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(U.S. Foodservice: Rosemont, IL) -- U.S. Foodservice, one of the premier food service distributors in the United States, is continuing its commitment to food safety by hosting a technical working group established to standardize the Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), or food safety standards, in…
(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…
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- Few people with knowledge of business—small companies and large international organizations alike—would disagree that an organization is only as good as its top management team: its board of directors. When a business succeeds, it’s largely because its board of…
(NACMA) -- The North American Coordinate Metrology Association (NACMA) invites you to participate in the NACMA 2010 Annual Workshop and Conference, one of the largest annual meetings for dimensional metrologists, to be held Aug. 4–6. The host and location for this event is:
Medtronic Inc.
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(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Corp., a global leader in calibration technology, has introduced Fluke Manual MET/CAL software—an application for calibration professionals who need to collect, store, and report calibration data consistently and efficiently. Manual MET/CAL offers a database-driven…
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e’ve all done it: You need to learn something so you sign up for training. You attend a class. You go back to work. Does anything from the training class stay with you a week later? How about a month or six months later? Usually you feel good after training. You remember some of the content. You…
With the morning mist still on the Hudson River and the sun just kissing the cliff tops of the New Jersey Palisade, Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States, shot and killed former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Political opponents for years, the duelists faced each other…
The billowing cloud of volcanic ash spewing from Iceland may have been a major pain for air travel, but it also had a positive side. It served up a gentle reminder for me to find out what the heck is going on with AS9100 certification.
Faster than I could say Eyjafjallajökull, I was on the…
(Ophir-Spiricon: Logan, UT) -- Ophir-Spiricon, a global provider of precision laser measurement, recently announced the PD10-IR-pJ Photodiode Energy Sensors, designed to measure very low energy down to 30 pJ. Part of the PD10 family of high sensitivity silicon laser sensors, the new devices extend…
(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…
(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing the new Pinpoint Proline Alignment Kit—a visual laser system for checking and measuring straightness, flatness, squareness, parallelism, leveling, and many other tasks. This kit combines the features of a transit, an…
(Starrett Co.: Athol, MA) — The L.S. Starrett Co., a global manufacturer of precision tools and metrology equipment, has introduced the Galileo AV230+, a small, rugged video-based, multisensor measurement system. Built with a granite base and Z column, this system was developed specifically to…
(EtQ: Farmingdale, NY) -- EtQ has announced that it will be exhibiting and speaking at the American Society for Quality’s (ASQ) World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI), to be held May 24–26 in St. Louis.
EtQ’s CEO, Glenn McCarty, will present the topic, “Managing Your Risk Has Its…
(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Overall machine vision sales should increase by 2.6 percent to 4.6 percent in 2010, depending upon the extent of the current economic recovery and the rate of change in industrial production that occurs. This follows a 29.2-percent decline experienced in 2009.
The…
(TÜVRheinland: Newtown, CT) -- TÜVRheinland, a provider of global market access, will present seminars about CE marking and the CB Sheme at the World Trade Center of Central Pennsylvania’s 2010 International Trade Conference. The event, which is organized in partnership with the U.S. Department of…
(Xspect Solutions Inc.: Wixom, MI) -- Wenzel Group GmbH acquired German-based Steintek Optical Measuring Systems in the summer of 2009 and is now making available through Xspect Solutions Inc. the optical high-speed measuring sensors for the North American marketplace.
Marketed now under the…
(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…
Quality Digest Daily recently ran “Safety and Quality Experts Named to Toyota Quality Advisory Panel” as one of their top-read articles.
Good. I had missed it, so I read the article. I noticed was that it wasn’t an article, but a press release describing what Toyota was doing to remediate…
(PLMplus Inc.: Framingham, MA) -- PLMplus Inc. has announced the beta release of PLMplus for medical device manufacturers, an on-demand, subscription-based solution that combines quality management system (QMS) and product life-cycle management (PLM) features into a single, integrated, ready-to-…
In one scene from the movie “Precious,” we see the main character, Clarisse Precious Jones, getting ready for school in the morning. We see this obese African American teen put on a red headband—but looking in the mirror, we see the red headband on a pretty, thin blonde teen. She picks up and puts…
Almost two years ago, the management team of the Indiana Toll Road (ITR Concession Co. LLC) and the Chicago Skyway Bridge (Skyway Concession Co. LLC) decided that implementing a quality management system compliant with ISO 9001 would be a useful tool for driving continual improvement. The shared…
(PPT VISION: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION announces IMPACT 9.1 Software Suite, the latest edition in the company’s sophisticated machine vision software platform. IMPACT 9.1 enhances the previous pattern find tool with its powerful Pinpoint Pattern Find tool, which offers exceptional…
(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,…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Millions of toys have been recalled around the world because of hazardous levels of lead or cadmium, choking hazards, dangerous magnets, and other safety hazards. Two new standards in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 8124 toy safety series aim to reduce the…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) and its printed companion, the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the much-anticipated successors to the…
