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(TÜVRheinland, Newtown, CT) -- Starting March 21, all medical device manufacturers must comply with the Directive 2007/47/EC or risk being pulled from the European Community’s marketplace. TÜVRheinland and the Washington State Department of Commerce are offering a half-day seminar about the…
(Standards Council of Canada: Ottawa, Ontario)-- The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is accepting nominations for its 2010 Awards. Nominations are being sought for individuals, committees, and organizations who have demonstrated remarkable leadership and commitment through their invaluable…
(UL: Warrington, UK) -- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), a provider of product safety testing and certification services, recently announced that UL International (UK) Ltd., a notified body to the construction products directive, has signed an agreement with SP Technical Research Institute of…
(TÜV Rheinland PTL LLC: Tempe, AZ) — In an important decision, Solar America Board for Codes and Standards (ABCs) recommended the adoption of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) quality standards for all modules purchased in the U.S. marketplace. The aim of this initiative is to…
(ISO: Geneva) -- For reasons of safety and reliability, the importance of being able to trace products throughout the supply chain has strongly increased in recent years. The new standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 17367:2009 will help manufacturers and…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- On March 10, MoreSteam.com, the a provider of online lean Six Sigma training and support technology, will host an unprecedented live web cast to discuss the need for a rigorous, third-party global certification standard for lean Six Sigma.
The candid, one-hour…
(NSF International: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Concerns regarding consumer safety and compromised automobile crashworthiness continue to center on the use of certain aftermarket structural parts. NSF International recently announced the launch of a new Automotive Parts Certification Program to address…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Thousands of food manufacturers worldwide stand to benefit from a newly published document in the ISO 22000 series designed to prevent and control food safety hazards.
ISO technical specification, ISO/TS 22002-1—“Prerequisite programs on food safety—Part 1: food manufacturing…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced the dates for World Standards Week (WSW) 2010. The week of forums, meetings, and ceremonies will be held Sept. 21–24, at the Crowne Plaza National Airport Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.*
The WSW is an annual…
(ISCC: Reston, VA) -- The Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) announces a joint meeting of ISCC/ASTM/CIE Division 1 at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, on June 14–18. The meeting is titled “Standards: What they are—What should they be? What will they be?” The program will begin with…
(EAGLE Registrations Inc.: Dayton, OH) -- EAGLE Registrations Inc., a third-party certification body that audits businesses to international standards, is now accredited by ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to offer ISO 13485 certification.
“EAGLE is excited to offer accredited ISO…
Serving as a volunteer for the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) during the last four years, Barbara Boroughf has discovered just how much she enjoys the chance to interact with others within the automotive sector. Even so, finding the time has not always been easy.
As global vice…
(NIST: Washington) -- President Barack Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget submitted today to Congress for the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes a funding level of $918.9 million, a 7.3-percent increase over the FY 2010 appropriations for…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Two recently published ISO standards on risk management have just been joined by a third on risk assessment techniques. Together, they provide organizations of all types with a well-stocked toolbox for tackling situations that could affect the achievement of their objectives.…
(BSI: Reston, VA) -- To gain an understanding of how leading organizations around the world are leveraging their use of BSI’s Entropy Technology Solution to drive quality, performance, and sustainability while mitigating organizational risk, join BSI for the next BSI Regional Business Forum.…
(TUV SUD America Inc.: Peabody, MA) -- TÜV SÜD America Inc. announces that the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has approved the company as a verification body under California's Assembly Bill 32: Global Warming Solutions Act. The scope of the accreditation covers refineries and power entities…
(Underwriters Laboratories: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a provider in product safety and conformity testing and certification services, announces that UL International (UK) Ltd. (UL UK) has been appointed as a notified body to the Construction Products Directive (CPD). UL UK…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Farmers can now improve their overall performance and financial results, as well as increase customer confidence and satisfaction with a new standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for implementing a quality management system (QMS) based on ISO 9001 …
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- In 2003, AIAG launched an effort to take JT—a 3-D data format for enabling product visualization between software applications—and facilitate its transition from a proprietary de facto industry standard to an open industry standard. JT is a flexible, lightweight, CAD…
(ANSI: New York) --The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) would like to inform all interested stakeholders that its 2010 training schedules for the Personnel Certification Accreditation Workshop and the Certificate Issuers’ Accreditation Workshop are now available.
Personnel…
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is working on the development of mandatory standards to deal with heavy and toxic metals in children’s products—especially the ones imported from China—and on testing protocols and lab accreditation rules for regulated children’s products.
In…
(ISO: Geneva) -- ISO has published a new, updated brochure providing a basic introduction to “Environmental management—The ISO 14000 family of International Standards.”
The 12-page brochure is the latest edition of a successful publication first released in 1998, two years after the launching…
(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), a world leader in product safety testing and certification services, announces that it has acquired Compliance Certification Services (CCS) of Fremont, California. The acquisition results in a newly formed division at UL and bolsters its…
(BSI: Reston, VA) -- BSI Americas announced today that ANAB has extended BSI’s global accreditation to include the Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS) for standards OHSAS 18001, Z10 for the US, and Z1000 for Canada, making BSI the first certification body (CB) in North…
Stanley A. Marash, founder of STAT-A-MATRIX, a noted leader in the performance improvement field, and long-time columnist for Quality Digest magazine, died Dec. 17 at the age of 71.
Quality was Marash’s hallmark. As chairman and CEO of STAT-A-MATRIX, which he founded in 1968, he was a…