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The current research and development of dozens of major cancer therapies will spur enormous sales potential in the market over the next 15 years, according to a study by Pharmacor and Decision Resources Inc. The report says that five new classes of cancer drugs will jointly account for…
Lonza Group AG recently bought Cambrex Corp.’s bioproducts and biopharma businesses. Cambrex’ bioproducts business manufactures and markets research, therapeutic and analytical testing products based on cell biology for drug discovery and biotherapeutic manufacturing. The biopharma segment…
Medicare beneficiaries previously without drug coverage significantly reduced their out-of-pocket prescription costs and now have better access to medication because of the Part D drug benefit added to Medicare last year. Those were the findings of a study conducted by the Amundsen Group…
Pharma IQ, a division of the International Quality and Productivity Center, will host a conference that will focus on simplified documentation for pharmaceutical professionals. Documentation & Paperless Automation will be held Dec. 11–13 at the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia. It…
The Food and Drug Administration recently named Orion Registrar Inc. a member of its Inspection by Accredited Persons Program (IAP). The designation will let Orion Registrar perform federally mandated product safety and quality system inspections of eligible medical-device manufacturers.…
R. Stephen Flynn recently became president of Optical Gaging Products Inc. Flynn joins a very small group of people who have held the title since OGP was founded more than 60 years ago. The new role is in addition to Flynn’s current position as senior vice president of Quality Vision…
National Quality Assurance USA recently received approval from the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board to start offering accredited AS9110 certifications. Published in 2003, AS9110 includes specific, critical requirements for the maintenance of commercial, private and military aircraft.…
The American Aerospace Quality Group recently invited RABQSA to represent auditor authentication bodies on its Registration Management Committee. The committee oversees international interpretations of and registrations to standards for the aerospace industry. RABQSA recently recommended…
With 20 years of research, development, engineering, quality and design experience, Michael Slocum moves to Air Academy Associates as Chief Innovation Officer.By hiring Slocum, Air Academy increases its ability to deliver an innovative and customized competitive excellence strategy to the…
Based on data gathered by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), the American Society for Quality’s Quarterly Quality Report examines customers’ perceived quality of different products and services on a quarterly basis. The ACSI is a key economic indicator and the United States’…
Companies that use technology to support their Six Sigma systems do better at controlling their defect rates, according to new research.“The Lean Six Sigma Benchmark Report,” a survey performed by the Aberdeen Group, found that data collection and the standardized use of information…
Leaders of the United States Air Force recently reported that the success of existing lean programs will spur the organization to expand lean’s use. The Air Force has implemented extensive lean programs at its Materiel Command air logistics centers, and will implement the methodology at…
STAT-A-MATRIX’s latest white paper, “Achieving Lean Success: A Pathway for Implementation,” presents a road map that unites lean concepts with specific tools and techniques in a straightforward manner. Taken individually, lean approaches and tools can seem simple, but when looked at…
Some companies focus on product innovation for competitive advantage, others on operational innovations. For breakthrough advances, both approaches might be wrong. According to a new report by Diamond Management & Consultants Inc., companies that bet solely on one innovation strategy…
Participants at “One Day to Lean” will learn to identify and eliminate the seven deadly wastes as demonstrated by Taiichi Ohno, who developed the Toyota Production System. The event will be hosted by Tefen USA, an operations management consulting firm. Tefen estimates that 95 percent of…
To let businesses and government agencies “better manage their customer data by matching and consolidating information from across the enterprise into a single, comprehensive system of records,” Pitney Bowes has introduced its Customer Data Quality Platform. “By extending the…
March 26 and 27, Spar Point Research will present “SPAR 2007: Capturing and Documenting Existing-Conditions Data for Design, Construction and Operations” at the Marriott Town Square in Sugar Land, Texas.Project managers, engineering leads, construction managers, survey heads and asset…
Dubai Industrial City, a member of Tatweer in the United Arab Emirates, recently won certification to ISO 9001. “The certification validates Dubai Industrial City’s aim for enhanced customer satisfaction through the effective application of its quality management system, including…
Consumer Reports magazine last week listed the 47 most reliable vehicles on our planet. Twenty-one of them were made by Toyota Motor Corp. Honda Motor Co. makes 11 of the top 47. Other reliable cars are made by Lexus, Pontiac and Subaru, the only automaker all of whose cars are recommended by…
With 64- and 32-bit support, new features and better integration with its PowerCenter data integration platform, Informatica has upgraded its data quality tools suite—Data Quality 3.1 and Data Explorer 5.0. Users can use data quality scorecards tied to rules and metrics in a display…
IBS America provides compliance management solutions and recently announced a strategic partnership with International Quality Consulting, a business and technology consultancy. IQC consultants will provide customers in the pharmaceutical, medical device and life sciences industries…
Effective Oct. 30, Ellen Bovarnick became responsible for customer satisfaction, driving process improvements, establishing corporate quality standards and leading the implementation of Nortel’s Six Sigma initiative. “I’m excited to welcome Ellen to my team,” said Joel Hackney, Nortel’s…
ThermoML, a project using Web-based technologies, has markedly improved the quality of data available to researchers and sped access to a lot of new scientific data.A partnership among the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry…
Leading European research bodies and open source projects recently secured European Union money to assess the quality of open source software. Software Quality Observatory of Open Source Software will build tools to enable open source projects and software companies to benchmark the…
The implementation of Six Sigma in financial services is the topic of a new book written by two leading consultants. Six Sigma for Financial Services: How Leading Companies are Driving Results Using Lean, Six Sigma and Process Management (McGraw-Hill, 2007), by Roland Hayler and Michael…