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Malcolm Chisholm
I have just finished rereading Walter A. Shewhart's 1939 book Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control (Dover Publications, 1986). Mine is the 1986 edition, which has a foreword by W. Edwards Deming. Shewhart, a Bell Labs man, pioneered quality control and was a major inspiration…
(Mastercam: Tolland, CT) -- Mastercam X4 Lathe has been released with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs. From roughing and finishing to easy grooving and threading, Mastercam Lathe has been designed to reduce programmer interaction and…
Michelle LaBrosse
As a part of my project close-out celebration of the “get the kids into college” project, I decided to celebrate by going back to school myself. So, here I am in Parma, Italy, at the Academia Barilla cooking school through Sur La Table—two organizations that really understand the community around…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- If you’re watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new research1 makes it possible to scrutinize…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Each year the Baldrige Program recruits experts from business, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofit organizations, and other groups to serve on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Examiners evaluate applications…
Camstar Systems Inc.
(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Camstar will show a product demonstration of its nonconformance management solution in a live one-hour web cast on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. EST.
The session will illustrate specific examples of how the solution can help manufacturers:
• Streamline…
Dickson
(Dickson: Addison, IL) -- Quality managers and others responsible for maintaining the integrity of temperature and/or humidity chart recorders or data loggers, can now download a comprehensive guide to all aspects of instrument calibration at www.dicksondata.com/calibration/calibration_order.php…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Critical Success Factors Simplified: Implementing the Powerful Drivers of Dramatic Business Improvement, by Marvin T. Howell (Productivity Press, 2009) simplifies the identification, measurement, and use of critical success factors (CSFs) to successfully implement…
HEIDENHAIN Corp.
(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- The latest HEIDENHAIN ND 1400 Quadra-Chek digital readout (DRO) is designed specifically for manual coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), and can capture two- and three-dimensional features with its measuring computer functionality. This intuitive DRO with its color…
Matrox Imaging
What about parking? It’s a question drivers must consider every time they turn the key in the ignition. Cities have struggled with parking issues since the preautomobile era, however, in those days the question was more likely to be: What about my horse?
Parking automobiles proved to be a…
(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- Human error causes 80 percent of drug manufacturing failures, studies indicate. Discover secrets of reducing human error, improving your products, and fending off the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by attending the FDAnews webinar, “Reducing Human Error on…
GKS Global Services
GKS Inspection Services has been a leading provider of dimensional inspection, 3-D laser scanning, terrestrial scanning, and CT scanning services for more than 25 years. The company’s metrologists and engineers are experienced in the automotive, defense, electronics, and many other manufacturing…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Story update 11/23/2009: Information added on regions covered by this partnership.
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Morris Group Inc. of Windsor,…
University Alliance
(University Alliance: Tampa, FL) -- This year’s University Alliance catalog, titled Online Executive Education, features exclusive savings on more than 50 in-demand online certificate programs from nationally recognized universities including Villanova, Notre Dame, Tulane, and the University of…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Hartwig Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, the largest distributor of computer numeric control (CNC) machine tools and metal cutting…
Rockwell Automation
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation announces the availability of its FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition (ME) software. This machine-level data historian is designed to help manufacturers mitigate the risk of machine downtime and reach continuous process improvement…
Maximum precision is required for the manufacture of medical parts—dental implants, spinal implants, and surgical instruments. Diener AG Precision Machining uses solutions from Carl Zeiss to fulfill and verify these extreme demands on quality.
Customers rely on the on-time delivery of…
MFG.com
(MFG.com: Atlanta) -- MFG.com, the largest global sourcing marketplace for manufacturers, today announced significant advancements to its online platform that are designed to create additional competitive advantages for manufacturers and suppliers of custom parts, standard components, assemblies,…
Paul Scicchitano
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f you’ve been sweating what to get your quality colleagues this holiday season, you might want to pass up that tin of gooey chocolate in favor of a new international self-help standard.
Published on Nov. 1 by the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—the same…
National Association for Healthcare Quality
(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- Over the past three years, Ireland’s public health care system, the Health Service Executive (HSE), has been making health care quality and patient safety issues a critical part of its mission. In 2007, the HSE issued a Quality and Risk Management Standard, setting the…
National Association for Healthcare Quality
(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- As health reform measures make their way through Congress, with the House of Representatives narrowly passing a heath reform bill earlier this month, the issues of universal coverage, cost, and private vs. public delivery have been at the forefront of the discussion. The…
Nikon Metrology NV
(Nikon Metrology NV: Leuven, Belgium) -- The corporate name of Metris has been changed to Nikon Metrology NV. Under the Nikon brand, Nikon and Metris will synergize their respective strengths with regard to technology, marketing, and services, thereby delivering innovative metrology products with…
(Performance Review Institute: Warrendale, PA) -- The penalties for failure to comply with ITAR/EAR regulations are severe and understanding the regulations can be costly. PRI, in partnership with Export Solutions, has simplified export control with proposed solutions at breakeven costs.
In…
Bill Kalmar
Several years ago, I penned a column entitled, “Nurse, I’m Ready for My Cappuccino!” The article was an interview with Gerard van Grinsven, the new CEO and president of the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, which was to be located in a Detroit suburb. At the time of my interview, Van Grinsven…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced that its webstore.ansi.org, a web site for the purchase and download of U.S. and other national, regional, or international standards, now offers the complete collection of standards from the British Standards…
