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(Summit Optimization Group LLC: Lizella, GA) -- Summit Optimization Group LLC (Summit OG), a woman-owned consulting firm specializing in the implementation of process improvement methodologies, has announced HEART and HEARTRx for change management with new deployment strategies and leadership…
Aly Fields
Editor’s note: Several weeks ago, a young woman by the name of Aly Fields contacted us wanting to learn more about “quality” in general and Six Sigma in particular. A recent college graduate, Aly had taken it upon herself to earn a Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Why? Read her own words below. What…
Mark R. Hamel
I recently experienced the pain associated with coaching a team with poor chemistry. It happened within a kaizen event team, so the pain was finite, being that a kaizen event is a rapid improvement of a limited process area. It was, however, an opportunity to learn a few team-formulation lessons,…
ASTM International
(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- Three-dimensional laser scanning is an emerging technology that holds great promise for capturing dimensionally accurate information about an object or scene by collecting millions of dense measurements quickly. ASTM International Committee E57 on 3-D imaging…
ZWSOFT
(ZWSOFT: Guangzhou, China) -- ZWCAD Software Co. Ltd. (ZWSOFT), a provider of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, announces the release of ZW3D 2010, a complete 3-D CAD/CAM suite that provides ease of use, performance, and super-fast modeling functionality…
Paton Professional
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- Thousands of aerospace manufacturers and engineers around the world use AS9100 as a guide to making quality parts and a way to comply with governmental regulations, but the upcoming revision to the standard—revision C—is still somewhat of a mystery. In this…
Promess Inc.
(Promess: Brighton, MI) -- Promess Inc. has launched a new microprocessor-based, handheld meter for calibration, certification, and verification of both laboratory and production measuring equipment. The new PRO-CM16 includes a digital sensor interface, for automatic detection of torque and force…
InfinityQS
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- Representatives from Kraft, Medtronic, Procter & Gamble, and others will be giving presentations about how their companies are leveraging manufacturing quality to increase productivity and lower costs at InfinityQS’ fourth-annual SPC software user conference,…
(Quantros: San Francisco) -- Quantros, a provider of clinically-focused data management and decision support solutions for the health care industry, demonstrated several new patient safety and quality improvement solutions at the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) Annual…
TE Connectivity
(Macro Sensors: Pennsauken, NJ) -- Macro Sensors’ linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) position sensors offer right-angle configurations, double-ended accessibility, and debris-free operation. Due to the radially mounted electrical connector and bending radius of the mating cable, the…
Marvin Marshall
Leadership would be easy if it weren’t for those we lead. As any leader or manager knows, getting people to actually want to do the tasks you need them to do can be a challenge. People will not fully commit to a task unless they’re motivated to desire your goals and objectives or the reason behind…
Sal Lucido
Figure 1: Closed-loop process for managing regulatory compliance
In Part I, Part II, and Part III of this compliance series, I have described the benefits of using a closed-loop process for managing regulatory compliance (illustrated in figure 1).
Readers of this series…
Donald J. Wheeler
In my August column, “How to Turn Capability Indexes Into Dollars,” and my September column, “The Gaps Between Performance and Potential,” I showed how to convert capability indexes into the effective cost of production and use (ECP&U), and how to use these costs to quantify the payback for…
Trimble Navigation Ltd.
(Trimble: Sun City, South Africa) -- At the XIV International Congress of the International Society for Mine Surveying in South Africa, Trimble Navigation Ltd. introduced two new advanced features for its Trimble 4D Control software solution for monitoring systems. The new features include support…
Automation Technology GmbH
(Automation Technology: Bad Oldesloe, Germany ) -- With the new CX-Compact Sensors, Automation Technology presents a new generation of detector-heads for high-speed 3-D scanning. Its core comprises the world’s fastest high-resolution-sensors, available with a resolution of 2352 × 1728 pixels and a…
Sparta Systems Inc.
(Sparta Systems: Holmdel, NJ) -- In the past 12 months, the food and beverage industry has seen major recalls due to contaminants and bacteria present in a multitude of products. These recalls have cost companies millions of dollars in revenue, resulted in discarded supplies, and even caused…
Optech Inc.
(Optech: Toronto) -- Optech Inc., a manufacturer of advanced light detection and ranging (LIDAR) survey instruments, has released the new Intelligent Laser Ranging and Imaging System-Long Range (ILRIS-LR). This long-range 3-D laser imaging system has greater range and higher point density…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Every day is a metric day at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). But that won’t stop the agency from celebrating Metric Week, held annually the week of Oct. 10—the tenth day of the tenth month.
This year marks the 34th annual celebration of…
(CAP: Northfield, IL) -- Medical laboratories and health care organizations increasingly face the challenge of needing to do more with less. Yet, the expectation of continuous high quality patient care—which includes competitively priced fees—remains high. To help meet these expectations, the…
Stewart Anderson
Jack Welch, the famous and former CEO of General Electric (GE), once said that the markets in which GE competed were “brutally Darwinian.” The expression is apt because competitive markets always enforce a natural selection where only the fittest firms survive. As in nature, firms that can’t…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Scientists have long known that time passes faster at higher elevations—a curious aspect of Einstein’s theories of relativity that previously has been measured by comparing clocks on the Earth’s surface and a high-flying rocket. Now, physicists at the National Institute…
Donald Jasurda
The value of ongoing maintenance and prevention is no secret. We know we can save a lot of anguish and money by taking preventive actions today and every day to avoid major problems later. This principle also applies to the quality of the products designed each day by engineers.
The “…
Donald Jasurda
The value of ongoing maintenance and prevention is no secret. We know we can save a lot of anguish and money by taking preventive actions today and every day to avoid major problems later. This principle also applies to the quality of the products designed each day by engineers.
The “…
SPAR Point Group
(Spar Point Research LLC: Danvers, MA) -- SPAR Europe and Plant-Tech have joined forces to present an event on 3-D data integration and new 3-D technology applications across a range of industries, with a special focus on industrial plants, but also encompassing urban modeling, transportation,…
Spatial Corp.
(Spatial Corp.: Broomfield, CO) -- Spatial Corp., a provider of 3-D development components for design, manufacturing, and engineering applications, provides computer-aided design (CAD) translation with product manufacturing information (PMI) to Toyota Caelum Inc. for use in its latest software…
