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(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- An internationally renowned CEO and author on strategic business growth joins an award-winning supply chain practitioner and an experienced innovation expert as keynote speakers at the ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference, Feb. 29–March 1, 2016, in Phoenix.
Keynote speakers are…
(Juran Global: Southington, CT) -- Juran Global, a leading business excellence and quality management consulting firm, has launched a simple and powerful mobile app, Quality Essentials, for professionals tasked with improving business performance and achieving operational excellence. The app…
(PQ Systems: Dayton, OH) -- PQ Systems, a Dayton-area quality management software developer, announces new ownership of the company as of June 1, 2015.
Beth Savage, PQ Systems operations manager since 2007, has acquired ownership of the company’s shares formerly held by the family of Michael J.…
(Quality Digest -- Chico, CA) Quality Digest, for more than 30 years the leading source for quality news and resources, is now available on mobile devices. Check out our website on your smartphone or tablet for exclusive content, in-depth articles and columns, industry news, webinars, and more.…
(Sigmetrix: McKinney, TX) -- Sigmetrix, global experts in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and mechanical variation, has announced the availability of its CETOL 6 Sigma v. 8.4 software for PTC Creo, Creo Elements/Pro, CATIA V5, and SOLIDWORKS CAD systems. CETOL 6 Sigma v. 8.4…
(The Quality Group: Atlanta) --The Quality Group (TQG), a leader in blended learning solutions and process improvement, has introduced Lean for Education, a lean training series for the education sector. The curriculum includes 12 newly developed e-learning modules, designed to help academic…
(Altshuller Institute: Worcester, MA) -- The Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, one of two global organizations that has developed a viable TRIZ certification process, has elected H James Harrington as the institute's president. Harrington is considered the father of the business process…
Michael J. Cleary, Ph.D., founder and president of PQ Systems Inc. and a professor emeritus at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, died suddenly on September 10, 2014.
Cleary was born June 3, 1939, in Dumont, New Jersey. He was a graduate of Norwich University and was commissioned as a second…
(ISSISSIPPI: Columbus, OH) -- The International Six Sigma Institute and Secret Society for Imperious Professionals of Process Improvement (ISSISSIPPI) has announced a free online big data analytical tool.
As CEOs everywhere have become enamored with all things big data, ISSISSIPPI recognized the…
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has announced that three U.S. organizations will receive the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and visionary leadership. All of this year's winners are…
(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- Are you passionate about quality? Do you want to lead tens of thousands of like-minded quality individuals? Then this job is for you.
The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is looking for a new CEO. According the job posting on ASQ's site:
"The next CEO will lead and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- As most of you have likely heard, the federal government is shutting down due to a lapse in funding. While this will undoubtedly create hardship for many who work for and/or rely on services from the government, I am happy to inform you that the Baldrige Program will…
(CRC Press) -- Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains how to integrate these…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology today officially unveiled HexagonMetrologyU, the first e-learning portal designed to engage and support the metrology industry. The interactive platform debuts over 30 online courses covering metrology fundamentals, basic and intermediate…
(The Pyzdek Institute: Tucson, AZ) -- For 50 years, the go-to method of improving call center performance has been monitoring and coaching. Yet measures of performance like disclosure compliance, call resolution, cross/upsell rates, and handle time are not continuously improving and in fact have…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Letitia Baldrige, sister of Malcolm Baldrige, died Mon., October 29, 2012, at the age of 86. In announcing her passing, her son Malcolm Hollensteiner told the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Inc., that “she loved the board and took such pride…
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Smarter Solutions has come out with a new blended learning, lean Six Sigma training method that overcomes the issues with online and nontraditional training. The method allows self-paced training for individuals, or groups to take the course as a team, but…
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- On Wed., June 20, 2012, MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning technology, will sponsor the Houston Lean Six Sigma Professionals (HLSSP) first roundtable discussion event at the Westin Oaks in Houston, Texas from 5:30–7 p…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Design for Six Sigma in Product and Service Development: Applications and Case Studies (CRC Press, 2012), written by chapter authors, is edited by Elizabeth Cudney, Ph.D., and Sandra L. Furterer, Ph.D.
The book discusses how DFSS is linked to organizational…
(IMEC: Peoria, IL) -- The Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center (IMEC) is launching a lean Six Sigma Green Belt training series beginning on June 8, 2012, in southern Illinois. The series is designed to help small and midsized manufacturers learn how to integrate concepts of lean and Six Sigma to…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- The Juran Healthcare team had two improvement project presentations accepted for the WCBF 11th Annual Lean, Six Sigma, and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit, which took place in New Orleans, May 15–18, 2012. The project presentations were an example of the…
(Gemba Academy: Morro Bay, CA) -- Gemba Academy, a provider of online lean manufacturing and lean enterprise training, announces a no-cost webinar on May 23, 2012, at 1 p.m. CDT, presented by Bob Emiliani, titled “The Leader’s Role in Lean Success.”
Emiliani will present two examples of companies…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A new book from the American Society for Quality (ASQ), The Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt Handbook, was created to reflect the most current thinking among key Six Sigma leaders regarding what should be contained in the ASQ Master Black Belt Body of Knowledge. For quick…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- If you want to make your organization or team more productive, you have to change the way it thinks. Lean Six Sigma is a winning technique improve performance, but the jargon-packed language and theory of lean Six Sigma can be intimidating for both beginners and experienced…
(Zontec: Cincinnati) -- Zontec Inc., the international developer and marketer of statistical process control (SPC) software solutions, has announced an update to Synergy 100 for its customers worldwide.
“The Synergy 100 is designed for the single-user environment,” says Zontec’s president Warren…
