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(Methods Machine Tools: Sudbury, MA) -- Methods Machine Tools, supplier of precision machine tools, automation, and machine tool accessories, has introduced the new 300 Series VisionGauge Digital Optical Comparators, developed by Vision X, based in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada.
The 300 Series…
(5SToday.com: Lake Oswego, OR) -- 5SToday.com, which provides products and services relating to 5S, the Japanese process for minimizing errors and mistake-proofing, is offering customers a free 5S guide for the proper implementation of the process.
Frequently used for implementing and maintaining…
(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…
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- AIAG will release the results of a first-of-its-kind Global Quality Survey it is commissioning through J.D. Power and Associates at AIAG’s inaugural Quality Summit in September. The summit, “The Future of Quality: Performance Rules,” will feature keynote addresses by…
Speed up approval for new health care products and minimize a major drug shortage. Sounds good so far, right? Let’s hope lawmakers get this right with a new bill designed to speed delivery and avert shortages of life-saving medicines.
Throughout the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) history,…
(Fischer: Windsor, CT) -- The MMS NICKELSCOPE, from Fischer Technology, a manufacturer of coating thickness measurement and materials testing instrumentation, is a multimeasurement system that uses the Hall Effect test method for nondestructive coating thickness measurement of electroplated nickel…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- In order to succeed in today’s increasingly competitive environment, corporations, companies, governments, and nonprofit organizations must be conversant with modern project management techniques. This is especially true for individuals looking to remain…
(KVH Industries: Middletown, RI) -- KVH Industries, designer and manufacturer of communication and sensor systems for mobile applications, has introduced the Series 1750 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), an advanced six-degrees-of-freedom sensor designed to integrate easily into the most demanding…
(Intergraph: Madison, AL ) -- Intergraph, developer and creator of industry-specific engineering and geospatial software, has released Validation, Transformation and Loading (VTL) 2012, a comprehensive SmartPlant Enterprise solution capable of managing data import from multiple sources. This…
I am looking for some help to answer this question: What is advanced manufacturing? Seeking illumination, I recently attended a presentation offered through the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), a nonprofit corporation with a mission not unlike that of GBMP: “To apply innovative…
People often ask for examples of benefits from implementing ISO 9001-compliant quality management systems (QMS). Such examples are often difficult to provide, at least in terms of immediate results. The reason is that the effects of ISO 9001 and its automotive counterpart ISO/TS 16949 are largely…
For many college graduates, the slowly recovering economy has made that first step into the real world a real doozy. The bottom line is that many grads are lucky to find any job, let alone a job that pays what they hoped they’d be making right out of college. The Associated Press reports that 53.6…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The 25th anniversary year of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award will see 39 organizations vying for the honor of becoming an award recipient. Applicants for the Baldrige Award, the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence through…
Story update 6/18/2012: A couple of confusing references to Taguchi methods were removed.
During new product development, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is often used in the design stage to simulate such things as the effect of air flow on cooling. The problem with CFD is that it can take a…
Back in the early 1990s, there was a saying, loudly heralded by one global registrar: “Certify your company, and the export markets will open their doors to it.” Well, the actual wording was a bit more rude, to get the message across to small companies.
I guess this slogan still holds true,…
Editor’s notes: The HSF Mark was inadvertently truncated on the issue of Quality Digest Daily released on Tuesday, June 12th, 2012. The full and complete logo can be found below. Author Stan Salot will be the guest this week on Quality Digest Live, airing Friday, June 15, at 11 a.m. Pacific.
We…
“Stop!” Our shop’s trade-school intern froze in mid-swing. A 5-lb hammer clutched in his right hand, he was attempting to disassemble a spindle unit from a late model Mazda. More than likely, our newbie would have ruined the spindle in the process. I suggested he would be better served using a…
The first analysis of 2011 corporate giving data, the most recent data available, reveals a majority of corporations worldwide have increased their giving year over year. According to the annual Corporate Giving Standard (CGS) survey, conducted by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (…
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published an international standard addressing business continuity management to help organizations in both public and private sectors become more resilient.
ISO 22301:2012—“Societal security—Business continuity management systems—…
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has released the latest volume in the Product Quality Lifecycle Implementation (PQLI) series, Change Management System as a Key Element of a Pharmaceutical Quality System. The guide, which is part three of the PQLI…
(Creaform: Lévis, Québec) -- Creaform, a leader in portable 3-D measurement solutions and 3-D engineering services, has unveiled its redesigned and optimized website, as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations. The new website has been aligned with Creaform’s revitalized visual identity and will…
(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Social Business by Design: Transformative Social Media Strategies for the Connected Company, by Dion Hinchcliffe and Peter Kim (Jossey-Bass, 2012), is the definitive management book on how to rethink the modern organization in the social media era. Based on…
Quality itself is no longer a differentiator among manufacturers. High quality is expected and achievable. With enough time and money, any manufacturer can produce a high-quality product. The focus of manufacturing quality has shifted to a discussion about the cost of quality and how to manage it.…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- H. James Harrington was honored by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) when it presented him with the Ishikawa Medal on May 20, 2012. He was selected to receive the medal in recognition of his many contributions in promoting the understanding of process improvement and…
(National Instruments: Austin, TX) -- Experience NIWeek, August 6–9, 2012, is the 18th annual global conference and exhibition on graphical system design from National Instruments (NI), developer of software and hardware solutions for engineering. Join more than 3,000 decision makers from…