After recently returning to the world of process improvement consulting, I began to ponder where U.S. manufacturing stands with regard to worldwide competitiveness after so many decades of highs and lows. Globally, we have U.S.

Twelve U.S. organizations have reached the next step on the road to possibly achieving a silver anniversary Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige Award is the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence.

There are two key aspects of the normal distribution that make it the central probability model in statistics. However, students seldom hear about these important aspects, and as a result they end up making many unnecessary mistakes.

“Quality is not free, but it has a pretty darn good ROI.”

(Olympus) -- Olympus will put its expertise in industrial microscopes, videoscopes, and imaging devices on full display in Booth E-5291 at IMTS 2012 from September 10-15.

T he International Organization for Standardization (ISO) develops and publishes more than 19,200 voluntary international standards that bring benefits for businesses, governments, and society.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced nearly $2 million in Phase I and Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards to 12 U.S. businesses.

I recently had the chance to talk to Brett Warland, global director of process improvement at PolyOne Corp.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Through the use of quality improvement initiatives, the city of Milwaukee is improving services and increasing efficiencies citywide.