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(Productivity Europe: Olney, UK) – Productivity Europe presents Visual Workplace—Visual Thinking, a two-day workplace seminar conducted by Gwendolyn Galsworth, Ph.D., July 6–7, held at Britvic Soft Drinks in Rugby, England. At the seminar learn principles, concepts, models, methods, and tools that…
(IQPC: New York) -- The International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) will hold its 10th Lean Six Sigma for Biotech, Pharma, and Medical Device Excellence event in San Diego, July 26–28, at the Hilton San Diego Resort.
Explore how to leverage lean Six Sigma and operational excellence by…
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Smarter Solutions Inc. presents the webinar, “Design of Experiments in Multi-Industry Processes: Reducing Lead Times and Defective Rates,” on Wednesday, June 16, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CDT.
Design of experiments (DOE) provides a structured approach where a…
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently granted patent rights to MoreSteam.com for inventions developed by MoreSteam’s president, Bill Hathaway. The patent covers advances introduced by MoreSteam several years ago in its popular EngineRoom data analysis…
(Quality Assurance Solutions: Camarillo, CA) -- Quality Assurance Solutions announces the release of Snap Sampling Plans! software for establishing sampling plans for inspection quality control. Every manufacturing company needs to inspect product to ensure it meets requirements. The inspection…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the world. So much so that OEE is quickly becoming a requirement for improving…
(Devista: Amstelveen, The Netherlands) -- Devista released Teamwork Planner 2.0, its Gantt chart planning tool for Windows XP and Vista 7. Teamwork Planner targets project managers of teams of two to 12 people and replaces the spreadsheets that many project managers use to do their planning.…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Filling a gap in current Bayesian theory, Murray Aitkin’s Statistical Inference: An Integrated Bayesian/Likelihood Approach (CRC Press, 2010) presents a unified Bayesian treatment of parameter inference and model comparisons that can be used with simple diffuse…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Telefónica, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, took top honors, winning the Gold Award in the 25th International Team Excellence Award Process at the 2010 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement, held May 24–26, in St. Louis. A dynamic finalist competition included 28…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The new book, Design and Analysis of Experiments with SAS, is a culmination of author John Lawson’s many years of consulting and teaching. It provides practical guidance on the computer analysis of experimental data. The book connects the objectives of research to…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- A long-time advocate of lean practices, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) member and author, Mark Hamel, has been awarded The Shingo Prize Research and Professional Publications Award for the Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Work for…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS has announced that Donald J. Wheeler will be the keynote speaker for Infusion 2010, the fourth annual user conference for InfinityQS quality systems. Infusion 2010 will be held at The Westin Grand in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 24–27.
Wheeler is a fellow…
(Phillips Precision: Boylston, MA ) -- Users of coordinate measuring machines (CMM) are quality control inspectors that may be measured on their contributions to improved inspection processes. A brand-new line of inspection work-holding devices from Phillips Precision, designed with lean…
(Informatica Corp.: Redwood City, CA) -- Informatica Corp., an independent provider of enterprise data integration software, has released the industry’s first book about applying lean principles to the challenges of enterprise data and process integration, entitled Lean Integration: An…
(Minitab: State College, PA) -- Minitab Inc. has released Minitab 16 Statistical Software, the latest version of the leading software used for quality improvement and statistics education.
Minitab 16 offers new functionality and features. The most prominent is the Assistant, a menu-based tool…
(Productivity Press: NY) -- One size does not fit all. While Jack Welch is very intelligent, he doesn’t know other businesses as well as those who work in them every day. Many companies have invested heavily in process improvement, because GE and other large companies did, only to be disappointed…
(Zontec: Cincinnati) -- Zontec Inc., the international developer of statistical process control (SPC) software solutions, announced that its Synergy 3000T v. 3.0 enterprise SPC software has achieved certified integration with SAP Business Suite software. SAP is the world’s largest business…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is now offering professionals the ASQ Master Black Belt Certification, a new addition joining the Society’s 18 certification programs available around the globe.
This newest certification is aimed at individuals who seek a universally…
(Bosch Rexroth: Buchanan, MI) -- Bosch Rexroth is offering advice on how to incorporate lean principles into the design of a new factory, or expansion of an existing factory, in an episode of their lean manufacturing podcast series.
Developed with lean manufacturing expert Jamie Flinchbaugh,…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- ASQ’s Six Sigma Forum is sponsoring a combination expert panel roundtable discussion, featuring guest speaker, long-time Quality Digest contributor Thomas Pyzdek, renown author and founder of Six Sigma Training.org, on May 26, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., at the World Conference on…
(Business901: Fort Wayne, IN) -- Joe Dager, owner of Business901 has just released a 27-page e-book that provides an overview of the value-stream marketing process. The book, Value Stream Marketing, is an overview of applying lean principles to the marketing process. It also serves as an…
(NAG: Oxford, UK) -- Quality engineers performing data-intensive quality design and analysis modeling who are interested in achieving top performance from graphical processing units (GPUs) in diverse applications using Monte Carlo simulations can now obtain an updated version of NAG numeric…
(Apriso: Long Beach, CA) -- Apriso, a provider of manufacturing software solutions for sustained manufacturing operational excellence, recently announced an expanded partnership agreement with Predisys to deliver advanced statistical process control (SPC) and quality data analytics (QDA) as an…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- Infusion 2010 will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Westin Grand, Oct. 24–27. The conference will offer social and networking events that will allow attendees to experience all that this historic location has to offer.
Infusion 2010 will empower participants…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- In an environment of diminishing resources, growing enrollment, and increasing expectations of accountability, Bill Balzer’s Lean Higher Education: Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes (Productivity Press, 2010) provides the understanding…
