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(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- While teens rank some STEM-related (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers as offering the best chance of getting a job in the future, 67 percent of youth in grades 6–12 who are interested in pursuing a career in STEM say they are concerned about the obstacles they…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- Juran Institute Inc. has announced the acquisition of Baldrige.com into its family of quality solutions and services. The site is not the same as the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Baldrige Performance Excellence Program site, which can be…
(Boulder Imaging: Louisville, CO) -- Boulder Imaging, a leading imaging solutions company for machine vision applications, is releasing a new version of its Benchmark in- or off-line optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM).
Benchmark provides precise micron-level part measurement and…
Last week, a drive by a 99¢ Store (see photo) reminded me of my first real job in an industrial marketing department. During the 1970s, one function of this department was to set prices, a task simplified in the early going by the market’s acceptance of whatever surcharges we added each year.
In…
BusinessAssurance.com, the world’s first online management systems community, which is sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Inc., brings to you an interview with Mike Toffel, a leading management systems expert and an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business…
(Uson: Houston) -- Quality engineers seeking leak-detection equipment that can be custom-configured to their unique test application requirements can now obtain a competitively priced and first-of-a-kind leak and flow tester from Uson, the Optima vT leak and flow tester.
Uson’s Optima vT includes…
(Plex: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, has added functionality to support complex assembly processes at manufacturing facilities.
The new options in Plex Online allow manufacturers to improve productivity and increase visibility into…
Allow me to come straight to the point. I am providing a limited number of full and partial scholarships for the MindPro Lean Six Sigma Online Training and Certification Program. The scholarships are being provided as a part of my working philanthropy initiative, which has now been extended due to…
(CQI: London) -- The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) and Chartered Management Institute (CMI) are joining forces to investigate the use of quality management systems (QMS) and their return on investment.
As the United Kingdom embarks on another year of economic uncertainty, employers and…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has announced the speaker line-up for the RAPID 2012 Conference and Exposition to be held May 22–25, 2012, in Atlanta. Keynote presentations, conference sessions, technical briefings, workshops, tours, the 3-D printing art gallery…
(RheoSense: San Ramon, CA) -- RheoSense Inc., designer and manufacturer of analytical instruments and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor technology, has developed a viscosity test protocol for its m‑VROC viscometer that achieves viscosity measurement using only 20 µl (microliter) of…
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Calibration, a leader in precision calibration instrumentation and software, has introduced version 8.0 of its MET/CAL Plus calibration management software, the latest edition of the application suite for calibration professionals who need to automate the calibration…
The menu has folded out into four sections. Each page has a picture next to the delicious option; however, I know the server will be taking the menu away from me after I’ve placed my order. I’m pondering how I can confirm that my order is the same as the picture. Perhaps I should ask if they have a…
(Newage Testing Instruments: Feasterville, PA) -- All Brinell optical scanning system (BOSS) units from Newage Testing Instruments now feature a USB connection as standard. This addition allows the field-proven units to be used with any desktop, laptop, or tablet-style PC while maintaining the…
Novelist Rose Tremain is quoted as saying, “Life is not a dress rehearsal.” Accordingly, there are no second rounds. We get one chance—one moment—and there is no looking back at what could have been. Sounds pretty depressing, doesn’t it? But what if you could go back with the knowledge of what went…
Lack of loyalty is a serious problem in organizations everywhere today. No longer do people join a company and devote the rest of their working lives to it. But neither are companies exactly known for offering up 30 or 40 years of employment, along with a gold watch and pension plan.
Times have…
I don’t know how much is spent on the benchmarking industry, but companies and governments seem to spend an awful lot on it. The idea of benchmarking seems plausible enough—compare your organization against competitors, and voilá… you can provide many years’ worth of projects and plans to bridge…
(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Attend this online conference series of five interactive sessions and find out how to drive organizational value by transforming the practice of management and the role of the manager. Presenters include London Business School professor Julian Birkinshaw, University…
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- AICON 3D Systems GmbH, specialists in photogrammetry for industrial 3-D measurements, has opened an office in Plymouth, Michigan to support its expanding operations in North America. Headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, AICON 3D Systems has regional offices in…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology has introduced a significant update and redesign of its website. The redesign gives users a faster and more customized way to find the information that they need. Users will be given the option of looking up information either by specific product…
(Wasp: New York) -- Wasp Barcode Technologies, a leading provider of small business productivity solutions, has released the WWS450 2D barcode scanner with base, and the DT10 mobile computer. Designed specifically for small business owners, both products offer ease of use with fast and accurate…
(Carltex: Nyack, NY) -- Carltex Inc. has introduced a new line of Microscope LCD Digital Tablet/Cameras that are ideal for any microscope that is used in education, industry, medical, and research and development applications.
Available in 2.0 MP (BLC-200) and 5.0 MP (BLC-500) resolutions, these…
The objective of all improvement projects should be to improve the effectiveness, or the efficiency, of the core processes. Everything else should be secondary to this objective. If you improve the efficiency of a support process, or even a portion of the core process, but at the same time lower…
(PAS Technology: Cresskill, NJ) -- PAS Technology, a leader in coordinate measuring machine (CMM) inspection automation, has released the Inspection Lifecycle Management (ILM) suite, empowering manufacturers to establish a complete, automated inspection process from a CAD model to trusted…
(Pyzdek Institute: Tucson, AZ) -- No matter what your knowledge of lean Six Sigma, come join author Thomas Pyzdek and Master Black Belts Peter Bersbach and Larry Dyer in a one-hour lively discussion on “11 Ways to Sink Your Six Sigma Project,” at 11 a.m. EST on Feb. 1, 2012. This event is at no…