consumption totaled $178.34 million in May, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTC…
Nikon Metrology Inc.
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology and Verisurf Software have joined forces to make it possible for manufacturers to drive all Nikon Metrology portable metrology devices from Verisurf’s common software platform. Supported Nikon Metrology devices include the Laser Radar, K-Series…
Nikon Metrology Inc.
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology and Verisurf Software have joined forces to make it possible for manufacturers to drive all Nikon Metrology portable metrology devices from Verisurf’s common software platform. Supported Nikon Metrology devices include the Laser Radar, K-Series…
American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Portals and search engines lead all e-business categories, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) survey. An overall score of 77 for these sites represents a decline of 7 percent from a year ago. This decline is driven mostly by a drop for Google,…
Akhilesh Gulati
These days when the economy is uncertain, smaller organizations worry about survival while many larger, well-established organizations sit smugly, thinking they don’t really have much to worry about. However, some of these large, well-established organizations are vanishing. How is this possible…
(Mireaux Management Solutions: Houston) – Mireaux Management Solutions is offering a quality management system (QMS) internal auditor course for three days, Sept. 22–24, at the Le Mistral Conference Center in Houston. This public training course teaches the fundamental requirements of conducting…
SPC Press Inc.
(SPC Press: Knoxville, TN) -- On July 12, SPC Press released the third edition of the classic SPC textbook, Understanding Statistical Process Control, by Donald J. Wheeler and David S. Chambers.
This internationally acclaimed textbook (often called the blue book) is widely used for…
Jack Healy
Economies shift in response to changes in financial power, and these changes will always affect our world. News reports about the strikes and labor problems in several Chinese manufacturing plants highlight the challenge the Chinese government faces in maintaining an economy based on cheap labor…
Tripp Babbitt
Often when I write articles or have a speaking engagement, I like to polarize things into black and white. Almost every time I do this, I’m challenged about the audacity of the approach. Nothing seems to irritate people more than the statement “A focus on costs always increases them.” Just to stir…
David C. Crosby
Ben Margugilio wrote a nice article for Quality Digest Daily outlining how failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and what might be called just good practices could have prevented the Gulf oil spill.
I believe the cause goes deeper than method, procedures, and even technical knowledge and…
Camstar Systems Inc.
(Camstar: Charlotte, NC) -- Camstar Systems Inc., a leading provider of enterprise solutions to advance product quality, announced that it has released SolarSuite 4.5 for general availability. SolarSuite is configured on the Camstar Enterprise Platform, and encompasses manufacturing execution,…
Plex Systems Inc.
(Plex Systems Inc.: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturers, has announced availability of live demonstrations of Plex online’s comprehensive ERP solution for motor vehicle suppliers and manufacturers on Tuesday, Aug. 3,…
Delcam
(Delcam: Birmingham, UK) -- Delcam has launched the 2010 R2 version of its PowerINSPECT inspection software. The new release incorporates automatic surface inspection and the ability to use geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) data from CATIA models, plus improvements to the handling…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo introduces the new SWD440 dual-ended-beam weigh module. The SWD440 weigh modules offer good value for general-purpose weighing of tanks, hoppers, and original equipment manufacturer machinery. They use dual-ended-beam load cells to deliver…
Smarter Solutions Inc.
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Everyone understands how lean Six Sigma tools—define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC)—are beneficial to the practitioner: They provide a system to solve true business problems in a project format. However, this emphasis on projects might limit the…
