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(Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ: London) -- Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ is proud to announce the Healthcare Process Improvement Network (H-PIN), the online and face-to-face information resource for lean Six Sigma (LSS) and process improvement professionals in the health care…
(EtQ Inc.: Farmingdale, NY) -- EtQ announces the recent release of its failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) module, which enables organizations to better analyze product and process design, reduce the time taken to study effects, and mitigate the risk of potential failures.
The need for…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- While continuing to focus on methods of testing for two-sided equivalence, the second edition of Testing Statistical Hypotheses of Equivalence and Noninferiority (CRC Press, 2010) gives much more attention to noninferiority testing. Author Stefan Wellak covers a…
(Business901: Fort Wayne, IN) -- The Best in Market eBook was written in response to what author Eric Reidenbach, Ph.D., has experienced in creating and measuring value, the best leading indicator of market share growth. The book is aimed at quality personnel, including lean and Six Sigma…
(Zontec Inc.: Cincinnati) -- Zontec Inc., the international developer of statistical process control (SPC) software, is making a free downloadable version of The Book of Statistical Process Control to members of the quality assurance community.
Written by Zontec for nonstatisticians, the…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- For more than 50 years, Juran’s Quality Handbook has been the definitive reference to quality management and engineering. Juran’s Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, Sixth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2010)—the first revision in 10 years—…
(Quantum Associates: Northbrook, IL) -- Quantum Associates Inc. has developed its new data analysis tool because they discovered that during their work with service and manufacturing organizations, data are often collected for the sake of collecting data and cannot be put into a format to make…
In the January 2010 issue of MoreNews, we discussed “Simpson’s Paradox,” a well-known phenomenon that can distort causal relationships in data sets in the presence of a confounder or covariate. In this article, we will talk about some practical ways to guard against becoming the victim of this…
(University Alliance: Tampa, FL) -- There’s no doubt that professionals with the right post-recession skills will have the best career options. That same knowledge can also strengthen their bank accounts, according to a U.S. News University Directory article featured in the latest University…
(Productivity Europe: Olney, UK) – Productivity Europe presents Visual Workplace—Visual Thinking, a two-day workplace seminar conducted by Gwendolyn Galsworth, Ph.D., July 6–7, held at Britvic Soft Drinks in Rugby, England. At the seminar learn principles, concepts, models, methods, and tools that…
(IQPC: New York) -- The International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) will hold its 10th Lean Six Sigma for Biotech, Pharma, and Medical Device Excellence event in San Diego, July 26–28, at the Hilton San Diego Resort.
Explore how to leverage lean Six Sigma and operational excellence by…
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Smarter Solutions Inc. presents the webinar, “Design of Experiments in Multi-Industry Processes: Reducing Lead Times and Defective Rates,” on Wednesday, June 16, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CDT.
Design of experiments (DOE) provides a structured approach where a…
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently granted patent rights to MoreSteam.com for inventions developed by MoreSteam’s president, Bill Hathaway. The patent covers advances introduced by MoreSteam several years ago in its popular EngineRoom data analysis…
(Quality Assurance Solutions: Camarillo, CA) -- Quality Assurance Solutions announces the release of Snap Sampling Plans! software for establishing sampling plans for inspection quality control. Every manufacturing company needs to inspect product to ensure it meets requirements. The inspection…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the world. So much so that OEE is quickly becoming a requirement for improving…
(Devista: Amstelveen, The Netherlands) -- Devista released Teamwork Planner 2.0, its Gantt chart planning tool for Windows XP and Vista 7. Teamwork Planner targets project managers of teams of two to 12 people and replaces the spreadsheets that many project managers use to do their planning.…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Filling a gap in current Bayesian theory, Murray Aitkin’s Statistical Inference: An Integrated Bayesian/Likelihood Approach (CRC Press, 2010) presents a unified Bayesian treatment of parameter inference and model comparisons that can be used with simple diffuse…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Telefónica, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, took top honors, winning the Gold Award in the 25th International Team Excellence Award Process at the 2010 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement, held May 24–26, in St. Louis. A dynamic finalist competition included 28…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The new book, Design and Analysis of Experiments with SAS, is a culmination of author John Lawson’s many years of consulting and teaching. It provides practical guidance on the computer analysis of experimental data. The book connects the objectives of research to…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- A long-time advocate of lean practices, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) member and author, Mark Hamel, has been awarded The Shingo Prize Research and Professional Publications Award for the Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Work for…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS has announced that Donald J. Wheeler will be the keynote speaker for Infusion 2010, the fourth annual user conference for InfinityQS quality systems. Infusion 2010 will be held at The Westin Grand in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 24–27.
Wheeler is a fellow…
(Phillips Precision: Boylston, MA ) -- Users of coordinate measuring machines (CMM) are quality control inspectors that may be measured on their contributions to improved inspection processes. A brand-new line of inspection work-holding devices from Phillips Precision, designed with lean…
(Informatica Corp.: Redwood City, CA) -- Informatica Corp., an independent provider of enterprise data integration software, has released the industry’s first book about applying lean principles to the challenges of enterprise data and process integration, entitled Lean Integration: An…
(Minitab: State College, PA) -- Minitab Inc. has released Minitab 16 Statistical Software, the latest version of the leading software used for quality improvement and statistics education.
Minitab 16 offers new functionality and features. The most prominent is the Assistant, a menu-based tool…
(Productivity Press: NY) -- One size does not fit all. While Jack Welch is very intelligent, he doesn’t know other businesses as well as those who work in them every day. Many companies have invested heavily in process improvement, because GE and other large companies did, only to be disappointed…