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Lean Frontiers
(Lean Frontiers: Indianapolis) -- The Key Concepts for Lean Leadership workshop, scheduled for June 5–6, 2012 in Indianapolis, is designed for those truly passionate about lean and interested in moving beyond “tools” to a management system with respect for people at its foundation. The workshop is…
Accelper Consulting
(Accelper: Schaumburg, IL) -- In his book, The Innovation Solution (CreateSpace, 2012), Praveen Gupta provides readers with an easy-to-understand, powerful innovation framework for success at the personal and organizational levels. Gupta explains the various aspects of innovation and how it affects…
Katie Gignac
Any company that truly lives its quality management system will tell you that you must innovate to get ahead. Employees at GNP Co., the chicken processor formerly known as Gold’n Plump, live by a commitment to quality, innovation, and continuous improvement— all hallmarks of a culture built on the…
William A. Levinson
The ISO 14001 environmental management systems (EMS) standard and the new ISO 50001 energy management systems (EnMS) standard are complementary, synergistic, and mutually supporting systems for improving stakeholder value. ISO 50001’s proposed reference to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction is, however…
(Chief Executive Group: Greenwich, CT) -- For the eighth year in a row, CEOs rate Texas as the No. 1 state in which to do business, according to Chief Executive magazine’s annual Best & Worst States Survey, released May 2, 2012. Florida rose one spot to take the No. 2 rank, while North Carolina…
Quality Plus Engineering
(Q+E: Portland, OR) -- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is transforming operations and even professions. Quality, engineering, IT, cyber-security, logistics, and supply-management professionals are now operations risk professionals.
The CERM Boot Camp offers in-depth coverage of operational…
Renishaw
(Renishaw: New Mills, UK) -- Renishaw, developer and manufacturer of precision technologies in measurement, motion control, spectroscopy, and precision machining, has purchased the business of R&R Sales LLC, a U.S.-based leader in fixtures for the global measurement and inspection market. The…
A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is now one step closer to reality. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera, which will capture the widest, fastest, and deepest view of the night sky ever observed, has received “Critical Decision…
Umberto Tunesi
Last night on the Italian National Geographic channel, I watched a reconstruction of the November 2011 American Airlines flight No. 587, in which 265 people lost their lives. At the time the cause seemed almost natural and unavoidable: The AA’s Airbus got caught by the turbulence that a JAL 747…
Visual Workplace Inc.
(Visual Workplace: Byron, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc. has introduced Visual Management Layered Learning Modules. This web-based visual management solution consists of six core training modules that include weekly activities and assignments that help participants to learn and carry research-based…
Jay Arthur—The KnowWare Man
Yogi Berra once said, “If people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?” I have found the same is true of statistical process control (SPC).
As the author of the QI Macros SPC Software for Excel, I get emails every week asking, “What’s the right chart to use for my…
Having been involved in quality and process control for quite a few years now, I tend to read any article regarding a quality issue or new ideas for quality or process improvement. Last week, Washington state’s Tri-City Herald published an article by Annette Cary about tanks at a vitrification…
CMSC
(CMSC: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has announced that 27 technical presentations are scheduled for its annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) from July 16–20, 2012, at The Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. Each year, hundreds of 3-D measurement and…
Pilgrim Quality Solutions
(Pilgrim: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a developer and provider of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management (ERCQM) software solutions, has announced the availability of SmartSolve 9.1, the latest and most enhanced version of its integrated process automation platform.
The…
Taran March @ Quality Digest
I’m wondering when we humans started assuming that commerce must be perfect? After all, the adage “let the buyer beware” has been in circulation since folks ran around saying it in Latin. A kind of passivity seems to have crept into transactions. Except for the act of opening one’s wallet, buying…
Mitutoyo Corp.
(Mitutoyo: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp., manufacturer of precision measuring instruments and inspection solutions, announces the opening of the first M3 Solution Center in the south-central region of the United States, located in Birmingham, Alabama. This new, 4,800 sq ft showroom is…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam.com: Denver) -- On Wed., May 23, 2012, MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning technology, and Air Academy Associates, a recognized leader in delivering client results through various improvement methodologies, will sponsor a one-day…
Underwriters Laboratories UL
(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- UL Environment, a business unit of Underwriters Laboratories (UL), has launched of a free web-based tool that will help manufacturers assess their corporate sustainability efforts. Part of UL Environment’s Sustainability Quotient (SQ) Program, this tool provides…
Creaform Inc.
(Creaform: Lévis, Québec) -- Creaform, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of portable 3-D measurement technologies, has introduced the latest improvement to its inspection systems: C-Link functionality.
Through C-Link, it is possible to network up to four C-Tracks and operate them…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- The Food Safety Exchange Conference, sponsored by Mettler-Toledo, will be June 26–27, 2012, in Chicago at the Crowne Plaza. This no-cost, two-day educational conference will bring together food processors, retailers, auditors, standards bodies, trade organizations…
CEESI
(CEESI: Nunn, CO) -- The Colorado Engineering Experiment Station (CEESI) invites participants to the Ultrasonic Meter User’s Workshop, scheduled for June 18–19, 2012, in Colorado Springs. This year’s event marks an opportunity for users to improve their knowledge and use of ultrasonic meters. Five…
Tim Lozier
Quality management, if we’ve learned anything, is a central factor in any manufacturing organization. What’s most compelling is the evolution during the past decade of our perception of quality management. Once thought to be a compartmentalized system in an organization’s infrastructure, quality…
MIT News
“Everyone, take your order slips and move the shipment to the left,” says Nelson Repenning, a professor of systems dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. “Factories, brew beer.”
With that, six groups of high-achieving managers from a major multinational firm, ensconced in MIT’s Building…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Fear of change—we all experience it. Some accept change immediately, some gradually adapt, while others may never get there. Whether it’s poor leadership, the inability to change, or pure ego, this book explores this perplexing commitment to inefficiency.…
The QA Pharm
It stands to reason that pharmaceutical companies in compliance trouble also have problems with their deviation management and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) systems. After all, maintaining a good compliance profile as well as an efficient operation requires the ability to detect problems…
