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(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced the call for nominations for its 2010 Leadership and Service Awards. Presented in conjunction with World Standards Week, the awards recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to voluntary…
(Critical Manufacturing: Moreira da Maia, Portugal) -- Critical Manufacturing, a provider of leading edge software solutions for the high-tech manufacturing industries of solar, electronics, and semiconductors; and Op-tection GmbH, a metrology company located in Heinsberg, Germany, with innovative…
(LVMC: Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom) -- The Large Volume Metrology Conference and exhibition, hosted by Airbus, is designed to be informative, topical, and educational to stimulate further debate and to inspire ongoing personal development. This nonprofit and self-financed event…
Quality has many identities. There is quality in the manufacturing of automobiles, quality in food preparation, quality in education, quality in surgical procedures, quality in document preparation, and of course air quality, which is the underlying theme of my ranting this week.
On Saturday,…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A visit to the emergency room with their daughter convinced one couple that a successful business strategy could also help to improve health care practices. Efficiency experts Aneesh and Carolyn Suneja realized that lean principles could be applied to hospital settings. The…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program (VACSP) Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center (the Center) is a federal government organization that supports multicenter clinical trials targeting current health issues for America’s veterans. Located in Albuquerque, New…
(Carl Zeiss AG: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology celebrated the official grand opening of the West Coast Tech Center (WCTC) in Irvine, California, April 6–7. Set up as a production inspection facility with metrology systems running in a process support role, the two-day…
(Shingo Prize: Logan, UT) -- Organizations from the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, and India will receive honors for their achievements at the 22nd Annual Shingo Prize Awards Ceremony on May 20. World-class operational excellence is the hallmark for 13 award recipients of The Shingo Prize…
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- METTLER-TOLEDO, a global supplier of precision instruments and services, has released the latest version of its unique laboratory software, LabX 2010. LabX software is recognized for its unique approach to aiding the performance of laboratory weighing…
William G. Hunter
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The Amercian Society for Quality (ASQ) Statistics Division is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for its William G. Hunter Award for 2010.
William G. Hunter was the first chairman of the Statistics Division of…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) — Hexagon Metrology introduces a new generation of ROMER portable 3-D measuring arms to the market. The ROMER Absolute Arm is the most accurate ROMER CMM ever manufactured. It is also the first measuring arm to have absolute encoders, a development that…
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few years ago a Missouri-based casting company, O’Fallon Casting, realized that its touch probe-based inspection system was stretched to the limit for most of its rapid prototyping work. O’Fallon Casting took a new approach by installing a cross scanner from Nikon Metrology plus PolyWorks…
(Sparta Systems: Holmdel, NJ) -- Sparta Systems Inc., the maker of TrackWise software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, announced the release of its TrackWise Audit Execution Package. The new offering builds upon the existing robust audit capabilities…
Under an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Great Lakes Region, Ghafari Associates LLC, a full-service architecture, engineering and consulting firm, was selected to design the restoration of the Chicago Federal Center (CFC…
(Berrett-Koehler: San Francisco) — In the new book published March 15 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Standing in the Fire: Leading High-Heat Meetings with Calm, Clarity, and Courage, author Larry Dressler shows that the key to effectively leading difficult meetings lies not in acquiring more…
Quality Digest and much of the rest of the quality industry will be converging on Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 28 and 29 for the first-ever Quality Expo South event.
Quality Expo, which is held in the Chicago area during odd-numbered years, began a regional version of the event in…
(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) — A recent revision to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) international standard ASTM E384-10e1—“Standard Test Method for Knoop and Vickers Hardness of Materials,” expands the range of its coverage. The standard is under the jurisdiction of…
(MAPI: Arlington, VA) — Emerging optimism prevails in the manufacturing sector that the “Great Recession” is finally turning to recovery, according to the quarterly “Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Survey on the Business Outlook—March 2010” (ER-697e), a leading indicator for the industrial sector. The…
(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- With the introduction of the TT 449 tool touch probe, HEIDENHAIN brings to market its first infrared tool probe. Designed for use with numerically controlled machine tools, the TT 449 is suitable for applications where unlimited movements are necessary, such as with…
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) — As anyone who’s read the news in the last two years or so knows, it’s a tough economy out there. The number of businesses doing more with less continues to rise, which means that process efficiency and resource maximization aren’t just buzzwords—they’re…
Wilcox Associates Inc., a Hexagon Metrology company, recently announced the release of PC-DMIS Planner software. The toolset improves the flow of information between the design department, which designs parts in the virtual CAD world, and the engineering department, which manages the quality…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) — William Wessels wrote the new book, Practical Reliability Engineering and Analysis for System Design and Life-Cycle Sustainment (CRC Press, 2010), for practicing engineers and introduces the interference theory to applications for design-for-reliability.
In…
(Pacifica Endeavors LLC: San Diego) -- Pacifica Endeavors LLC has launched an online directory to simplify the process of finding an ISO standard, Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, CMMI, or Malcolm Baldrige quality consultant in the United States or Canada. Related software can also be readily…
Facilitation is the art of guiding but not leading, bringing learning but not lecturing, engaging but not directing. Coming from the Latin facilitar, meaning, “to make easy,” the role of the facilitator is not to do for others, but to bring out the ability of a group to accomplish a goal. There are…
(IndustryWeek: Cleveland) — Economic recovery is around the corner. Learn which strategies and tactics can make your company more prepared to compete. The Manufacturing Competitiveness Online Conference can help. This free one-day event will bring you practical operations advice from industry…
