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A2LA
(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), in partnership with the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IQMH), is offering a five-day, free trial of the educational series “Decoding ISO 15189,” modules 8 and 11.
The interactive online…
California Science Center
(California Science Center: Los Angeles) -- More than 900 top students from California’s middle- and senior-high schools will convene for the final round of competition in the 60th annual California State Science Fair, May 2–3, 2011, at the California Science Center in Exposition Park near downtown…
Juran
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- Juran is offering two “Leading with Lean” workshops, the first beginning on June 13, 2011, and the second beginning on July 11, 2011. Both workshops will be held in Clearwater, Florida, and will consist of four-day, hands-on intensive training in…
Nissan
(Nissan: Kanagawa, Japan) -- At the New York International Auto Show, the 100-percent electric, zero-emission Nissan LEAF was named 2011 World Car of the Year, edging out the BMW 5-Series and the Audi A8 for the top spot. This award is the latest in a string of accolades for the…
Eriez Manufacturing Co.
(Eriez: Erie, PA) -- Eriez, a global leader in advanced technology for magnetic, vibratory, and inspection applications, announces the availability of the Eriez Pull Test Kit. When used properly, the kit will help users monitor the efficiency of their magnetic separator by measuring the holding…
Bosch Rexroth
(Rexroth: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- Developed with lean manufacturing expert Dan Fleming, Rexroth’s lean manufacturing podcast, episode 16, “Lean in Assembly Operations” discusses how to apply lean concepts to automation. The episode is the latest in a series of Rexroth podcasts dedicated to…
Art Petty
When we focus on not failing, fear rents most of the space in our minds, and we see monsters in need of slaying everywhere we turn. We lose track of the original vision that propelled our actions, and the sheer act of working becomes at best a passionless exercise and at worst, drudgery.
Sadly,…
NASA
(NASA: Washington) -- To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.
“For 21…
Seidenader
(Seidenader: Markt Schwaben, Germany) -- The particular attention paid to leak tightness of pharmaceutical containers has been continuously increasing during the past months. Seidenader stays abreast of these changes with the development of a module for head space analysis (HSA). Besides the…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On Thursday, July 21, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a webinar, “Documenting Traceability and Calibration Intervals.” Georgia Harris, of NIST’s Weights and Measures Division (WMD), will lead the webinar. At the end of (or during…
Prrrfect Technologies LLC
(Prrrfect: Carlsbad, CA) -- Prrrfect Technologies LLC has chosen the CONTROL 2011 exposition, held May 3–6 in Stuttgart, Germany, to launch its portable direct computer controlled coordinate measuring machine (DCC CMM) specifically designed to support production operations such as precision…
ARTEL
(Artel: Westbrook, ME) -- Artel, a global leader in liquid-handling quality assurance, will be holding “Pipetting Olympics” competitions in labs across the country as part of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, April 24–30. During this competition, lab technologists—as…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Though fixed-mount ID readers have been enabled with Ethernet support for quite some time, handheld ID readers, traditionally serial or US-based, have always required a PC to connect into the factory network.
As a node on the Ethernet factory network, the DataMan 8000…
Michael Boetzkes
Test and measurement equipment play a critical role in most production and development processes. These instruments are used to make decisions regarding the effectiveness of processes and to ensure product quality. It is no surprise, therefore, that the need for regular calibration of test and…
Michelle LaBrosse
Are you proactive or reactive in your work and personal life? Think about your career. Do you jump on tasks as they pop up, putting out fires as you go? Now consider your weekend. Do you wait until plans come to you, or do you make plans to ensure that you are having the kind of free time that…
Mike Richman
Welcome to Quality Digest Daily 2.0! This new format represents a significant re-imaging of our flagship brand (the industry’s only daily newsletter), which we first launched nearly two years ago. I hope you notice that we’ve added more video content to the newsletter as well as greater editorial…
Global Healthcare Exchange LLC GHX
As part of the keynote of the recent GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) CEO Bruce Johnson, along with former Republican Senator Bill Frist and former Democratic Senator Tom Daschle, addressed an audience of more than 600 health care business leaders about the…
U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE: Washington) -- As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to reduce U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced new steps underway at the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the deployment of electric vehicles. This includes the availability of…
Minitab LLC
Ford Motor Co. is one of the largest automakers in the United States, producing millions of automobiles each year at 70 plants worldwide. According to J. D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Survey, Ford has received more top rankings than any other automaker since 2007. It’s no surprise that…
The Un-Comfort Zone With Robert Wilson
“Who wants to give their oral report first?” asked Mrs. Davis, my sixth grade teacher.
The dreaded day had finally arrived when each of us would have to stand in front of the room and speak to the class. The butterflies in my stomach were flapping up a tornado.
Not a single hand went up. In fact,…
William A. Levinson
The first part of this article illustrated the kinds of problems that can happen when data from non-normal processes are plotted on traditional control charts, and when traditional process capability assessments are applied to these data. This second part will show what to do about these problems…
Schoelly Imaging Inc.
(Schoelly: Worcester, MA) -- Schoelly Imaging’s high-temperature borescopes enable inspection and analysis of areas otherwise inaccessible to standard remote-viewing instruments. Designed for use at operating temperatures up to 2,000ºC, these specialty borescopes provide critical inspection…
Instron
(Instron: Grove City, PA) -- Instron, a provider of testing equipment solutions designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components, announces its new composites team. Lead by composites marketing managers Ian McEnteggart and Lorenzo Majno, this team specializes in composites…
Enthone
(Enthone: West Haven, CT) -- Enthone Inc., a business of Cookson Electronics, will offer Six Sigma Black Belt certification courses for manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace, energy, electronics, building, hardware and tooling, and surface finishing markets.
Participants must bring a laptop…
Global Industry Analysts
(GIA Inc: San Jose, CA) -- The number as well as size of testing laboratories worldwide, especially in developed markets such as the United States, has been on the rise during the past several years. Increasing consumer demand, globalization in sourcing and distribution, and the existence of…
