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(Pex Network: Orlando FL) -- PEX Network, a division of IQPC, announced the fusion of its two largest U.S. summits—the 13th Annual Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit, and the Business Process Management Summit. The two summits, which ran simultaneously last January under separate…
(Microscan: Renton, WA) -- Microscan, a global leader in barcode, machine vision, and lighting solutions, has introduced the AutoVISION family of machine vision products. The product line includes the HAWK and Vision MINI smart cameras, as well as the new AutoVISION machine vision software…
(Analog Devices) -- Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) released for general availability the ADIS16407 iSensorIMU, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that integrates a triaxial gyroscope, triaxial accelerometer, triaxial magnetometer, and a pressure sensor into a single package. Each sensor combines ADI’…
(DEKRA Certification Inc.: Chalfont, PA) -- DEKRA Certification Inc., a leading certification body and provider of professional quality management auditing and certification services, has launched its ISO 50001 certification service.
ISO 50001—from the International Organization for…
(Micronas: Freiburg, Germany) -- Micronas, a leading supplier of sensor and IC system solutions for automotive and industrial electronics, presents a new generation of Hall sensors for linear position measurement with their HAL 38xy family.
The HAL 38xy family is based on the 3-D Hall…
http://www.micronas.com/en/pressroom/press_releases/articles/pr1105_en/index.html?back=%2Fen%2Fhome%2Findex.html(Micronas:Freiburg, Germany) -- Micronas (SIX Swiss Exchange: MASN), a leading supplier of cutting-edge sensor and IC system solutions for automotive and industrial electronics,…
(The Conference Board: New York) -- The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) declined for the second month in a row in May 2011 to 99.7, down from April’s revised figure of 100.1. The May figure is up 5.3 percent from a year ago.
“Declines as we’ve seen in the Employment Trends Index…
(AMETEK: Largo, FL) -- AMETEK Test & Calibration Instruments works continually to improve the performance, accuracy, convenience, and functionality of its line of advanced dry-block calibrators. Its latest addition—the JOFRA Professional Temperature Calibrators (PTC) Series—offers a range…
The free, on-demand presentation, “An Introduction to the Model for Improvement,” from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a simple yet powerful approach to achieving rapid and significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes. It has been used successfully by hundreds of…
(Infinity QS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, has announced the commercial availability of its ProFicient on Demand solution. The web-based version of the company’s flagship product, ProFicient, will extend the same…
(LRQA: Houston) -- The Foundation for Food Safety Certification, the owners of the Food Safety System Certification 22000 scheme (FSSC 22000) and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles, held its first-ever webinar on May 24, 2011. Fons Schmid, chairman of the board, and…
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- SAE International recently released its “Engineer Employment Study for Mobility Industries, 2011–2016,” which discusses the employment and career outlook for mobility professionals in the automotive, aerospace, and commercial vehicle industries.
In order to complete…
(IAF: Cherrybrook, NSW, Australia) -- June 9, 2011, will mark World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-…
(Southern New Hampshire University: Manchester, NH) -- Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is now offering an MBA with a concentration in Six Sigma quality. Six Sigma is one of the most widely used quality management approaches in the business world, utilized to gain production and…
Win a TomTom GPS (a rather befitting prize for this devilish challenge). When you’re lost in an unfamiliar area, do you ask for directions from the local folk? If so, how well do you listen? How well do you follow directions?
Beginning with the Quality Digest article title, “Top Ten Reasons to…
(Ford Motor Co.: Cologne, Germany) -- Ford of Europe and Ford North America are leading a project to install robotic plant laser inspection technology in 17 assembly plants globally, a planned investment of approximately $100 million to improve fit and finish and reduce wind noise, a key…
(Infinity: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, has announced that Douglas Montgomery will be the keynote speaker at its fifth annual user conference, Infusion 2011. The event is scheduled for Oct. 16–19,…
(AQA International: Columbia, SC) -- NSF International Strategic Registrations Ltd. (NSF-ISR), a leader in management systems registrations, has acquired AQA International LLC and AQA’s current international operations. As a result, NSF-ISR and AQA-certified companies will benefit from a wider…
(AHRQ: Rockville, MD) -- States are seeing improvements in health care quality, but disparities for their minority and low-income residents persist, according to 2010 State Snapshots, a web-based resource recently released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
New Hampshire,…
(Minitab: State College, PA) -- Minitab Inc., the leading provider of software for quality improvement, is offering a free online training session on using fishbone diagrams to facilitate structured brainstorming for lean Six Sigma projects. The hour-long training session will be held on July…
(Kistler: Farmington Hills, MI) -- Kistler, a worldwide supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has introduced CoMo Injection Firmware software version 2.2.3, designed for greater functionality and…
(Micro-Epsilon: Ortenburg, Germany) -- The new colorSENSOR product group from Micro-Epsilon offers exactly the right sensor for a large number of applications. Color sensors that operate via optical fibers are designated as colorSENSOR LT. In these models, the sensor is connected to…
(European Commission: Brussels, Belgium) -- Standards are a decisive tool in international competition. Consumers should not be obliged to change several chargers for their electronic devices. And a mass diffusion of electric cars will not happen without common standards for their recharge.…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of the global publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. announced a strategic alliance with CECity Inc. to provide physicians and other health care professionals with new, customized quality…
(ISO 9000 Conference: Pittsburgh) -- The committee for the world’s leading conference on quality management systems (QMS) is looking for proposals for the 20th annual International ISO 9000 Conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 28–March 1, 2012, with…
