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(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), developer and promoter of solutions to help manufacturing and service providers operate at peak performance, has introduced a new membership benefits package designed to provide automotive manufacturers and suppliers easier…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Managers responsible for selecting suppliers or responsible for purchasing decisions now have available an attractive hard copy version of the ISO brochure, “ISO 9001 in the Supply Chain,” up to now published uniquely as a web document.
Goods and services are commonly promoted as…
(AMA: New York) -- Women negotiate all day, every day, often without even realizing they are in a bargaining situation. Whether the negotiation is a small, everyday matter, or a bigger, more structured deal, making the most of these conversations is imperative.
Join the American Management…
(Banner Medical: Carol Stream, IL) -- Banner Medical executives Vince Adams, vice president of Sales, Marketing and Strategic Planning; and Bob Khin, quality assurance director; along with Peter Johns, supplier quality manager for Pioneer Surgical, will participate on a faculty panel at the…
(Gartner: Stamford, CT) -- Global research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. has revealed its annual ranking of the top supply-chain organizations headquartered in Asia-Pacific.
The goal of the annual Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 research initiative is to raise awareness of the supply-chain discipline…
(Geomagic: Morrisville, NC) -- Geomagic, a global company providing 3D technology for digital reality, has released two new versions of software from its Sensable Group’s 3D modeling product lines: Freeform v. 12 SP2 and Claytools v. 4. These new releases are the first since Geomagic’s April 2012…
(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- ASTM International, known worldwide for developing test methods and its 13,000+ technical standards and thousands of related publications, is launching two new journals: Advances in Civil Engineering Materials (ACEM) and Materials Performance and Characterization (…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- As simple to use as a digital camera, the NeoScope II is a high-resolution scanning electron microscope (SEM) that produces images with a large depth of field at magnifications ranging from 10X–60,000X. It offers high and low vacuum operation, three selectable…
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- With his engaging and inspiring new book, The 7 Lessons: Management Tools for Success (Paton Professional, 2012), Craig Cochran rewrites the entire management improvement genre. The 7 Lessons reads like a novel, but its advice, observations, and analysis are built…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- With the introduction of the MarSurf XR 1 surface measuring system, Mahr, a manufacturer and marketer of dimensional measuring equipment, has bridged the gap between portable surface measuring devices and larger, full-featured, PC-based surface measurement and…
(Carl Zeiss IMT: Minneapolis) -- The new VAST XTR gold probe from Carl Zeiss enables flexible and highly accurate measurements in industrial measuring, thus increasing productivity and flexibility for operators. Thanks to the integrated rotary axis, the VAST XTR gold turns the stylus system in the…
(TÜV Rheinland: Atlanta, GA) -- TÜV Rheinland Rail Sciences (TÜV-RSI), a subsidiary of TUV Rheinland North America, has expanded its range of chemical analysis services with the installation of a glow discharge spectrometer in its La Vista, Nebraska, laboratory. To demonstrate the benefits of the…
(Compliance2go: Houston) -- Compliance2go is hosting the webinar, FDA’s Part 11—Enforcement Trends and Affordable Steps to Take Today, which is scheduled for Tues., Aug. 14, 2012, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT.
Get first-hand knowledge on: • How the FDA is enforcing 21 CFR 11 today • How to put in…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- This year, the American Society for Quality’s (ASQ) 21st Annual Service Quality Conference is in Baltimore, and you won’t want to miss it. Register by Aug. 31, 2012, to receive the early-bird discounted rate.
The keynote speakers for this conference are: • Joseph A. De Feo,…
(UB: Buffalo, NY) -- Firms not only create new products through systematic processes, but also produce new knowledge that should be captured and reused to enable greater opportunity for future innovation. Through a new, exclusive certification course at the University at Buffalo (UB), developed and…
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- When was the last time you were in a meeting and every participant was in the room? How many people do you know who work from remote sites? How many emails did you receive and send at work today? Blogging, commenting, tagging, emailing, texting, video chatting are…
(Predictive Solutions: Pittsburgh) -- Predictive Solutions’ version 1.1 of its SafetyNet app, used to upload safety data to its workplace safety software, is now available for download from the App Store. This is the first update to the workplace safety software app released last year. Existing…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- A New York Times editorial, “A Formula for Cutting Health Costs,” highlights the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient, Southcentral Foundation, and how it has achieved “startling efficiencies: emergency room use has been reduced by 50 percent, hospital…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- What can you learn for your organization from the evaluation of a fictional health care organization conducted by an actual team of Baldrige examiners this year? See a sample applicant’s responses to the 2011–2012 Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence (PDF) and…
(ANSI: New York) -- On June 15, 2012, the European Commission released a document detailing frequently asked questions (FAQs) concerning the European Union’s Directive 2001/65/EU—“Restrictions on hazardous substances” (RoHS 2). Because RoHS 2 is expected to have a significant effect on trade and…
(Thomson Reuters: New York) -- Thomson Reuters has published the latest version of ONESOURCE Transfer Pricing, the first comprehensive software and content suite to address the entire transfer pricing workflow within a corporation.
ONESOURCE Transfer Pricing helps global organizations automate and…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Why is it that some improvement efforts succeed while others fail despite robust change management programs and the often do-or-die pressure to improve? Quite simply, there are three elements that separate those that succeed from those that fail. They are the…
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has just completed work to provide identical structure, text, and common terms and definitions for management system standards of the future. This will ensure consistency among future and revised management system standards…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, has announced the first accreditations of health information technology (HIT) certification bodies under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of…
(Renishaw: New Mills, UK) -- the RESOLUTE UHV is the latest ultra-high vacuum (UHV) compatible read head from Renishaw, offering true-absolute position feedback, submicron accuracy, and resolutions to 1 nm for both linear and rotary applications. The new range of RESOLUTE UHV encoders are…
