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Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- METTLER-TOLEDO announces the launch of GWP Risk Check for balances and scales. Risk Check is an interactive online assessment tool that provides qualitative and quantitative analysis of balance performance and weighing environment. In a matter of minutes,…
FDA
(FDA: Washington) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded a contract to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. to develop a pilot of the FDA’s Sentinel System, which will use automated health care data to evaluate medical product safety.
Reports filed by hospitals, health care…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- ISO has published a new, updated brochure providing a basic introduction to “Environmental management—The ISO 14000 family of International Standards.”
The 12-page brochure is the latest edition of a successful publication first released in 1998, two years after the launching…
Michael Raphael
VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System 150-acre campus
Faro Laser Scanner LS scanning room elements
Photo of section of room
3-D scan of same room
In November 2008,…
Paul Scicchitano
If you’re like the vast majority of readers, your company has probably gotten certified to one or more management system standards because someone told you to do so.
While certification is considered to be a cost of doing business these days, companies that invest in becoming certified to a…
QI Macros
(QI Macros: Denver) -- KnowWare International Inc. announces the 2010 version of the QI Macros Lean Six Sigma SPC Software for Excel. The new version includes p and u templates as well as the ability to use time or date data to draw histograms. Jay Arthur, developer and lean Six Sigma sensei, is…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $34.12 million in grants for measurement science and engineering research. The NIST Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Program, made possible through the…
Labsphere
(Labsphere: North Sutton, NH) -- Luminescent materials are extremely important components in many applications, including solid state lighting and medical imaging and diagnostic systems. To measure the quantum efficiency of these critical materials, Labsphere, in partnership with Photal Otsuka…
Flow Dynamics Inc.
(Flow Dynamics: Scottsdale, AZ) -- Flow Dynamics Inc. a global provider of primary standard, NIST-traceable flow calibration equipment and services, will conduct liquid and gas flow measurement training classes during April at its facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. The classes are intended for…
Underwriters Laboratories UL
(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), a world leader in product safety testing and certification services, announces that it has acquired Compliance Certification Services (CCS) of Fremont, California. The acquisition results in a newly formed division at UL and bolsters its…
Total Quality Research Foundation
(TQRF: Toronto) -- Join Total Quality Research Foundation Canada (TQRF) and other organizations for The Second Canadian Quality Congress in Toronto, Canada, on Aug. 23-25.
The Technical Program Committee is calling for papers on best practices and case study applications in all areas of total…
RITA-Dept. of Transportation
(RITA: Washington) -- The nation’s largest airlines set a single-month record in November for on-time performance for the nearly 15 years that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has collected comparable data, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released Jan. 7 by DOT. They also…
Bill Kalmar
Besides penning a column periodically for Quality Digest Daily, I also write for a number of other newspapers and publications. One of those columns for a paper distributed in Michigan and neighboring states is entitled, “Retired… (and lovin’ it).” But here’s the dilemma. The more I talk to people…
Mitutoyo Corp.
(Mitutoyo America: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp. announces availability of the new QuantuMike line of micrometers. The name, QuantuMike, derived from the words “quantum” and “micrometer,” reflects Mitutoyo’s assertion that the tool represents the most revolutionary advance in micrometer…
H. James Harrington
In the first column of this three-part series, I reviewed an interview that was conducted in 1988 with F. James McDonald, president of General Motors. In this interview he explained what GM was doing to improve quality and customer satisfaction. Typical activities that GM was involved in during…
BSI
(BSI: Reston, VA) -- BSI Americas announced today that ANAB has extended BSI’s global accreditation to include the Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS) for standards OHSAS 18001, Z10 for the US, and Z1000 for Canada, making BSI the first certification body (CB) in North…
(University of Delaware: Newark, DE) -- The University of Delaware (UD) has announced the winner of the 2009 Delaware Quality Award. This year, Bayhealth Medical Center’s Child Care and Early Learning Center has been awarded the Delaware Quality Award of Merit.
The award will be presented at…
(AMACOM: New York) -- “We fulfill dreams through the experience of motorcycling.” That’s the mission statement of Harley-Davidson, which reflects the business model that drives the company. The dreams it fulfills are created by new products: motorcycles that rev up HOGs (Harley owner group members…
(Business Basics LLC: Oceanside, CA) -- To survive in a dynamically changing manufacturing environment, organizations that consistently exceed expectations will have the edge. A common denominator to their success is team training. Business Basics offers the recently released e-tutorial “The 8-…
Messagemind Inc.
(Messagemind: New York) -- Messagemind Inc. announces its commercial launch of PRISM, a first of its kind—total quality management and Six Sigma analysis for e-mail communication. PRISM's intelligent software works in the background and automatically gathers e-mail data and user actions within…
Extensible CAD Technologies
(Extensible CAD Technologies: Raleigh, NC) -- Extensible CAD Technologies announces the release of their new product, InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER. InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER is inspection report automation and ballooning software that works directly within the Pro/ENGINEER interface to…
Stanley A. Marash, founder of STAT-A-MATRIX, a noted leader in the performance improvement field, and long-time columnist for Quality Digest magazine, died Dec. 17 at the age of 71.
Quality was Marash’s hallmark. As chairman and CEO of STAT-A-MATRIX, which he founded in 1968, he was a…
(IQS: North Olmsted, OH) -- IQS announces the availability of IQS Problem Solver module that enables organizations to standardize problem solving processes with easy-to-use questioned-based reasoning software. Failure to standardize problem solving, capture reasoning, and effectively use your…
How unique is unique? The answer to this riddle is central in determining which work breakdown structure (WBS) methodology most accurately explains project deliverables and how they should be estimated, controlled, and completed. The quality strategy used to segregate and decompose WBS…
Bill Kalmar
The year 2009—it was a year to be relegated quickly into obscurity. Nothing seemed to go right. Automotive sales were in the dumper. Home foreclosures continued to be in the news wreaking havoc on millions of people. The health care debate divided the country into vociferous groups in a verbal war…
