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Lean Enterprise Institute
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- In this free webinar, “Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata,” on June 28, 2012, at 2 p.m. EDT, lean researcher, author, and thought leader Mike Rother will explore a bit of improvement kata thinking. A kata is a well-rehearsed routine that becomes second nature, and the…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- Estimates from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce indicate that there are between 30 and 50 million individuals who hold some type of credential in the labor market. But how do workers know which credential is right for them? And how do…
Ryan E. Day
Edison, Bell, Carver, Ford. Names synonymous with ingenuity and perseverance. These people inspire me to listen to that small voice that guides and goads my intuition. That voice is rarely wrong, but my translation of intuition into action sometimes leads me to bite off a tad more than I can chew.…
Blom
In recent years the demand for high-accuracy laser data within the infrastructure sector has increased. The market has discovered the benefits of using both existing off-the-shelf laser data, and ordering new laser data-capture systems suited for high-accuracy planning, building, and maintenance…
Andrew Sobel
We’ve all experienced moments when we feel at a loss for words and wish we had been able to think of the right thing to say. Regardless of how tough the situation and conversation gets, no interaction is ever completely lost. You can transform tough conversations—and the relationships they affect—…
Earlier this year, Air Academy Associates helped a large multinational client assess its business improvement capabilities. Only 70 percent of the business leaders there believed quality initiatives were sustainable, while 100 percent of those responsible for the improvement believed the company…
Mike Richman
In recent weeks, you have likely heard a lot of chatter about various conventions, conferences, trade shows, and expos. (A rose by any other name....) If you’re sitting there thinking, “Yeah, and you’re one of the chatterboxes,” I’ll respond, “Guilty as charged.” We have frequently discussed trade…
Chuck Pfeffer
Remember when you got your first bicycle? You probably started riding it with training wheels. Soon enough the training wheels came off, and then you eventually went looking for hills and jumps. At some point, as you became better, you took your hands off the handle bars. There was a liberating…
NDI
(NDI: Waterloo, Canada) -- Northern Digital Inc. (NDI), a developer and manufacturer of optical and electromagnetic measurement systems for medical and industrial applications, announces that David Rath has accepted an appointment to the role of president, succeeding former president and CEO, Jamie…
AICON 3D Systems
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- A new interface for MoveInspect HR, a portable optical measurement system from AICON, a developer of standardized optical 3-D measurement systems, enables its use for free-motion head (FMH) form tests, which are used to determine and reduce the risk of acceleration…
InnovMetric
(InnovMetric Software: Québec City, Québec, Canada) -- Following its strong growth in the U.S. Midwest in recent years, InnovMetric Software has made PolyWorks classroom training sessions available at a new training center in Novi, Michigan. At the cost of $350 per trainee/per day, PolyWorks users…
Breuckmann
(Breuckmann: Meersburg, Germany) -- After dedicating more than 25 years to the realization of his vision, Bernd Breuckmann has retired from the executive board of Breuckmann GmbH. Alexander Poledna, who has supported Breuckmann in his role as executive director since the beginning of 2009, took…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon AB: Stockholm, Sweden) -- Hexagon AB Group, a global provider of integrated design, measurement, and visualization technologies, has acquired all shares in the Norwegian company My Virtual Reality Software AS (myVR), provider of real-time 3-D virtual technology to the oil and gas, building…
Nextec Laser Metrology
(Nextec: Eastlake, OH) -- Nextec Laser Metrology, developer of in-process metrology solutions serving the quality inspection market, has announced its WIZblade turnkey metrology solution for rapid, precision measuring of both aerospace jet-engine blades and industrial turbine and compressor blades…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ), a leading authority on quality in all fields, organizations, and industries, issued more than 6,500 certifications in the United States in 2011 as part of a Manufacturing Institute partnership designed to help fill advanced manufacturing…
Origin
(Origin: Richmond Hill, ON, Canada) -- Origin International has announced the launch of its new website: www.originintl.com. The new pages provide information for quality professionals and manufacturing engineers who rely on Origin’s unique tools to solve their toughest challenges.
“We rebuilt the…
K. R. Karu
Editor’s note: KR Karu will be the guest on Quality Digest Live this Friday, June 22, 2012, at 11 a.m. Pacific.
Recently, Janet Woodcock, M.D., the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), criticized the pharmaceutical industry’s lack…
INUS Technology Inc.
(INUS: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology has released a major update of its flagship reverse engineering software, Rapidform XOR, which combines 3-D scan data processing and parametric solid modeling to give users the ability to create intelligent CAD models from point clouds and polygon…
Geomagic
Geomagic, a developer and global provider of 3-D software for capturing, creating, and inspecting digital models of physical objects, has acquired Sensable Technology Inc.’s 3-D design and haptics businesses. Sensable Technology, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, is a leading developer of volumetric…
Kevin Rudy
If you like baseball pitching statistics, then you’ve loved the month of June. On the first of the month, Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter in Mets history. Then a week later, the Seattle Mariners used six different pitchers to do the same thing, which tied the Major League Baseball record…
Plex Systems Inc.
(Plex: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, a cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturers, has announced its electronics manufacturing and thought leadership webinar, “Achieving Operational Excellence in Electronics Manufacturing,” which will take…
American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI
Major airlines are doing a better job of satisfying their passengers this year, according to a report released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). At 67 (on a scale of zero to 100), customer satisfaction with the airline industry matches its best level in a decade, but there is…
Bill Kalmar
Every now and then an unexpected encounter with an unknown person can affect your thought processes and make you rethink your own mortality. Such an incident occurred several weeks ago at a Panera Bread store in Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. It was on this day that my grandson,…
IndustryPigeon
(IndustryPigeon: Wilmington, NC) -- IndustryPigeon Inc. has launched IndustryPigeon.com, a social trade network designed for industrial trade professionals. The new platform integrates networking and collaboration tools with practical business applications to connect people in trade communities and…
Rip Stauffer
I recently closed the doors of my own consulting company on the prairie in Minnesota and headed back into the wild, wacky, wonderful world of larger consulting groups, joining a group in Northern Virginia. One of the consequences of that transition was that I was unable to meet a couple of speaking…
