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(Airline Quality Rating: Washington, D.C.) -- Hawaiian Airlines has taken the top spot in the 17th annual national Airline Quality Ratin study. This is the first year that Hawaiian Airlines has been included. Jet Blue, which had been ranked first for the past three years, slipped to…
(Minitab Inc.: State College, Pennsylvania) -- Minitab Inc., the leading global provider of software and services for quality improvement and statistics education, recently announced the opening of Minitab Pty Ltd, its new subsidiary in Australia. The full-service office is located in…
(Oriel Inc.: Madison, Wisconsin) -- SigmaFlow, a provider of enterprise performance improvement software, and Oriel Inc., a productivity consulting and training organization, have announced an joint offering that integrates Oriel’s lean training content with SigmaFlow’s Project…
(Instantis: Santa Clara, California) — Instantis, a provider of software for managing top-down performance improvement initiatives like Six Sigma, announced today that it has completed and made available the results of a ground-breaking study on Six Sigma adoption patterns and maturity…
(IQPC: Iselin, New Jersey) -- International Quality & Productivity Centre will present its fourth annual Canadian Six Sigma Summit May 30–June 1 in Toronto. The event will feature 16 real-world presentations of lean and Six Sigma applications, five interactive workshops, roundtable…
(Department of Commerce: Washington, D.C.) -- Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez is seeking nominations for the 2007 National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor awarded by the President to America’s leading inventors and technological innovators.“The face of competition…
(American National Standards Institute: New York) -- James Hill, a recognized leader in the building and fire industries, has been selected by the U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day Planning Committee as the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Ronald H. Brown Standards Leadership…
(American National Standards Institute: New York) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released federal regulations aimed at strengthening the security of chemical facilities nationwide. The final rule, issued April 2, establishes comprehensive risk-based performance…
(National Institute of Standards and Technology: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The Commerce Department’s Advanced Technology Program recently opened a new competition for cost-sharing awards to support high-risk industrial research and development projects. The program offers funding for specific…
(Hexagon AB: Sweden) -- Hexagon subsidiary ROMER Inc. and FARO Technologies Inc. have reached agreement to settle all outstanding disputes between them. Under the terms of the settlement, patent suits pending in California and Florida, and a lawsuit involving claims of false advertising, will be…
(RABQSA: Sydney) -- Worldwide standards in asset and personnel security management systems are about to improve dramatically with the launch this week of an internationally recognized Security Management System (SecMS) Auditor Certification Scheme. The scheme provides international recognition for…
(University of Maryland: College Park, Maryland) -- The University of Maryland, along with U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin, today recognized nine high-performing organizations with the Maryland Performance Excellence Awards.The awards, Maryland’s highest distinction given for…
(Technology Forecasters: Alameda, California) -- It seems everyone is trimming down these days. A soon-to-be-published study conducted by Technology Forecasters Inc. and Electronics Supply & Manufacturing, revealed a wealth of insight on the state of lean in electronics. Among the…
(CyberShift: Parsippany, New Jersey) -- CyberShift, a provider of global workforce management and expense management software and services, was recently selected to the 2007 START-IT 125, an annual list of the most influential manufacturing technology providers as determined by the editors and…
Cummins Inc. will highlight a selection of its best Six Sigma projects at an upcoming expo that will be held May 8 in Columbus, Indiana. The Six Sigma Project Expo is an opportunity for employees—and the public—to get an inside look at how Cummins’ employees are pushing for process and…
Conference organizer WCBF will host its 4th annual Six Sigma in Financial Services Conference in May in New York City. The event will address challenges for leadership and senior executives in the financial services industry, and feature case studies and interactive workshops designed…
(Embry-Riddle: Daytona Beach, Florida) -- The Center for Professional Education at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is offering certified Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt online courses in association with the American Society for Quality, that prepare individuals for ASQ’s…
(Linetec: Wausau, Wisconsin) -- Linetec has won the 2006 Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year Grand Award for overall outstanding achievement in the large company category. Linetec is one of the nation’s largest paint and anodize finishers and one of just four companies in the state, and…
(Sutherland Global Services: Chennai, India) -- The Indian Statistical Institute, in association with the Quality Council of India and the National Institution for Quality & Reliability, recently named Sutherland Global Services the 2007 All India Six Sigma Contest winner for…
(Georgia Oglethorpe) -- Georgia’s highest honor for organizational performance excellence—the Georgia Oglethorpe Award—will be presented on Sept 26–27 at the Loudermilk Center in downtown Atlanta.The event recognizes many Georgia organizations for their journeys and achievements in…
(International Organization for Standardization) -- The world’s leading international standards organizations have adopted a harmonized approach to address the inclusion of patented technology in standards. The International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for…
(The American National Standards Institute; Washington, D.C.) -- From air quality to children’s toys and from alternative sources of energy to security and privacy on the Internet, standards and conformity assessment programs have become the tools that bolster social progress and…
The International Register of Certificated Auditors has announced the launch of its new information technology (IT) service management systems auditor certification program, developed in response to the release of the international standard ISO/IEC 20000, the first worldwide standard…
(Pilgrim Software, Tampa, Florida) -- Pilgrim Software, a provider of enterprise compliance and quality management software solutions, has been named 2007 North American Enterprise Compliance & Quality Management (ECQM) Company of the Year within the life sciences industry by Frost…
(Sparta Systems Inc.; Holmdel, New Jersey) Sparta Systems Inc., the maker of TrackWise, and an enterprise quality and compliance process management software provider, has released the Beta version of the TrackWise eMDR Submission Manager software. The add-on software enables medical…