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Sal Lucido
The compliance department’s primary function is to ensure that the company complies with all applicable regulations, rules, and laws. Regardless of the industry—life science, energy and utilities, or financial services—this is a universal mandate.
As someone who serves customers across many…
Quality Assurance Solutions
(Quality Assurance Solutions: Camarillo, CA) -- Quality Assurance Solutions announces the release of Snap Sampling Plans! software for establishing sampling plans for inspection quality control. Every manufacturing company needs to inspect product to ensure it meets requirements. The inspection…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is informing all stakeholders that ISO 50001—“Energy management systems—Requirements with guidance for use,” a standards development initiative of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), has been recently…
Fujitsu Ltd.
(Fujitsu Ltd.: Tokyo) -- Fujitsu Ltd. announces the development of the world’s first computer-aided design (CAD) engine, designed to be used as part of a 3-D CAD system for designing machinery that is capable of processing data for 1 million parts in 0.2 seconds.
The new engine features…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Eighty-three organizations are in the running for the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence through innovation and improvement. Applicants include three manufacturers, two service…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the world. So much so that OEE is quickly becoming a requirement for improving…
(Methods Machine Tools Inc.: Sudbury, MA) -- Methods Machine Tools Inc., a supplier of innovative precision machine tools, has announced that it is the exclusive distributor of New VisionGauge Digital Optical Comparators throughout North America. These digital optical comparators, developed by…
SPAR Point Group
(Spar Point Research LLC: Danvers, MA) -- Spar Point Research LLC invites presentation abstracts for the SPAR Europe 2010 conference, which will be combined with Plant-Tech 2010, Dec. 7–8, at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Center. Deadline for abstracts is Friday, July 2.
The conference focuses…
Tom Greaves
Nearly 30 years ago, Autodesk led the charge to bring computer-aided design (CAD) to the masses, winning over millions of users. Some of the company's success is attributable to engaging the hearts and minds of entrepreneurial, third-party developers who built software businesses on top of the…
Jon Miller
In a recent e-mail, a reader of my blog asked me, “How can we enhance top management commitment and involvement for implementing total productive maintenance (TPM)?”
This is a great general question to ask during any effort to establish excellence, maintain excellence, or transform excellence…
APICS--The Association for Operations Management
(APICS: Chicago) -- The 2010 APICS International Conference & Expo, “Excellence in the New Normal,” sponsored by APICS (The Association for Operations Management), is the highest quality educational experience for professionals in supply chain and operations management. Due to the spring…
Automated Precision Inc.
(API: Rockville, MD) -- Northrop Grumman Corp. has successfully deployed the Volumetric Error Compensation (VEC) service from Automated Precision Inc. (API) to achieve higher accuracies on its large volume machine tools. Seeking greater machine-tool accuracy for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter…
Fluke Corp.
(Fluke Corp.: Everett, WA) --Fluke Corp., a global provider of electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced the new Fluke 5080A calibrator, engineered to accurately and easily calibrate analog and digital test instruments. International quality standards such as ISO 9001, as well as…
(Destination CRM: New York) -- Customer relationship management (CRM) is a companywide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability by solidifying customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. True CRM brings together information from all data sources within an…
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- With the latest version of its standard measuring software CALYPSO, Carl Zeiss offers additional functions with outstanding properties for users of measuring technology. CALYPSO 5.0 further improves measuring efficiency, whether it's generating measuring plans…
(Devista: Amstelveen, The Netherlands) -- Devista released Teamwork Planner 2.0, its Gantt chart planning tool for Windows XP and Vista 7. Teamwork Planner targets project managers of teams of two to 12 people and replaces the spreadsheets that many project managers use to do their planning.…
Keithley Instruments Inc.
(Keithley Instruments Inc.: Cleveland) -- Many people need to make electrical measurements but are not necessarily experts in that field. Countless applications such as current, voltage, resistivity, and temperature often require measurements to a quality level that is not easily achievable.…
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- Carl Zeiss presents CALIGO, the new measuring software specially developed for car-body parts and free-form surfaces. Its optically impressive design and clearly structured interface make this measuring software very intuitive. Modular system architecture…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Filling a gap in current Bayesian theory, Murray Aitkin’s Statistical Inference: An Integrated Bayesian/Likelihood Approach (CRC Press, 2010) presents a unified Bayesian treatment of parameter inference and model comparisons that can be used with simple diffuse…
Spectronics Corp.
(Spectronics Corp.: Westbury, NY) -- The Spectroline FC-150 ultrahigh intensity UV inspection lamp has a built-in fan that reduces operating temperatures and prevents the lamp from becoming too hot to handle. This ensures greater comfort and safety for nondestructive testing (NDT) inspectors.…
National Association for Healthcare Quality
The Toyota Production System and U.S. health care improvement share a long history. What lessons can health care leaders learn from Toyota’s recent production troubles? A few experts recently discussed this on WIHI, an audio program sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Here…
Jon Padfield
On the evening of April 14, I boarded a plane to London, where I was scheduled to teach a series of continuous improvement classes. The following morning, as my flight neared the United Kingdom, the pilot announced that our flight was being diverted to Brussels due to a cloud of volcanic ash…
Tripp Babbitt
I challenge myself each day to hear something different. Sometimes this is about education, liberals, conservatives, tree-huggers, or many other opinions and topics that counter my perspective. For me, this develops new perspectives on problems and issues that service organizations face, even if…
(DrScore.com: Winston-Salem, NC) -- Patients’ interest in directing their own health care, combined with increasing comfort using online sources to seek and share information, are reasons why the physician-rating website DrScore.com has experienced a dramatic increase in traffic and physician…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The 2010 Baldrige Regional Conferences are set for Sept. 14 in Newport Beach, California, at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Spa; and Sept. 28 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs. The conferences will showcase the best practices of 12 or…
