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Accu-Sort Systems
(Accu-Sort Systems: Telford, PA) -- An industry first, the AccuLazr AL5010 laser barcode scanner from Accu-Sort Systems Inc., which designs, builds, installs, and supports advanced auto ID systems, now offers user access via the iPhone and iPad. A smartphone or tablet PC can now be used to remotely…
MIT News
A team of MIT researchers has developed a way of making a high-temperature version of a kind of materials called photonic crystals, using metals such as tungsten or tantalum. The new materials—which can operate at temperatures up to 1,200°C—could find a wide variety of applications powering…
Geomagic
(Geomagic: Morrisville, NC) -- Geomagic, a global provider of 3-D software for creating and inspecting digital models of physical objects, will be demonstrating its latest 3-D reverse-engineering and inspection software products throughout the SolidWorks World 2012, scheduled for Feb. 12–15, 2012,…
Gartner
(Gartner: Stamford, CT) -- The Gartner Business Process Management Summit is the largest, most comprehensive business process management (BPM) conference in the industry. The summit is for business and IT executives committed to improving business processes and driving high-performance results.…
NSF International
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, an independent global organization that writes public health standards and certifies products for food, water, and consumer goods, now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action’s (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program.…
WCBF
(WCBF: Chicago) -- The Worldwide Conventions and Business Forums (WCBF), an independent organization headquartered in Chicago that researches and produces high-quality, senior-level lean, Six Sigma, and process excellence events, has a predominant mission for 2012. Its mission is to save as many…
University at Buffalo
(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- The ISO 13485 internal auditor training program from the University at Buffalo provides the skills necessary to perform process audits in the medical device industry, which results in findings for continual improvement. Participants learn audit activities and…
Jason W. Womack
Your plane hasn’t even left its gate, and you already feel defeated by another harried day of travel. You hit every red traffic light on the way to the airport; you waited, frustrated, in a slow-moving check-in line; and you went through the usual hassle (and occasional humiliation) required to…
NIST
The great artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research engineer Javier Atencia certainly believes in the wisdom of what da Vinci preached; he has a reputation for creating novel…
Oscar Combs
This case study provides an overview of the design, development, implementation, and subsequent management of a total quality management (TQM) system developed for the international division of the largest drilling contractor in the world, which is based in Houston. The TQM system covered all…
CMSC
(CMSC: New Orleans, LA) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society, the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced that its 28th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) will be held July 16–20, 2012, in New Orleans at The Roosevelt Hotel. The five-day…
Direct Dimensions Inc.
The city of Rome is one of the most popular destinations in the world owing to its culture, architecture, and especially the art that remains from its ancient citizens. Every year millions of people visit the travertine stone remains of the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, and other sites, wondering what…
Meggitt
(Meggitt: San Juan Capistrano, CA) -- Meggitt Sensing Systems, designer and manufacturer of high-performance sensing and monitoring systems for air and land-based machinery in extreme environments, has introduced the Endevco model 28959F/28959FV, a portable accelerometer shaker and calibration…
ASTM International
(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- For several years, the ASTM International Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics has been preserving military sampling standards no longer supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. The latest ASTM standard to emerge from this program is ASTM E2819—“Practice for…
Fluke Corp.
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Corp., a global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced the 430 Series II three-phase power quality analyzers, the first tools to use a patented algorithm to measure energy waste and quantify its cost. The 430 Series II helps…
Tim Lozier
Seems like the “next best thing” is always coming out. I’m not one of those people who miss the good old days; I always marvel at what we have in the modern world. I feel like TV shows have gotten better, consumer products are better, my kid’s toys are cooler, and technology is smarter and sleeker…
Forrest Breyfogle—New Paradigms
In one section of the January 25, 2012, Wall Street Journal, several articles pointed to an underlying dysfunction in companies from diverse industries. Although they offered different products and services, they all had one thing in common: Employees may have been working their hardest, but their…
STR-Registrar LLC
(STR-R: Stroudsburg, PA) -- STR-Registrar (STR-R), a leading provider of management system registration services, recently became the first certification body to receive accreditation from ACLASS for its good manufacturing practices (GMP) factory-assessment program for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs…
ARTEL
(Artel: Westbrook, ME) -- Tecan, developer and manufacturer of solutions in the life science supply industry, has partnered with Artel the worldwide leader in liquid handling quality assurance to offer the QC Kit, a fully integrated performance verification solution for Tecan’s Freedom EVO liquid…
Jude Holmes
I recently went to the movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, starring an incredible new young actor named Thomas Horn, along with Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. There is a scene in the movie when Oskar (Horn) and his dad (Hanks) are having an oxymoron war, saying things like “deafening…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Organizations need to continually manage risks in their supply-chain operations. A no-cost webinar offered by the American Society for Quality (ASQ)—the world’s largest network of quality resources and experts—spotlights how ISO 28000—“Specification for security management…
Land Instruments International
(Land Instruments: Dronfield, England) -- A new monitoring system for critical vessels uses thermal imaging cameras to provide higher measurement density than traditional systems based on thermocouples. The Critical Vessel Monitoring System from Land Instruments International, a unit of AMETEK,…
Mahr Inc.
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal, manufacturer of production dimensional measuring technology, will feature the addition of an economical and powerful skidless surface evaluation system to its MarSurf line of mobile surface metrology systems at Quality Expo Texas 2012, scheduled for…
FDA
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and representatives from the medical device industry have reached an agreement in principle on proposed recommendations for the third reauthorization of a medical device user fee program.
The recommendations would authorize the FDA…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Danish Standards (DS, the ISO member for Denmark) have jointly published a handbook on geometrical product specifications (GPS) for which nearly 120 ISO standards provide a globally harmonized base for technical drawing,…
