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An online database of standards related to homeland security is another step the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is taking to improve defense procedures. The American National Standards Institute is combining forces with the DHS to provide a reliable resource to enable federal,…
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After he’s done with his daily duties as an electronics manufacturing service engineer, Bill Clarke uses his skills in creating workstations and computers to re-create a piece of American history. Clarke uses CoCreate Software’s OneSpace Designer Modeling solution to model the U.S.S.…
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StatSoft will hold a training seminar for its STATISTICA software program in Toronto, Aug. 12-13. The course is designed to instruct participants on how to take advantage of the software’s numerous statistical and graphical tools. Step-by-step examples will be given on how to enter and…
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently announced that it plans to establish a new certification program for Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set software. Many types of organizations use the HEDIS software to meet specialized data reporting and quality…
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Global purchasing executives from DaimlerChrysler Corp., Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. will speak about the importance of collaboration between automakers and suppliers at the Auto-Tech conference on Sept. 1. Speakers include Thomas W. Sidlik, DaimlerChrysler Corp. executive vice…
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Help is just a click away for executives, engineers or anyone else looking for an accredited lab to perform vital testing services. Launched in June, the Web site www.accreditedlaboratories.com lists labs accredited by A2LA, ACLASS, LAB, NVLAP and NQA-LS, among other state and federal…
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FARO Technologies is putting its proverbial show on the road with a summer concert tour. FARO Gage’s Screaming For Accuracy tour will visit 15 U.S. and Canadian cities this summer, along with eight cities in Europe and seven cities in Asia. Members of the media, machinists and quality…
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Relex Software Corp. recently announced that its Relex FRACAS Management System 2.2 is now available to the public. FRACAS is an acronym for Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System. Relex 2.2 gathers and tracks failure data in a centralized database, allowing underlying…
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The Civil Aviation Safety Symposium has been approved for Federal Aviation Administration training credits and RUs from the American Society for Quality. Attendance at the CASS is now FAA-approved for 16 hours under 14 CFR 65.93(a)(4) and AC 65-25BU, and meets Board of Certified Safety…
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Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology and the Italian company Coord3 recently reached an agreement to develop and distribute bridge-type coordinate measuring machines. Both companies hope the deal will increase their profit shares in the competitive industry. For Carl Zeiss, it also presents…
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Pilgrim Software, a provider of enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, announced recently that Genzyme Corp. has successfully implemented Pilgrim’s SmartCAPA solution at its Framingham, Massachusetts facility. Prior to implementing SmartCAPA, Genzyme, a global…
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Caterpillar Inc. and StatSoft Inc. are collaborating to develop and market software solutions for the modeling, optimization and simulation of complex manufacturing processes. The software will be based on the integration of Caterpillar’s analytic processes with StatSoft’s STATISTICA…
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Representatives from 14 countries, along with Alan Bryden, ISO’s secretary-general, met in Kazakhstan last month for the 25th session of the Interstate Council of the Euro-Asian Standardization Cooperation. Bryden delivered a speech on “International Standards in the Global Economy” and…
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A new reference guide promises to make implementing complicated business improvement projects significantly easier for DMAIC and Six Sigma team leaders. Oaktree, an online reference guide developed by Pivotal Resources, offers users access to an extensive data repository containing more than…
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Citing frequent customer frustration at the amount of work required to start a Six Sigma or DMAIC project using MINITAB software, Rath & Strong released a new guide showing industry workers the easiest way to do just that. The new Guide to MINITAB 14 incorporates a two-level approach…
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The Quality Group recently entered into an agreement with the authors of the best-selling Memory Jogger series and Sailing Through Six Sigma to supply content for TQG’s online e-learning solutions. Over the past decade and a half, Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter have authored and…
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Six Sigma Qualtec has released the latest version of its SixNet Intelligence System, SixNet v. 2.7. The upgraded version of SixNet offers users more flexibility to control the methodologies, configurations, tools and templates associated with Six Sigma projects. The application fully…
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Blue Mountain Quality Resources Inc. recently added a training facility to its offices in State College, Pennsylvania. The new facility is designed to accommodate up to six trainees and offers leading-edge technology and equipment specifically for calibration manager training. “The training…
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IOtech’s new PC-based data acquisition and instrumentation catalog includes five new product platforms. The offerings include the ZonicBook 618E family of Ethernet-based portable vibration analysis and monitoring systems, which are available with five software packages tailored to…
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The Society of Manufacturing Engineers recognized several of its members for their achievements in manufacturing, education, science and technology at its annual awards banquet in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 11. “We are pleased to honor the considerable contributions of these manufacturing…
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The National Association of Homebuilders recently recognized two of its member companies for their successful quality and customer satisfaction pilot programs. The trade association certified Grayson Homes and KB Home’s Las Vegas division under its new National Housing Quality Program pilot…
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IBS America Inc. will leverage technology from Trilog Group Inc. to expand its QSi Web system from Lotus Notes and Domino to open platforms, the company announced this week. The QSi Web system is a Web-based platform independent solution that helps organizations comply with and…
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The metrology division of Leica Geosystems has successfully completed a landmark data collection project with Caterpillar Inc. The four-day project captured a D9 bulldozer’s track-in-motion data as well as other important 3-D coordinate data derived from the bulldozer’s surface and…
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As a result of its acquisition of Entela Inc., Intertek Group LLC will now maintain registrations for Entela’s non-automotive clients. The change will become effective with clients’ next regularly scheduled surveillance audit. Certificate holders will not need to do anything differently…
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TUV America will host a series of Webinars aimed at giving quality professionals valuable insights into quality management systems. The online seminars, which last 90 minutes each, allow participants to join a live Web cast of subject material in their own offices. The next quality-related…
