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(Kellogg School of Management, Southfield, Michigan) -- The Manufacturing Business Conference is hosted by the Master of Management and Manufacturing program, a joint degree program between the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.The MBC…
(AIAG, Southfield, Michigan) -- The Business Continuity Planning seminar and workshop highlighting AIAG’s new publication, Business Continuity Planning Toolkit for the Automotive Supply Chain, features presentations and case studies to help organizations survive and thrive in the event…
(Valeo, Paris) -- Valeo has earned five awards from Toyota Motor Europe, including the Superior Performance Award in Quality. The awards, presented at the Toyota’s Annual Business Meeting in Brussels, are the following: A Superior Performance Award, in the quality category, given to the…
The city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, used to be typical of a lot of Rust Belt cities: too many boarded-up buildings, insufficient infrastructure, a 37-percent population drop over 50 years, and a flagging downtown area that was in desperate need of revitalization. That all changed in 2000,…
(WCBF, Chicago) -- Edward Hanway, CEO of CIGNA Corp. will receive the top honor as Lean Six Sigma CEO of the Year for his vision and leadership in initiating lean Six Sigma to achieve a financial impact of $110 million per year and potential savings of another $200 million per year for…
(Hyperion, Santa Clara, California) -- Hyperion, a leading global provider of performance management software solutions, recently announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. through a cash tender offer for $52.00 per share, or approximately $3.3 billion.“Requirements for…
(SigmaQuest Inc., Santa Clara, California) -- SigmaQuest Inc., a leading provider of business intelligence software solutions that help global manufacturers build higher quality products, today announced the availability of SigmaSure 6.0 that features a new Repair Insight module. With the…
(American National Standards Institute, Washington, D.C.) -- The American National Standards Institute is inviting leaders of the U.S. standardization community to participate in the third Conference on U.S. Leadership in the International Organization for Standardization and the International…
(ANSI, New York) -- On June 11–12, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos M. Gutierrez will host the inaugural Americas Competitiveness Forum in Atlanta. The forum will provide a venue for government ministers from the Western Hemisphere to come together with leaders from the private sector…
(Tejari, United Arab Emirates) -- Tejari, the Middle East’s premier online business-to-business service, has become the world’s first e-marketplace to be certified to ISO 9001. The company was audited by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance Ltd., to assess Tejari’s adherence to a…
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission recently accredited SysTest Labs and iBeta Software Quality Assurance to certify and test voting systems software and equipment against the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. The VVSG are federal standards developed in 2002 by the Technical Guidelines…
Jonathan Spector will become the 10th president and CEO of The Conference Board, a research and business membership organization, on April 16. “Jon Spector has excellent credentials to lead The Conference Board forward,” says Douglas R. Conant, a trustee of The Conference Board, CEO of…
Executives from leading companies will share tactics and strategies for managing and retaining key talent, knowledge and intellectual capital with Global Benchmarking Council members at the conference on Human Capital Management: Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century Workforce, May 30–…
Mtech’s new Internet-based Quality Inspection Console uses hand-held devices to interface with a hotel’s property management system and automate its quality inspection processes. “Quality inspections, when hotel housekeeping departments inspect the work that room attendants do, have the…
Several Mexican manufacturing organizations were winners in the recently announced Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Business Program. The Shingo Prize, called the “Nobel Prize of manufacturing,” recognizes achievements in lean process improvement programs in North America.…
Frost & Sullivan, a growth consulting company, recently recognized CTS Corp. with its 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Quality Leadership. The award was in recognition of CTS’ products for the aerospace and defense markets, which have attracted increasing numbers of buyers…
Heritage Valley Health System, located in Beaver, Pennsylvania, recently opened its region’s first fully automated clinical laboratory. The hospital’s comprehensive lean and Six Sigma programs, which emphasize automation for patient safety, helped create the state-of-the-art laboratory…
The Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) recently awarded a total of $85,900 to 22 Green Bay-area manufacturing organizations for training and Six Sigma projects, and there is more money available. The Green Bay Press Gazette reports that the money originates with the…
Six Sigma is a powerful tool for driving incremental process improvement, but it’s not the silver bullet many organizations make it out to be. That’s the word from The Hackett Group, which recently released research showing that too many executives try to implement Six Sigma to create…
TAGSYS recently introduced a software suite—e-connectware—to manage global radio frequency identification (RFID) networks. A comprehensive set of administrative and management tools, e-connectware delivers the highest quality of service levels, and ensures data integrity and data…
Wilshire Conferences Inc., creators of educational conferences for information technology professionals, honored BMO Financial Group with the fifth annual Wilshire Award for Metadata Best Practices. BMO stood out because of its implementation, architecture and executive support. Eight…
e-TQM College recently announced its successful implementation of Visionaire’s e-learning suite, which allows the college to conduct live virtual classes by streaming real-time lectures on the Web with high-quality voice, data and video capability.The school’s approach to education uses…
The first e-sourcing capability model level 4 service provider and Satyam’s business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary—Nipuna Services—recently became the first Indian BPO company to win the Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award. Comparable to the European Quality Award, the Deming…
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Inc.’s TS Quality Software Version 10.5 was recently certified for integration with SAP Master Data Management (MDM) Enrichment Adapter.The integration allows customers to incorporate data-quality solutions within current implementations of SAP NetWeaver MDM,…
Hitachi Medical Corp. (HMC) recently received the 2006 Innovation Award in recognition of its development of new products and processes. Almost 60 North American imaging and 140 Japanese hospitals helped define the critical product capabilities that Hitachi Medical and International…