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NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Senior leaders from the three organizations selected for the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, as well as representatives from past award recipients, will share their best practices and results at one-day regional conferences on Sept. 15 in Milwaukee, and…
AMETEK
(AMETEK Calibration Instruments: Largo, FL) -- AMETEK Calibration Instruments has introduced the JOFRA RTC-156, its most advanced dry-block reference temperature calibrator to date.
With a host of innovative features and AMETEK’s long history of providing reliable, low-drift calibration…
AIAG
See updated story for 7/6/2009
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group recently announced the availability of the new ISO technical specification for the automotive supply chain. Developed by the International Automotive Task Force (IATF), the ISO/TS 16949:2009 standard…
Thomas R. Cutler
TRANE Residential Systems, is a lean organization that knows about growth through innovation. In 1931, TRANE came up with the radical idea of using technology to provide relief from the summer heat. The 1938 launch of the Turbovac, the industry's first hermetic, centrifugal refrigeration machine,…
(Leica Geosystems: London) -- The Leica Absolute Tracker is now equipped with PowerLock. This vision technology automatically locks onto any moving target without user intervention. Current laser tracker technology requires the operator to pay careful attention that the laser beam between the…
H. James Harrington
I often get assignments at organizations where I am required to take aside a group of people, either within the building facility or off campus, to focus on issues or problems. Typically these groups spend a considerable amount of time to summarize and present a well-defined problem. The next step…
Raissa Carey
Manufacturing Extension Partnership, or MEP, is a national network of not-for-profit centers that help small- and medium-sized manufacturers improve efficiency and bottom line results. MEP’s nearly 1,600 specialists have worked with thousands of manufacturers for the past 20 years helping…
(Alliance Scale Inc.: Canton, MA) --A compact moisture analyzer that rapidly and uniformly dries a sample, performs automatic test measurements with high repeatability, and has an integral database is available from Alliance Scale Inc.
The Alliance-Ohaus MB-Series Moisture Analyzer has a…
(EtQ Inc.: Farmingdale, NY) -- EtQ Inc. has announced enhanced features in the latest release of its web-based enterprise system for quality, compliance, and environmental health and safety management, Reliance 6.2.
EtQ Reliance 6.2 incorporates enhanced features and utilities including…
Niagara Transformer is a supplier of transformers that meet the most demanding applications. It has a tradition of supplying transformers for unique applications with unusual specifications and requirements. As an industry leader, Niagara Transformer has successfully completed several quality…
Forrest Breyfogle—New Paradigms
Organizations have gained much in process improvement from implementing lean practices and Six Sigma projects. However, these efforts did not prevent our financial crisis from occurring. Lean Six Sigma, total quality management, and other process improvement methods have helped organizations…
Dyadem
(Dyadem: Toronto, Canada) -- Dyadem recently upgraded its Stature enterprise risk management platform. Stature 4.0 will enable Dyadem’s customers to make more informed and strategic decisions about the production processes and products they manage.
The Stature platform is built on the…
(New Mexico MEP: Albuquerque, NM) -- After enrolling its employees in New Mexico's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Lean Culture and Leadership program, Sennheiser raised its 2008 sales by $8 million, improved productivity by 28 percent, and experienced other significant improvements in…
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Before offshoring work to low-wage countries, senior managers should use “lean math” to calculate the true total cost of relocating, according to management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI).
Companies usually…
Davis Balestracci
This is an expanded version of an article that Balestracci wrote for Quality Digest in December 2007.
--Editor
I discovered a wonderful unpublished paper by David and Sarah Kerridge several years ago (Click here to get a pdf). Its influence on my thinking has been nothing short of profound. As…
(Strategic Vision: San Diego) -- Volkswagen of America and Ford Motor Co. were recently announced as full-line corporate leaders in Strategic Vision Inc.’s (SVI) Total Quality Index (TQI). Across their various brands, both corporations are consistently producing vehicles judged high in perceived…
(BMGI: Amsterdam) --To ensure its team was maximizing the business' performance levels, Graphic Packaging International (GPI), a producer of packaging solutions with 15,000 employees worldwide and annual revenues over €13 billion ($18.3 billion), turned to Breakthrough Management Group…
William A. Kappele
US Synthetic manufactures high quality polycrystalline diamond compacts (PDCs) used in drilling for oil and natural gas. PDCs are manufactured with a sintering process that fuses premium saw-grade industrial diamond crystals under a heat of approximately 3,000 degrees Farenheit and a pressure of…
(GE: Billerica, MA) -- The CRxFlex is the latest addition to the suite of digital radiography conversion options from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies. Reliable and versatile, the CRxFlex provides superior image quality making it the right choice for flaw detection in welds, cast parts,…
Raissa Carey
It started slowly but surely. With the slump of the U.S. economy, companies started downsizing first by the dozens, then by the hundreds. Today, thousands of organizations across the country have in one way or another had to perform some kind of cost-cutting measure.
And as unemployment started…
(CPM Marketing Group: Madison, WI) -- CPM Marketing Group Inc., developer of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for health care providers, announced the launch of its Physician Relationship Management System. This is the first provider-specific system designed to assist hospitals in…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee, WI) -- A new three-part webinar series—Journey to Excellence—spotlights nine health care organizations and their use of the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria to drive organizational transformation. Based on the recently published book by Kathleen J. Goonan, MD;…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
In response to what it claims was a misleading press release issued by Hexagon Metrology last week regarding an intellectual property suit, Xspect Solutions Inc. has added clarification and detail to some of the language used in Hexagon's release. A subsidiary of Wenzel Prazision, GmbH, Xspect…
Geomagic
Besides the fact that it flies, an airship—better known as a blimp—has about as much in common with other aircraft as a whale has with fellow sea creatures.
Among a blimp’s unique design elements are custom fan blades used to cool its engine. The fan blades were especially problematic for…
(Hoffer Flow Controls: Elizabeth City, NC)—The Sanitary Design Turbine flowmeter from Hoffer Flow Controls meets the highest sanitary requirements for process liquid measurement including 3-A Standard 28-03. The sanitary meter is designed to provide outstanding accuracy in liquid applications…
