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Raissa Carey
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (NCFRR), a bipartisan committee created by President Obama to address the country’s fiscal challenges, recently released its recommendations to reduce the nation’s debt. If put into practice, the measures are expected to make $200 billion…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) have published a new handbook setting out the advantages for exporters in developing countries of closer collaboration between national standards bodies (NSBs) and trade promotion…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Provide a valuable service to your country. If you’re an expert from a business, education, health care, or nonprofit organization, and possess knowledge and experience in leadership, strategic planning, customer service, human resources, process management, and…
Exact Metrology
(Exact Metrology: Cincinnati) -- Exact Metrology Inc. has announced the addition of a Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 laser scanner to its extensive lineup of portable metrology equipment. The ScanStation C10 is a high-speed, high-accuracy, long-range scanner with full field of view ideal for…
Underwriters Laboratories UL
(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world provider of product safety testing and certification, has released an extensive resource, “UL’s Comprehensive 60601 3rd edition Q&A” that addresses more than 70 frequently asked questions (FAQ) regarding IEC 60601 third edition,…
ASQ
(American Society for Quality: Milwaukee) -- Signs of economic turnaround are evident in the quality profession, according to the 24th Annual Salary Survey conducted by Quality Progress (QP), the monthly flagship publication of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). The overall average salary for…
IPETRONIK
(IPETRONIK: Baden-Baden, Germany) -- IPETRONIK, a global developer of mobile measurement technology for the automotive industry, has announced MultiDAQ, a new universal measurement module. With 32 measurement inputs, eight analog inputs for voltage with sensor excitation, and two frequency and…
Minitab LLC
ResMed is a global manufacturer of medical devices. The company’s products help people with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and other respiratory disorders. Characterized by the interruption of normal breathing patterns during sleep, an estimated 18 million people in the United States suffer from…
Taran March @ Quality Digest
Despite recent headlines targeting Johnson & Johnson’s uncorrected manufacturing problems and deficiencies, most makers of approved drug and biological products are meeting their regulatory obligations and targets for postmarketing studies and clinical trials in a timely manner, according to a…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended-learning support technologies, has released EngineRoom-based versions of its popular lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt online training courses. Each course now includes a…
Lean Enterprise Institute
(Lean Enterprise Institute: Cambridge, MA) -- Next year’s Lean Transformation Summit explores lean practice from two angles. From a Fundamental perspective, you’ll see how large and small companies in a variety of industries launched and sustained lean transformations. The same companies also will…
On Sept. 4, 2010, an earthquake that registered 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked Christchurch, New Zealand. It lasted 40 seconds but felt more like 40 minutes. This was the worst experience l’ve ever been through, but I managed to stay in bed (yes, I hid under the covers).
I live in the city’s…
Bruker Corp.
(Bruker Corp.: Boston) -- At the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall 2010 meeting taking place Nov. 29–Dec.3, Bruker Corp. has unveiled the AcuityXR, an optical surface profiler that combines patent-pending Bruker hardware and software technology to enable select ContourGT noncontact, 3-D…
Creaform Inc.
(Creaform: Levis, Quebec) -- Creaform, a global manufacturer of 3-D measurement technologies, presents at Euromold and to the entire world its new MetraSCAN optical CMM 3-D scanner.
The portable, arm-free MetraSCAN 3-D scanner and the C-Track 780 dual camera sensor are used to take precise…
Extensible CAD Technologies
(Extensible CAD Technologies: Raleigh, NC) -- Extensible CAD Technologies has released an enhanced version of InspectionXpert First-Article. The software helps companies automate their quality-control inspection processes by providing a faster and more accurate way to balloon CAD drawings and…
Michael R. Frecks
Managing point data sets is already a concern for clients. Now the surveying industry promotes its efficiency at the cost of best practices with a million-point-per-second milestone. Check out the article, “Optech Breaks 1m/sec Barrier,” in the Oct. 5, 2010, issue of SparView. I liken this…
LRQA Business Assurance
(LRQA: London) -- Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) has renewed its commitment to “business assurance” as the foundation of its brand, a move management believes better illustrates the wider benefits that its global service portfolio brings to the market.
The announcement came as the…
Jon Miller
The Toyota Production System (TPS) house diagram is often drawn with a triangular roof, a rectangular foundation, and two rectangular columns between the foundation and roof. The space between the columns is filled with one’s choice of the systems, tools, and principles to suit the lean enterprise…
(The Graduate School: Washington, DC) -- The W. Edwards Deming Award is awarded annually to a government organization that demonstrates transformative training excellence. The award encourages organizations to pursue employee education initiatives that will measurably improve the organization’s…
(Tiger Optics LLC: Warrington, PA) -- The HALO-500-H2O, 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…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- AIAG, a not-for-profit, member-supported organization that works with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers to help them operate at peak performance, announced the publication of Recommended Business Practices for Long-Distance Supply Chains, a…
(GE Measurement & Control Solutions: Huerth, Germany) -- The new DMS Go from GE’s Inspection Technologies is a high-end thickness gauge that provides accurate and comprehensive thickness-inspection data in a range of selectable formats. It incorporates joystick control, a high all-round…
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology has announced King Machine as a new distributor of Zeiss metrology equipment for Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. King Machine, with a Precision Measurement Center in Boise (Meridian), Idaho, will represent the full line of Zeiss…
(University of Illinois: Champaign, IL) -- The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois. The new microscopy technique, called “nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging” (NIVI), was…
David Smithstein
I recently read an article on the Quality Digest website titled, “Deming, Systems Thinking, and the Future,” by Tripp Babbitt, who specializes in systems thinking. His article starts with, “W. Edwards Deming did a great disservice. He left a prescription for what the United States should do to…
