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The nonprofit Reshoring Initiative enables U.S. companies to close the cost gap with offshore manufacturing by helping each company understand the true cost of offshoring—as well as the total cost of ownership.
When they combine reshoring with cost-saving and customer value-enhancing techniques…
Recently, I was working with a committee of leaders, support staff, and line personnel interested in encouraging and soliciting suggestions from their firefighters in an effort to improve their operations and service. The agency already had an employee suggestion program that worked well, but…
(Jossey-Bass/Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- The Future of Value: How Sustainability Creates Value Through Competitive Differentiation, by Eric Lowitt (Jossey-Bass, 2011) reveals what it takes for companies to grow and outperform the competition in today’s growth-constrained, sustainability-conscious…
(Paul N. Gardner Co.: Pompano Beach, FL) -- The pH/ORP TesTrode is perfect for general purpose, environmental, aquaculture, or other pH and temperature measurements.
With the tester’s ±0.02 pH unit accuracy and calibration ability with 1, 2, or 3 pH buffers that are automatically…
(CSA: Cleveland) -- CSA Standards, a leading standards-based solutions organization, has announced the recipients of the 2011 Awards for Outstanding Achievement. In its fifth year, the awards are presented to individuals, committees, and organizations for exceptional service and achievement in…
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Worcester, MA) -- Studying the complexities of surfaces—their textures, roughness, and behavior—can yield a world of information in a broad range of fields, including anthropology, archaeology, biomedical sciences, food science, forensics, and manufacturing.…
Editor’s note: IVANS is providing a 30-minute webinar on Sept. 22, 2011, at 2 p.m. EDT, demonstrating AuditDocs. There is no cost to attend the webinar. Register here.
(IVANS: Stamford, CT) -- IVANS Inc. a national health information exchange, is offering AuditDocs to save health care providers…
(Steinbichler: Plymouth, MI) -- The new COMET L3D is characterized by its reliable electronics and high quality of industrial optics. Equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, the COMET L3D has a fixed triangulation basis that can be used with pre-adjusted lenses. Thanks to the predefined position of…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the European Union's (EU) Smart Grid Coordination Group (SG-CG) jointly announced their intention to work together on smart grid standards development, emphasizing common goals…
(ACTLean: Lawrenceville, GA) -- ACTLean, the training and coaching arm of Schuh & Co., has introduced the Lean 101 Never Ending Card simulation game to clarify and visualize the effect of lean principles. The game is available for free download on the ACTLean website.
The goal
The Lean 101…
Jürgen Tautz is the founder of the BEEgroup, a research entity at the University of Würzburg in Germany that is studying ways to keep bee populations healthy. He also works with the HoneyBee Online Studies (HOBOS) group, which promotes education along with developing an information database on…
(The RFID Network: Mountain View, CA) -- The RFID Network announces a new TV series focused on how radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is transforming our world. The RFID Network, a 30-minute educational television program, examines the exponentially expanding “Internet-of-Things…
(Perceptron: Plymouth, MI) -- Perceptron Inc. has announced that its customer, ROTHENBERGER USA, a manufacturer and marketer of pipe tool technology headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, launched its new ROSCOPE 500 handheld video-inspection device into the U.S. market.
The ROSCOPE 500 is the…
(Taylor and Francis: Florence, KY) -- Distribution-free resampling methods such as permutation tests, decision trees, and the bootstrap are used in virtually every research area. The book, A Practitioner’s Guide to Resampling for Data Analysis, Data Mining, and Modeling, by Phillip L. Good (…
(MTec: Sao Paulo, Brazil) -- MTec Materials Technology, an innovative industrial solutions company, has created Purisolv, a recyclable degreasing solvent extracted from cashew nuts that is now available to U.S. metal finishing, plastics, ceramics, printing, electronics, and automotive repair…
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has become an indispensable tool that allows manufacturers to see information about assets in real time. Applications built around RFID help report immediate deviations and exceptions to any process. RFID has allowed companies to build authentication and…
T he annual IBM survey of the daily commute in a cross-section of some of the most economically important international cities reveals a startling dichotomy: While the commute has become a lot more bearable during the past year, drivers’ complaints have spiked.
The Commuter Pain Survey reveals…
(Sokkia: Olathe, KS) -- Sokkia Corp. has released the NET-AX series of automated total stations in North and South America. The series includes NET05AX for 0.5 in. angle accuracy and NET1AX for 1 in. angle accuracy.
“The new series offers the highest level of precision and automation…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the nonprofit organization that administers the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, is disappointed in a U.S. Senate subcommittee vote to withdraw funding for the successful program in the proposed 2012 federal budget.
The…
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- With the launch of version 4.7 of TubeInspect, an optical tube-measuring system from AICON, a leading provider of optical camera-based 3-D measurement systems, operators will be able to simulate the bending process considering individual correction values, and to…
(RadSite: Annapolis, MD) -- RadSite, a national leader in promoting operational excellence in imaging, has expanded its quality benchmarking activities for radiology and imaging practices to offer a formal accreditation program. The RadSite Accreditation Program builds upon the existing…
(Toyota: Torrance, CA) -- Addressing the Los Angeles Motor Press Guild at the Toyota U.S.A. Automobile Museum, Steve St. Angelo, the executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing, confirmed that Toyota’s North American production has returned to 100 percent.
The…
Six Sigma, a data-driven method for improving business and quality performance, has been published as a two-part standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Six Sigma was originally developed by Motorola in 1986 to ameliorate manufacturing processes with the goal of 99.…
Quality control for the series production of home appliances at Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH) in Traunreut, Germany, used to be based on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). Last year, the tactile measuring system was replaced by optical 3-D measuring technology from Steinbichler…
What products will be affected by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) quality by design (QbD) stipulation, as outlined in its report, “Pharmaceutical Quality for the 21st Century: A Risk-Based Approach”?
It will apply to new marketing authorization applications, new drug applications, Type…
