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FDA
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces that it has commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study the premarket notification program used to review and clear certain medical devices marketed in the United States.
The IOM study will examine the…
(CEESI: Boulder, CO) -- CEESI would like to invite you to the 2010 Ultrasonic Meter User’s Workshop in Singapore. This annual event, which is modeled after the Ultrasonic Meter Seminar held previously in Colorado, brings together a wealth of information as well as new ideas and new questions…
NDI
(NDI: Waterloo, ON, Canada) -- NDI has expanded the versatility of its OPTOTRAK PROseries portable coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with the addition of the wireless Universal Probe Controller. This new addition provides complete freedom of movement for all of the NDI probing options. When…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl’s best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently found1 that the gems might turn out to be a patient’s best friend as well.
The team’s work…
Georgia Institute of Technology
Envision a distasteful trip to the curb to take out the trash as a pleasant—and profitable—stroll.
Some juiceless batteries—those are good for a few cents. An old keyboard might fetch a couple of bucks. Even that empty box of Pop-Tarts might be worth something.
No need to sort these discards…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Cambridge, UK) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., recently announced a new application note to illustrate the capabilities of its Thermo Scientific iCAP 6200 ICP spectrometer for the analysis of toxic trace elements in children’s toys. The dual-view inductively coupled…
DNV
(DNV Certification: Houston) -- How do I get started with food safety certification? What’s the process? What are the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarked standards and which is best for my organization?
Do these questions sound familiar? Do you have more?
Attend "Food Safety…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- Traditionally, major automakers including Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Honda of America Mfg. Inc., and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., conduct their own corporate social responsibility initiatives.
They are…
(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Leica Viva is a new generation measurement system that combines state-of-the-art technologies into a portfolio of total stations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers, system controllers, and on-board software. Innovative features and functional…
In conjunction with its Quality Expo sponsors, Automated Precision Inc. (API) and Veeco Instruments Inc., Quality Digest gave away a 32-inch flat screen television to one lucky winner during the last day of Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois.
At Quality Expo, API was featuring the API Tracker3…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced at the Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois, the immediate availability of analog scanning packages on entry level Brown & Sharpe Global Classic coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
Scanning packages are…
(J.P.E. Consulting LLC ) -- J.P.E. Consulting LLC has released their new SIX SIGMA iPhone application. The application was officially released Friday, Sept. 18, and is available for purchase on the iTunes App Store in 23 countries.
The SIX SIGMA iPhone application is designed to be a quick…
Raissa Carey
As auto making evolves and cars increasingly become simply computers on wheels, independent repair shops are facing a new kind of problem: trying to decode and read cars’ on-board computer systems in order to diagnose problems and hopefully repair them.
It’s common knowledge that automakers…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available “meter stick” for the nano world, the…
Olympus
(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Industrial engineers, quality control inspectors, and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3. In industrial laboratory…
Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group
(Palmer Wahl: Asheville, NC) -- Wahl Instruments Inc. is proud to announce the Wahl Heat Spy Portable Calibration Black Body, an ambient temperature black body used for single point calibration verification and checking of thermal imaging cameras and point infrared thermometers. With an accuracy…
Advantest Corp.
(Advantest: Tokyo) -- Advantest Corp. announces that it has successfully developed the world’s first terahertz (THz) wave imaging system, using Advantest’s original terahertz-wave technology, for nondestructive 3-D analysis and inspection. The system is the first product developed within the…
GBMP
(GBMP: Worcester, MA) -- On Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 7–8, hundreds of people, those passionate about lean philosophies and those curious to learn more and get started, will descend upon the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, for the 5th Annual Northeast Shingo Prize Conference. The lineup…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The panel of judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence, has selected 15 organizations for the final review stage for the 2009 award. Starting this month, teams of experts in…
Bill Kalmar
Ritz-Carlton employees are passionate, disciplined, and fanatical about their jobs. Over the years, much has been written about the extraordinary customer service you can expect to receive from these bastions of performance excellence. Employees are always seeking to deliver spectacular service,…
Forrest Breyfogle—New Paradigms
A previous article of mine in this newsletter, “NOT Transforming the Data Can Be Fatal to Your Analysis,” addressed the need for appropriate transformations and a predictive performance measurement system.
The statistical business performance charting (SBPC) methodology that was described in…
(New Vista Corp.: Baltimore, MD) -- New Vista Corp. has developed a thread verification unit that is hand-held, the TVU-HH, for the rapid inspection of internal or external threads in production parts. The TVU-HH powers a thread gauge into and out of (or onto and off of) the part. The unit…
News Blaze
(NewsBlaze: Al Asad Airbase, Iraq) -- The Maintenance Platoon with the 47th Transportation Company, 751st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, from Fort Bliss, Texas, keeps the missions moving.
The company’s Maintenance Platoon supports a fleet of 125 pieces of…
Claremont Graduate University
(CGU: Claremont, CA) -- The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and The Drucker Institute have announced the details of the global commemoration and celebration of the life of the late Peter F. Drucker, eminent author, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and…
The University of Iowa
(UI: Iowa City, IA) -- A group of researchers at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business is using the principles of more efficient manufacturing processes in an effort to help contain ever-increasing health care costs.
“Whether you’re talking about health care or manufacturing, lean…
