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CMSC
(CMS: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) is sponsoring its 26th annual conference, the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), in Reno, Nevada, July 12–16. The conference brings together measurement system users, developers, manufacturers, and researchers to present…
(Wichita State University: Washington) -- Airlines and airline passengers are discovering that less can be better. Fewer flights and fewer fliers have translated into better performance.
For the second consecutive year, the performance of the nation’s leading carriers improved, according to…
Steve Moore
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n 1991, I had the privilege of attending one of W. Edwards Deming’s four-day seminars and I still proudly display the certificate of completion in my office. One of the highlights of the seminar, of course, was Deming’s famous red bead experiment. I had read about the red bead experiment, but…
David C. Crosby
The quality business is all about producing a quality product, right? By that I mean a product that looks and performs just like it was promised. Well, based on the amount of poor quality items and service that I see the quality business is apparently not doing a very good job. I’d guess that…
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- The U.S. manufacturing technology consumption for February 2010 totaled $163.96 million, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U…
Camstar Systems Inc.
(Camstar: Charlotte, NC) -- Medical device companies are operating in a challenging environment of continuously innovating and launching new products while reducing product and process variability and risk and simultaneously complying with stringent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.…
(DMSC Inc.: Arlington, TX) -- A training workshop on the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS) is scheduled for the week of April 19–22. This workshop will use the new DMIS 5.2 as well as the I++ Dimensional Measurement Equipment (DME) Specification.
Training classroom
This DMIS 5.2/…
(Emerson Process Management: Austin, TX) -- Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson, applauds the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) unanimous vote to certify WirelessHART technology as the first global standard for wireless communications for industrial process…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington) -- Only three weeks remain to submit an entry to the 2010 U.S. Celebration of World Accreditation Day paper competition launched by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Paper submissions are due by April 30.
ANSI invites all interested stakeholders to…
(PTI Inspection Systems: Tuckahoe, NY) -- Seal-Sensor is the newest addition to PTI’s Seal-Scan line of noncontact ultrasound inspection systems.
“Seal-Sensor technology can be used in both off-line and online applications to inspect pouch seals and produce real-time results,” says Tony…
Michelle LaBrosse
April 22 is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. What better way to honor Earth Day than to develop your own renewable energy project? As a project manager, you have the skills to reduce your energy costs and even become energy self-sufficient. All it takes is planning, and that’s something you’re…
Mark Kiemele Ph.D.
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t is no secret that lean Six Sigma (LSS) and design for Six Sigma (DFSS) have arguably been the most effective initiatives for improving bottom line results and revenue growth since the advent of Frederick Taylor and management science. Billions of dollars in bottom-line impact have been…
(IQMS: Paso Robles, CA) -- IQMS, an innovator in the design and development of extended enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, recently announced the release of its Quality Audit Module, the most recent addition to the IQMS EnterpriseIQ suite of products. Using the new Quality Audit Module,…
TÜV SÜD America
(TÜV SÜD: Munich) -- The European market is being flooded with increasing numbers of counterfeit products. These fakes not only cause financial losses for manufacturers, but also generate major safety problems for consumers when statutory safety tests are sidestepped in their production. TÜV SÜD…
(Henry Ford Health System: Detroit) -- Looking to shake up your industry, transform your medical center, and recharge your organization?
A two-day educational symposium, “Going Radical: Creating the Hospital of the Future,” to be held May 25–27, may hold the key to revitalization.
Henry Ford…
Accelper Consulting
(Accelper Consulting: Schaumburg, IL) -- Accelper Consulting presented one of the world’s largest Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) certification and training events at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) School of Applied Technology in Wheaton, Illinois, during March 26–27.
What began with…
(StevenFalk.org: Sarasota, FL) -- Former Stanford Tennis USPTA Pro, author, and Six Sigma Champion Steven Falk wrote Six Sigma Tennis (World Sports Media Group, 2010) upon returning to Stanford Tennis after recovering from a traumatic brain injury. The goal of the book is to share his successful…
(PhoCusWright: Sherman, CT) -- Priceline.com recently announced that its practice of proactively sending post-stay surveys to every Priceline hotel customer has enabled the hotel reservation service to amass more than 2.5 million hotel guest reviews. The announcement follows the publication of the…
With today’s limited internal resources, it’s tough to transform machine maintenance from reactionary to preventive, and ultimately proactive, despite the obvious upsides in higher overall equipment efficiency (OEE), better process control, and lower total cost. Outsourcing this requirement to a…
Where does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stand on good manufacturing practices (GMP), the set of regulations that govern manufacture and testing of medical devices and other medical products like pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and food? And what of the universal device identification…
GKS Global Services
A company based in the U.S. Southwest makes innovative optics for racing cars and other extreme vehicles. Recently the owners, who grew up in Southern California’s skateboard culture, came up with a new product idea for a kick scooter, mainly for kids, based on the design of a skateboard. The…
(PCS Press, Vancover, WA) -- Fundamental Principles of Lean Manufacturing (PCS Press and Enna Products Corp., 2009) is the latest discovered and newly translated book by Shigeo Shingo. Shingo provides total access to the fundamentals of improving any process. He directs the reader toward the path…
QI Macros
(QI Macros: Denver) -- KnowWare International Inc., developers of the QI Macros Lean Six Sigma SPC Software for Excel, will showcase the product at the Quality Expo South Tradeshow in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 28–29.
Statistical process control (SPC) software is a key ingredient in…
Advantest Corp.
(Advantest Corp.: Santa Clara, CA) -- Advantest Corp. announces that it has successfully commercialized a new 3-D imaging analysis system, the TAS7000, which utilizes Advantest’s proprietary terahertz wave technology to perform nondestructive scans of targeted sample materials and deliver 3-D…
(GMT: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) -- Guindy Machine Tools (GMT) has expanded its coordinate measuring machine (CMM) product range by introducing the new GRANO 12 20 10 for larger components. GRANO 12 20 10 has a measurement volume of 1,200 × 2,000 × 1,000 mm. Its volumetric measurement uncertainty…
