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Paul Naysmith
While playing her role as Maria Kutschera in The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews once sang about her favorite things, among which were geese flying with the moon on their wings, doorbells, and brown paper packages. Remembering these things was how Maria would distract herself when times were bad…
Donald J. Wheeler
With the use of statistical software, many individuals are being exposed to more than just measures of location and dispersion. In addition to the average and standard deviation, they often find some funny numbers labeled as skewness and kurtosis. Since these numbers appear automatically, it is…
Raytek Corp.
(Raytek: Santa Cruz, CA) -- Raytek, a designer, manufacturer, and provider of infrared (IR), thermometry instruments, has enhanced its MI3 Series IR temperature measurement sensors with new integrated network communication options. The Raytek MI3 sensors are now compatible with the Modbus and…
NSF International
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International’s Global Food Safety Division and Paster Training Inc. have partnered to offer a combination of training and consulting services to the food service and retail food industries. These service offerings are increasingly important in light of new federal…
ASM Sensors
(ASM Sensors: Elmhurst, IL) -- ASM Sensors Inc. (ASM) developer, manufacturer, and marketer of electromechanical position sensors for industrial applications, has expanded its POSITAPE line of tape-extension position sensors with the introduction of the WB12 series. The POSITAPE sensor line was …
Micro-Epsilon
(Micro-Epsilon: Cheshire, UK) -- Visitors to booth No. P47 at this year’s Sensors+Systems for Control and Instrumentation exhibition, Sept. 14–15, 2011, in Farnborough, North Hampshire, southwest of London, will have the opportunity to view a range of new sensors from precision measurement…
Wiley
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Jossey-Bass/Wiley has announced a new online conference series, “Why Management Still Matters,” convened by the Jossey-Bass Management Institute Online, beginning Sept. 22 and continuing through Oct. 20, 2011. Find out why management still matters and learn new models and…
TraceLink Inc.
(TraceLink: Woburn, MA) -- TraceLink Inc., developer of the TraceLink Network, an industrywide supply collaboration network, has released Trace Link Quality Review, the first service designed to help virtual quality teams from pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies and their chief…
MIT News
The migration of manufacturing from the United States to Asia could be having a significant impact on which advanced technologies are commercialized. Specifically, there is evidence that the shift in manufacturing is curtailing the development of emerging technologies in areas such as…
Quality Digest
Ever feel like your brain has been put in a jar, “all shook up,” then poured out? That’s what we did with a list of 18 quality words and terms that you would hear at a Six Sigma training class. Unscramble them and e-mail your answers to us by Aug. 31, 2011, and you just might win a $50 gift…
FDA
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and federal partners has released the Food Related Emergency Exercise Boxed (FREE-B) set, a web-based collection of scenarios that will help government regulators, public health organizations, and the food industry test…
Gartner
(Gartner: Stanford, CT) -- Organizations seeking to make the transition from a supply chain to a demand-driven value network (DDVN) must look beyond traditional projects and adopting functional best practices, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner analysts have identified four imperatives that…
Thomson Reuters
(Thomson Reuters: London) -- Thomson Reuters has enhanced its enterprisewide risk management product, Kondor Global Risk (KGR), incorporating a dynamic dashboard that provides a powerful way for risk managers to visualize and interpret their risk exposure. KGR will enable risk managers to…
Lean Enterprise Institute
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Implementing lean management principles in manufacturing, distribution, and supply chains are major tracks in a series of lean workshops scheduled by the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) for Minneapolis, Sept. 13–15, 2011.
What is lean?
The terms “lean manufacturing,” “…
SAE International
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- The recently released “Engineer Employment Study for Mobility Industries, 2011–2016,” from SAE International finds that U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the automotive, aerospace, and commercial vehicles industries is too negative and overlooks the reality that…
Paul N. Gardner Co. Inc.
(Paul N. Gardner Co.: Pompano Beach, FL) -- The Paul N. Gardner Co. Inc., which serves world commerce through the distribution, production, and design of
quality physical-testing instruments for the paint, coatings, and related industries, announces its new coating thickness gauge, the MiniTest…
Edward D. Hess
These days small-business owners are faced with the difficult task of doing much more with a lot less. But even though they might be making cuts to their prices and budgets, now is not the time to start cutting great customer service out of their business plans.
The U.S. economy is still in a…
Mike Micklewright
In a 2009 book review for Bukisa.com, a blogger named Khead quoted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point (Little, Brown and Co., 2000): “‘In order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements.’ This is one detail that explains his Rule of 150. The…
UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Frugal companies succeed commercially in part because they consistently control spending and are resourceful with people and products rather than cutting costs reactively, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. The paper, “Corporate Frugality: Theory, Measurement and…
Harry Hertz
Every few years the American Society for Quality (ASQ) conducts a Future of Quality study. The first phase of the 2011 study, which involves the use of a Delphi process to identify the key forces of change, has been completed recently. Using input from 150 panelists in 40 countries, the study…
Bruce Hamilton
It’s now been about four years since the Dow began its precipitous decline, and about three since the invention of the expression “too big to fail” entered our lexicon. Two years ago, the U.S. Treasury became a majority stockholder in another entity deemed too big to fail. Today, the expression…
Microscan
Optical character recognition (OCR) is a vision system tool that is widely used in the packaging industry. Like bar code technology, OCR is a data-capture methodology. Its primary advantage is that it encodes information in a format that is both machine- and human-readable, while bar codes and…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(ROMER: North Kingstown, RI) -- ROMER Inc., a brand of Hexagon Metrology, has launched the CMS108, a high-precision, noncontact laser scanner available for the company’s portable coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). The newest option in ROMER’s laser scanning portfolio, the CMS108 is the most…
Jenoptik Industrial Metrology
(Jenoptik: Jena, Germany) -- Light and compact in design, easy to operate with long-lasting battery power, the Hommel-Etamic W5 surface roughness measuring system is ideally suited for measurements on the production line. Capable of a wide range of measuring tasks using an extensive array of…
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light, and shape, announces the release of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the recently introduced FD-Series spectrodensitometers.
These new…
