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Jon Miller
After every major natural disaster that disrupts global supply chains, there are voices that cry out “A-ha! I told you just-in-time inventory doesn’t work!” Recently the Icelandic volcano turned European skies airplane-free for a few days and news programs reported shortages of critical raw…
Toyota Motor Sales
(Toyota, New York) -- Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater has announced the appointment of six safety and quality experts to Toyota’s independent North American Quality Advisory Panel, completing the panel’s membership. The roster of experts, with experience spanning the…
Metronor AS
(Metronor AS: Nesbru, Norway) -- At the Control 2010 fair in Stuttgart, Germany, Metronor presents the new SOLOspin, the first camera-based coordinate measurement system with a 360° field of view, bringing the productivity and user-friendliness of armless hand-held probing to applications in…
The QC Group
(The QC Group: Minneapolis) -- The QC Group, a provider of quality-related inspection, reverse engineering, training, and staffing services for engineering projects, has announced that its QC staffing service is now available in eight states, and its 70-plus different training programs are offered…
Teledyne DALSA
(DALSA Corp.: Billerica, MA) -- DALSA Corp., a global provider of machine vision technology, has announced the availability of a high-resolution model of its BOA vision system, a highly integrated smart camera that comprises all of the elements of an industrial machine vision system. The new BOA…
(Ophir-Spiricon: Logan, UT) -- Ophir-Spiricon, a provider of precision laser measurement equipment, recently announced the PD10-IR-pJ Photodiode Energy Sensors that measure very low energy, down to 30 picojoules (pJ). Part of the PD10 family of high sensitivity silicon laser sensors, the new…
FDA
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking commercial food transporters to follow new guidance the agency issued to reduce the chances of physical, chemical, biological, and other risks during transportation of foods while the agency reviews current…
California Institute of Technology
Arrays of coupled plasmonic coaxial waveguides offer a new approach by which to realize negative-index metamaterials that are remarkably insensitive to angle of incidence and polarization in the visible range.
[Credit: Caltech/Stanley Burgos…
In today’s time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. And if you spend most of your time delegating, organizing, and hypothesizing instead of, you know, actually getting the work done, then it may be time for a little…
Lattice Technology
(Lattice Technology: San Francisco) -- Lattice Technology Inc., the standard for digital mock-up and technical documentation software in the manufacturing enterprise, announces the release of XVL Web Master v. 8.2—the latest update to its ground-breaking application for automatically creating 3-D…
R. Eric Reidenbach Ph.D.
I just read an article that appeared on Quality Digest Daily, “The Quality Crisis in America,” by David C. Crosby. The gist of the article is that the nation is in the midst of a quality crisis that has been with us for a very long time. The problem, according to Crosby, “is that the ‘big boss’—…
InfinityQS
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS has upgraded the IT infrastructure that supports eSPC, the leading software as a service (SaaS) manufacturing quality control system. The upgrade provides superior redundancy, security, performance, and scalability to companies using eSPC to provide…
Solartron Metrology
(Solartron Metrology: Bognor Regis, England) -- The Orbit 3 Network and digital products from Solartron Metrology offers improved accuracy to 0.05 percent of reading, and increased versatility vs. the Orbit 2 product line. The Orbit 3 controllers and modules are 30-percent lighter, offer improved…
ETQ LLC
(EtQ Inc.: Farmingdale, NY) -- EtQ is pleased to announce its upcoming two-day event, which will highlight environmental, health, and safety (EHS) software solutions. Day one, to be held on Wednesday, May 5, at 1 p.m. EDT, will feature a one-hour webinar about the convergence of EHS and quality…
Tripp Babbitt
Like there isn’t enough politics in the workplace! Command and control managers love to rank employees; there needs to be forced ranking by assessment of performance to be considered a good manager and have a well-run company.
Some rank to give bonuses or incentives, and others rank to RIF…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Hexagon Metrology Inc. announced its latest product today at Quality Expo South in Charlotte, North Carolina—the Leica Absolute Tracker AT401, the industry’s first wireless, battery powered laser tracker.
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(Premier Inc.: Charlotte, NC) --With the industry deadline for the adoption of health care data standards rapidly approaching, participants in a Premier health care alliance project are seeing benefits in preparing for implementation that lays the groundwork for improved patient safety and health…
ETQ LLC
(EtQ Inc.: Farmingdale, NY) -- EtQ is pleased to announce the addition of its Product Data Management (PDM) module. EtQ’s PDM tool improves the management of product development through its components, subcomponents, and costs. PDM plays a major part in managing the product life cycle. It helps…
Pinpoint Laser Systems
(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing two new bore alignment accessories for the popular Laser Microgage line. Developed for a large shipyard installing drive shafts, these new mounts can accommodate bore diameters as large as three feet and as small as 2.5…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a world leader in serving science, has announced a series of seminars to showcase the company’s expanding capabilities in food safety testing. The seminar program will take place across Europe May 11–13 and May 18–20. The…
(International Data Corp.: Framingham, MA) -- IDC Manufacturing Insights and IDC Retail Insights have announced the results of a new survey, “Business Strategy and Supply Chain Innovation,” designed to identify the top business and supply chain issues, as well as how manufacturers and retailers…
Camstar Systems Inc.
(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Camstar Systems Inc. recently announced that The Summit on Solar Quality will be held in Santa Clara, California, on June 29. Thought leaders across the solar industry will be represented at this educational event. Topics will focus on the state of quality…
Vision Engineering Ltd.
(Vision Engineering: New Milford, CT) -- Vision Engineering will be showcasing their new and exciting products at MACH 2010, June 7–11, in Birmingham, United Kingdom, including the new Falcon video measuring solution with computer numeric controlled (CNC) option, and the Mantis Elite-Cam—an award…
AICON 3D Systems
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- AICON has launched the unique MI.Probe which combines extraordinary design with technical finesse, and is easy to handle at the same time.
The MI.Probe works in combination with AICON’s portable coordinate measuring machine MoveInspect. This measuring system…
Jeff Liker
The most stunning accomplishment of Toyota during the last 50 years is its turnaround from making “junk” to virtually redefining quality in the auto industry. Toyota was influenced to the core by W. Edwards Deming and quality is evident everywhere in the company. The objective of the Toyota…
