Geomagic Software Helps Schneider-Electric Take a “Quantum Leap”
Although he’s not one for clichés, Rus Emerick, process improvement specialist at Schneider-Electric, endorses this one: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Medical Device Industry Identifies Health Care Reform Among Top Challenges
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A new survey from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) asking medical device manufacturers about industry trends and challenges shows a majority (64.7%) identify health care legislation as having a negative effect on the industry in the year ahead.
Pay-for-Performance Has Positive Impact on Low-Performing Physicians
(Wiley Blackwell: Woodland Hills, CA) -- Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are payment models that reward workers for meeting certain performance measures for quality and efficiency.
CMM Scanning Probe Retrofit Allows Fast Form Analysis
(Renishaw: Torino, Italy) -- GE Oil & Gas, in Florence, Italy, has transformed the performance of a DEA Global coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with a REVO retrofit scanning probe system from Renishaw, producing higher data collection rates to allow form analysis—a function previously not
Company News: Stephen R. Covey Joins Faculty, Collaborates with Shingo Prize
(Jon M. Huntsman School of Business: Logan, UT) -- The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business announced that Stephen R.
Baldrige-Based Software Helps Furniture Company Improve Processes
(Shaw Resources: Issaquah, WA) -- Shaw Resources, developer of Scorebook Navigator (SBN) software for scoring Baldrige-based performance assessments, has announced that Nebraska Furniture Mart successfu
Countdown to Reno
As “Old Man Winter” continues to toss his wrath at many of us, it is quite easy to turn our thoughts toward warmer, sunnier places.
Product News: Leica's New Line of Digital Microscopes
(Leica Microsystems: Heerbrugg, Switzerland) -- Digital technologies have revolutionized everyone’s work and everyday lives.
Marriage of Microfluidics, Optics Could Advance Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
With a silicone rubber “stick on” sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, engineers at Harvard are one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into a microsized package.