New Baldrige Collaborative Assessment Announced
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program announces the opportunity to participate in the pilot of an exciting new assessment service.
New Data Visualization Tool Helps Find the ‘Unknown Unknowns’
A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed a software tool that enables users to perform in-depth analysis of modeling and simulation data, then visualize the results on-screen.
You <em>Cannot</em> Give 110 Percent
My name is Alan Austin, and I recently described myself as a quality prodigal. I don’t mean to say that I’m very good at spending recklessly, but rather that I have returned to quality after straying onto other paths.
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A Framework for Continual Lean Improvement
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The success of a lean manufacturing program depends far more on organizationwide leverage of lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves.
<em>High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service</em>
(AMACOM: New York) -- Time-strapped, screen-addicted, value-savvy, and socially engaged, today’s customers are empowered like never before. Their expectations are tougher than ever, and they expect businesses to respect that sense of empowerment—lashing out at those that don’t.
CLS Series for Packaged Products
(Mettler-Toledo: Aurora, IL) -- Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision, a leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of machine vision inspection systems for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, packaging, personal care, and household chemical industries, has launched its new CLS Series for packaged pr
What the Fukushima Is a Risk Assessment?
On Friday afternoon of March 11, 2011, an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude was detected about 45 miles off the coast of Japan. One of the most powerful ever recorded, it moved the 8,000 square-mile island of Honshu 8 feet to the east.