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Although the information hasn't been officially released in the United States, Nikon Corp. announced on July 25 that its wholly-owned Belgian subsidiary NIMD SPRL has acquired 85.25 percent of the outstanding shares of Metris NV. According to both Metris and Nikon web sites, "As the 85 threshold…
Quality Transformation With David Schwinn
When I started at General Motors (GM) in the 1960s, we were the biggest and best company in the United States and most of the world. As a matter of fact, I believe that only a couple of state industries in Russia surpassed the number of people that GM employed. Many of us, observing the poor…
Bill Kalmar
Before some of you fact checkers write me to explain that locoism is a disease cattle contract by eating loco weed and a malady not inflicted on humans, let me assure you that there are some in our society who dine on this delicacy every day, based on their actions. There are a lot of loco service…
Raissa Carey
TL 9000 is the telecommunication industry’s supplement standard of ISO 9001. It was created in 1998 by Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecommunications Leadership (QuEST) Forum, a group of telecom service providers and suppliers dedicated to telecom supply chain quality and performance.…
(National Instruments: Austin, TX) -- National Instruments (NI) recently announced four new R Series multifunction reconfigurable input/output (RIO) boards for PCI Express that give engineers and scientists the benefits of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology in a widely adopted form…
(Veriteq: Vancouver, BC, Canada) -- Veriteq Instruments recently announced the release of their new viewLinc monitoring and alarming system for regulated controlled environments. The viewLinc 3.4 validatable system provides continuous, gap-free records and automates the generation and delivery of…
(AIAM: Arlington, VA) -- The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) recently filed comments with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing a waiver request that would allow the ethanol content of gasoline to be increased from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15). The…
(Marposs Corp.: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs Corp. will introduce the i-Wave, its newest wireless device in the M1 Star bore gauge product line, at Quality Expo 2009 in booth 4739, Sept. 22–24, in Rosemont, Illinois. The i-Wave wireless handle allows quick and easy plug-and-play changeover of a…
Wiley
(John Wiley & Sons Inc.: Hoboken, NJ) -- The Age of Innovation is here. Without a culture of innovation, you will not stay on top for long. And when you throw the stalled economy into the mix, the bright ideas of your employees may be all that stands between your company and disaster, say…
(SAE: Detroit) -- In the face of a difficult economy, SAE International will phase out its consulting service, the SAE Automotive Resources Institute (ARi) by the end of 2009. The phase-out will be conducted in an orderly manner to ensure that all current projects are completed to the…
Tom Pyzdek
In a recent post on the Evolving Excellence blog, Bill Waddell tackles one of my pet peeves: activity-based costing, or ABC. Few things do more harm to lean Six Sigma than this method of accounting. In fact, it is my opinion that the accounting systems used by U.S. businesses are responsible for a…
Stewart Anderson
Just the other week, I had the privilege of visiting with three or four companies that were doing lean process improvement. In every visit, each company invited me into their “war room” where they took great pride in showing me their process and value-stream maps and the other trappings of their…
(ASD: Birmingham, MI) -- ASD’s GageMux USB simplifies and streamlines data collection. Specifically developed to keep on the cutting edge of technology, the new GageMux USB multiple input gauge interface now has three user selectable outputs of backward compatibility and environmentally friendly…
Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when woven into a web…
Carl Zeiss Microscopy
(Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc.: Thornwood, NY) -- The Primo Star iLED microscope now available with three additional fluorescence attachments that allow users to work with different dyes such as FITC, Dapi, and Rhodamine/Cy 3. This permits the use of the LED-based microscope for single fluorescence…
Raissa Carey
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SO 10002—"Quality management—Customer satisfaction—Guidelines for complaints handling in organizations" helps organizations of all sizes and all sectors to understand and process customer complaints of their products or services, including planning, design, operation, maintenance, and…
(Promess Inc.: Brighton, MI) -- Promess Inc. has added a series of hollow-shaft units to its line of Torque Functional Test (TFT) Systems intended for intelligent assembly applications. Based on direct drive rotary motor technology, the new TFT-HS series permits users to access components with…
ASQ
(American Society for Quality: Milwaukee) -- It's a challenging time for you and your organization. You’re competing in a shrinking marketplace, and you have fewer resources at your disposal. How can you attract new customers, keep your current customers, and improve your bottom line? Attend "…
Stacey Corbin
Joyalukkas Jewellery is one of the world’s favorite jewelers, with a retail chain of more than 70 showrooms across the Middle East, India, and Europe. The company has grown over the past two decades to become a household name for the wide range of contemporary, ethnic, and traditional jewelry it…
Matt Edison
"Innovate at all costs!" This is the exhortation from innumerable business articles and best-selling business books. These authors describe how to innovate but fail to include how to find the time to innovate. What's needed is a tool to help find the time to think about and act on innovation. The…
Laurel Thoennes @ QD
Search the internet for “What is SPC?” and there are many definitions and descriptions of statistical process control that are correct but not complete. They are true but not the whole truth.
From the search results, a general definition and description of SPC could be as follows.
Definition: SPC…
Quality Digest
(Quality Digest: Louisville, KY) -- As first reported in the July 17th issue of Quality Digest Daily, Hexagon Metrology has filed patent infringement litigation against Metris N.V. and its U.S. subsidiary Metris U.S.A. Inc. The basis of that lawsuit, according to court documents obtained by…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology Inc.: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc., on July 21 at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) in Louisville, Kentucky, announced the North American debut of the new Leica TDRA6000 Total Station, the most accurate Leica Geosystems total station ever…
(Lattice Technology Inc.: San Francisco) -- Lattice Technology, developers of digital manufacturing applications using the extensible virtual world description language (XVL) format, today announced Version 6.0 of its XVL Converter applications, delivering the tools to convert 3-D CAD data into…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The ISO Annual Report 2008 highlights the ability of International Standards to provide confidence during the current global financial crisis.
"Refined to its essence, the objective of ISO standards is to provide confidence," the report states. "When a product or service meets…
