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(Dickson: Addison, IL) -- Quality managers and others responsible for maintaining the integrity of temperature and/or humidity chart recorders or data loggers, can now download a comprehensive guide to all aspects of instrument calibration at www.dicksondata.com/calibration/calibration_order.php…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Critical Success Factors Simplified: Implementing the Powerful Drivers of Dramatic Business Improvement, by Marvin T. Howell (Productivity Press, 2009) simplifies the identification, measurement, and use of critical success factors (CSFs) to successfully implement…
(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- The latest HEIDENHAIN ND 1400 Quadra-Chek digital readout (DRO) is designed specifically for manual coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), and can capture two- and three-dimensional features with its measuring computer functionality. This intuitive DRO with its color…
What about parking? It’s a question drivers must consider every time they turn the key in the ignition. Cities have struggled with parking issues since the preautomobile era, however, in those days the question was more likely to be: What about my horse?
Parking automobiles proved to be a…
(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- Human error causes 80 percent of drug manufacturing failures, studies indicate. Discover secrets of reducing human error, improving your products, and fending off the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by attending the FDAnews webinar, “Reducing Human Error on…
GKS Inspection Services has been a leading provider of dimensional inspection, 3-D laser scanning, terrestrial scanning, and CT scanning services for more than 25 years. The company’s metrologists and engineers are experienced in the automotive, defense, electronics, and many other manufacturing…
Story update 11/23/2009: Information added on regions covered by this partnership.
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Morris Group Inc. of Windsor,…
(University Alliance: Tampa, FL) -- This year’s University Alliance catalog, titled Online Executive Education, features exclusive savings on more than 50 in-demand online certificate programs from nationally recognized universities including Villanova, Notre Dame, Tulane, and the University of…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Hartwig Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, the largest distributor of computer numeric control (CNC) machine tools and metal cutting…
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation announces the availability of its FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition (ME) software. This machine-level data historian is designed to help manufacturers mitigate the risk of machine downtime and reach continuous process improvement…
Maximum precision is required for the manufacture of medical parts—dental implants, spinal implants, and surgical instruments. Diener AG Precision Machining uses solutions from Carl Zeiss to fulfill and verify these extreme demands on quality.
Customers rely on the on-time delivery of…
(MFG.com: Atlanta) -- MFG.com, the largest global sourcing marketplace for manufacturers, today announced significant advancements to its online platform that are designed to create additional competitive advantages for manufacturers and suppliers of custom parts, standard components, assemblies,…
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f you’ve been sweating what to get your quality colleagues this holiday season, you might want to pass up that tin of gooey chocolate in favor of a new international self-help standard.
Published on Nov. 1 by the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—the same…
(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- Over the past three years, Ireland’s public health care system, the Health Service Executive (HSE), has been making health care quality and patient safety issues a critical part of its mission. In 2007, the HSE issued a Quality and Risk Management Standard, setting the…
(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- As health reform measures make their way through Congress, with the House of Representatives narrowly passing a heath reform bill earlier this month, the issues of universal coverage, cost, and private vs. public delivery have been at the forefront of the discussion. The…
(Nikon Metrology NV: Leuven, Belgium) -- The corporate name of Metris has been changed to Nikon Metrology NV. Under the Nikon brand, Nikon and Metris will synergize their respective strengths with regard to technology, marketing, and services, thereby delivering innovative metrology products with…
(Performance Review Institute: Warrendale, PA) -- The penalties for failure to comply with ITAR/EAR regulations are severe and understanding the regulations can be costly. PRI, in partnership with Export Solutions, has simplified export control with proposed solutions at breakeven costs.
In…
Several years ago, I penned a column entitled, “Nurse, I’m Ready for My Cappuccino!” The article was an interview with Gerard van Grinsven, the new CEO and president of the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, which was to be located in a Detroit suburb. At the time of my interview, Van Grinsven…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced that its webstore.ansi.org, a web site for the purchase and download of U.S. and other national, regional, or international standards, now offers the complete collection of standards from the British Standards…
Sometimes when studying something that has become too familiar to us, we can gain valuable new insights by looking at it from a radically different perspective. Much has been written, for example, about how important customer service is for business—so much, in fact, that it becomes easy to lose…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced that its webstore.ansi.org, a web site for the purchase and download of U.S. and other national, regional, or international standards, now offers the complete collection of standards from the British Standards…
(APQC: Houston) -- Share your knowledge management experiences at APQC’s 15th Knowledge Management Conference, April 29–30, 2010, at the Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa in Houston, Texas. To be considered, submit your abstract by Nov. 20, using one of the methods below:
• Online form
• E-…
Figure 1: Measuring 3D CT METROTOM 1500 from Carl Zeiss
There are still no generally applicable standards for industrial computed tomography (CT). Manufacturers and users still must agree on de facto standards for the specification and certification of…
(GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies: Groby, England) -- For the first time in the world, computed radiography for weld inspection has been qualified and validated for inspection of steel pipes that are up to 3.5 inches (89 mm) in diameter. Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras has…
(WCBF: Chicago) -- WCBF will be approving a limited number of storyboard/poster presentations for display at the WCBF 9th Annual Lean, Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit, taking place at the New Orleans Marriott, May 11–14, 2010.
Due date: Feb. 26, 2010 for submitting…
