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(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has joined forces with three of the biggest names in standards to develop an unprecedented resource for medical device standards and related information.
Medical professionals can now access more than 1,300 medical device…
(NCQA: Washington) -- U.S. News Media Group and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) have released the fifth-annual edition of “America’s Best Health Insurance Plans” on USNews.com. Published at the start of open-enrollment season, when people across the United States prepare to…
(Solar Metrology: Halbrook, NY) -- Solar Metrology expands its SMX XRF tool portfolio for film composition and thickness measurement of CIGS photovoltaic depositions with the addition of the System SMX-Remote static head ILH.
Solar Metrology’s System SMX-ILH is an atmospheric in-line X-ray…
(Struers Inc.: Westlake, OH) -- Struers Inc. introduces its new state-of-the-art micro/macro hardness testing product line, the DuraScan. With its extensive features and benefits, the DuraScan is a natural complement to Struers existing hardness testers.
The DuraScan, designed in five basic…
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- After a surge through the second quarter, aggregate customer satisfaction as measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) stalls. The ACSI loses 0.1 percent for the third quarter, which brings the Index to a score of 76.0 on a 100-point scale. Still, the…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology announces the release of PC-DMIS 2009 Minor Release 1 (MR1), an incremental update to PC-DMIS 2009, which was newly released in July 2009.
“The model of doing frequent minor releases represents the continuation of our new agile…
(Capture 3D: Costa Mesa, CA) -- Capture 3D, together with Trilion Quality Systems, is excited to announce the “Go Lean and Be Smart with 3D Metrology Techniques Workshop” U.S. tour.
Presentations from various industries focus on how optical 3-D technology is being used to improve quality…
(BMGI: Denver) -- BMGI in conjunction with BMG University announce “Lean for Healthcare,” a 4.5-day workshop providing a comprehensive introduction to lean in health care environments. The workshop is offered during February and June 2010 in Denver.
Classroom training combines lectures and…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal Inc. has introduced a new version of its popular MMQ 200 Formtester Cylindricity Machine with an automated T7W probing system. The T7W is a ±360° motorized bidirectional probe intended to reduce operator involvement and improve measurement capability…
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- A custom gun grip manufacturer has substantially improved the quality of its products by using the MobileScan HD portable 3-D laser scanning system from NVision to reverse engineer the original grips. In the past, the manufacturer used a coordinate measuring machine (CMM…
(Mastercam: Tolland, CT) -- Mastercam X4 Lathe has been released with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs. From roughing and finishing to easy grooving and threading, Mastercam Lathe has been designed to reduce programmer interaction and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- If you’re watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new research1 makes it possible to scrutinize…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Each year the Baldrige Program recruits experts from business, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofit organizations, and other groups to serve on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Examiners evaluate applications…
(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Camstar will show a product demonstration of its nonconformance management solution in a live one-hour web cast on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. EST.
The session will illustrate specific examples of how the solution can help manufacturers:
• Streamline…
(Dickson: Addison, IL) -- Quality managers and others responsible for maintaining the integrity of temperature and/or humidity chart recorders or data loggers, can now download a comprehensive guide to all aspects of instrument calibration at www.dicksondata.com/calibration/calibration_order.php…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Critical Success Factors Simplified: Implementing the Powerful Drivers of Dramatic Business Improvement, by Marvin T. Howell (Productivity Press, 2009) simplifies the identification, measurement, and use of critical success factors (CSFs) to successfully implement…
(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- The latest HEIDENHAIN ND 1400 Quadra-Chek digital readout (DRO) is designed specifically for manual coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), and can capture two- and three-dimensional features with its measuring computer functionality. This intuitive DRO with its color…
(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- Human error causes 80 percent of drug manufacturing failures, studies indicate. Discover secrets of reducing human error, improving your products, and fending off the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by attending the FDAnews webinar, “Reducing Human Error on…
Story update 11/23/2009: Information added on regions covered by this partnership.
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Morris Group Inc. of Windsor,…
(University Alliance: Tampa, FL) -- This year’s University Alliance catalog, titled Online Executive Education, features exclusive savings on more than 50 in-demand online certificate programs from nationally recognized universities including Villanova, Notre Dame, Tulane, and the University of…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Hartwig Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, the largest distributor of computer numeric control (CNC) machine tools and metal cutting…
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation announces the availability of its FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition (ME) software. This machine-level data historian is designed to help manufacturers mitigate the risk of machine downtime and reach continuous process improvement…
Maximum precision is required for the manufacture of medical parts—dental implants, spinal implants, and surgical instruments. Diener AG Precision Machining uses solutions from Carl Zeiss to fulfill and verify these extreme demands on quality.
Customers rely on the on-time delivery of…
(MFG.com: Atlanta) -- MFG.com, the largest global sourcing marketplace for manufacturers, today announced significant advancements to its online platform that are designed to create additional competitive advantages for manufacturers and suppliers of custom parts, standard components, assemblies,…
(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- Over the past three years, Ireland’s public health care system, the Health Service Executive (HSE), has been making health care quality and patient safety issues a critical part of its mission. In 2007, the HSE issued a Quality and Risk Management Standard, setting the…