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Bruce Hamilton
Sometimes things that seem factual are not exactly true. Here are a few examples relating to inventory:
• When I was a materials manager, the auditors would declare that we had taken a “good inventory” at year-end when the amount of positive variances was counterbalanced by an equal amount of…
Steven Ouellette
“Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Ned / a poor Texas Sharpshooter barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was shootin’ at his barn / and he came up with a plan to spin a silly yarn. ‘Specifications,’ he said, ‘making of… the easy way.’ ” What do a Texas sharpshooter and…
Centric Software Inc.
(Centric Software Inc: Campbell, CA) -- Centric—a leading provider of product life-cycle management
(PLM) solutions for makers of hard and soft lines in the luxury,
fashion, and consumer goods industries—is introducing the Centric 8
Quality module to its Centric 8 PLM suite to enable easy…
Qualitest USA LC
(Qualitest USA: Fort Lauderdale, FL) -- Qualitest introduces the new G2/130 Gas Transmission Rate Tester for measuring the gas permeability rate of hollow packaging containers. The gas used in a test may be air, oxygen, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide, among others. The hollow packaging containers…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(American National Standards Institute: Washington) -- The 2011 World Standards Day Paper Competition has been announced by the U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day Planning Committee and the paper competition’s sponsor, SES–The Society for Standards Professionals.
The theme for this year’s…
Claigan Inc.
(Claigan Inc: Kanata, ON) -- On March 16, Claigan Environmental Inc., sponsored by Chemical Watch, is presenting a webinar for which the content will be determined by the webinar’s registrants. The webinar will address attendees’ most pressing questions on RoHS Recast, REACH, WEEE, and other…
Tiger Optics LLC
(Tiger Optics: Warrington, PA) -- The HALO-500-H2OTM, designed to measure higher levels of moisture in gases, is gaining notice from gas manufacturers and metrology institutes, reports Tiger Optics LLC, the manufacturer that developed the product at the behest of its London-based representative…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is teaming up with Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley robotics research and design firm, to launch an international “perception challenge” to drive improvements in sensing and perception technologies for next-…
For years now, outsourcing U.S. manufacturing overseas has been a common practice. Asia leads the way in producing most consumer goods—from electronics to housewares and everything in between—at a far lower cost than would be possible in the United States. Although this has resulted in a…
Stewart Anderson
The recent events that have unfolded in Egypt and resulted in the overthrow of an authoritarian regime by the Egyptian people contains an important lesson for organizations: Authority does not exist unless it is accepted by those in lower positions.
Most organizations have a hierarchical design…
Elysium Inc.
(Elysium: Southfield, MI) -- Elysium, a global provider of 3-D design data exchange software, has announced the upcoming release of ASFALIS K2, a powerful new system for managing 3-D data distribution in manufacturing industries. ASFALIS allows users to communicate smoothly and improve…
Sensors Unlimited–Goodrich ISR Systems
(Sensors Unlimited–Goodrich ISR Systems: Princeton, NJ) -- Sensors Unlimited–Goodrich ISR Systems’ new compact SU1024LDM line-scan camera features high resolution, 1,024-pixel imaging in shortwave infrared (SWIR). Its square pixels are ideal for inspection of polished silicon blocks, ingots,…
Intertek
(Intertek: London) -- The Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) international protocol long used by the global food and beverage industry has been prevalent for years, but it has primarily applied to food processors. Now many North American retailers, packaged goods companies, and…
Instron
(Instron: Norwood, MA) Instron, a leading provider of testing equipment designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components, has released its updated materials testing accessories catalog. This 5th edition details, in full-color images, a broad range of…
IDS Imaging Development Systems
(IDS Imaging Development Systems: Woburn, MA) -- IDS Imaging Development Systems, a global leader in machine vision technology, has unveiled its most affordable 10-megapixel USB uEye LE 2.0 color camera.
Designed for applications ranging from parts inspection to microscopy, the new…
Creaform Inc.
(Creaform Inc: Baden-Württemberg, Germany) -- Creaform, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of 3-D optical measurement technologies, presents solutions for 3-D inspection and 3-D scanning at Control 2011, the international trade fair for quality assurance, which will take place May 3–6 in…
Camstar Systems Inc.
(Camstar Systems Inc: Charlotte, N.C.) -- Camstar Systems Inc. has launched CamstarSQN, a cloud-based, supplier quality network representing the largest global consumer electronics brand owners and their key component suppliers. Specifically designed to enable brand owners and component…
Phenom-World
(Phenom-World BV: Eindhoven, Netherlands) -- When first launched in 2006, the Phenom desktop scanning electronic microscope (SEM) caused a stir with its 30-second load time, superb image quality, and easy-to-use, touch-screen user interface. Phenom-World has built on that success and launched the…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: Cobham, UK) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced the completion and opening of its newest facility, located in Oceanside, California. The state-of-the-art factory and research and development (R&D) center will serve as the North American manufacturing headquarters for…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Presenting mathematical prerequisites in summary tables, the Handbook of Food Processing Modeling and Statistical Quality Control (CRC Press, 2011) explains fundamental techniques of mathematical modeling processes essential to the food industry.…
Laurel Thoennes @ QD
Six Sigma Demystified, Second Edition, by Paul Keller (McGraw-Hill, 2011)
Have you considered implementing Six Sigma in your organization? You may have searched the internet for books about Six Sigma, signed in so you could “look inside,” but that’s as far as you went. All those formulas…
Enhesa
(Enhesa: Brussels, Belgium) -- Increasing regulatory pressure requires new management approaches. More than ever before, with global manufacturers exposed to new product regulations, environmental issues are finding their way to board rooms. These are some of the conclusions drawn by Enhesa, a…
Breuckmann
(Breuckmann GmbH: Meersburg, Germany) -- This year at Control 2011, the international trade show for quality assurance scheduled for May 3–6 in Stuttgart, Germany, Breuckmann will present the full range of its 3-D scanning systems at hall 7, booth No. 7236. Among them will be the particularly…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting nominations of middle-school science teachers from eligible U.S. public school districts or accredited private educational institutions to participate in the NIST Summer Institute for Middle…
Mark R. Hamel
A recent George F. Will column referenced the sign re-created to the right. Although I don’t necessarily believe that the signage encompasses the complete definition of discipline, it certainly provides food for thought.
A lot of folks think of discipline, especially in the context…
