In my March 24th column, I discussed how you should handle audits that point out a minor or "Mickey Mouse" nonconformance.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time used an apparatus that relies on the “noise” of jiggling electrons to make highly accurate measurements of the Boltzmann constant, an important value for many scientific ca

The recent earthquake in Japan and evolving nuclear plant disaster have forced firms to triage their supply chains, adopting an emergency-room approach to responding to the crisis.

Understanding a process’ cycle time is extremely important, especially in the context of takt

When it comes to packaged fish or meat, it’s nearly impossible to distinguish between fresh goods and their inedible counterparts.

(NeoMetrix: Lake Mary, FL) -- Air Mobile Ministries (AMM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that does disaster relief all around the world.

(ACPE: Tampa, FL) -- The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) and Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health in Philadelphia are teaming up to offer an important new advanced degree aimed at physicians who want to improve the quality of health care.

(MIT: MA) -- At a time when the Internet puts an untold amount of information at anyone’s fingertips, automated scientific experiments churn out data faster than researchers can keep up with it, and communications networks can include billions of people, even the simplest computational tasks

(ANSI: New York) -- Acc

(ISO: Geneva, Switzerland) -- A free tutorial on the improved second edition of ISO/IEC 17021:2011, the international standard that sets new requirements for auditing management systems and for auditor competence, is now available on