(LRQA: London) -- Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) has renewed its commitment to “business assurance” as the foundation of its brand, a move management believes better illustrates the wider benefits that its global service portfolio brings to the market.

The Toyota Production System (TPS) house diagram is often drawn with a triangular roof, a rectangular foundation, and two rectangular columns between the foundation and roof.

(The Graduate School: Washington, DC) -- The W. Edwards Deming Award is awarded annually to a government organization that demonstrates transformative training excellence.

(Tiger Optics LLC: Warrington, PA) -- The HALO-500-H2O, designed to measure higher levels of moisture in gases, is gaining notice from gas manufacturers and metrology institutes, reports Tiger Optics LLC, the manufacturer that developed the product at the behest of its London-based representativ

(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- AIAG, a not-for-profit, member-supported organization that works with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers to help them operate at peak performance, announced the publication of Recommended Business Practices for Long-Distance Supply Chains<

(GE Measurement & Control Solutions: Huerth, Germany) -- The new DMS Go from GE’s Inspection Technologies is a high-end thickness gauge that provides accurate and comprehensive thickness-inspection data in a range of selectable formats.

(Carl Zeiss: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology has announced King Machine as a new distributor of Zeiss metrology equipment for Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

(University of Illinois: Champaign, IL) -- The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois.

Signs in factories or on the back of long-range trucking rigs sometimes proclaim “X days since our last accident” or “No on-the-job injuries since 1964.” Extending the stretch between such accidents may be motivated by this announcement alone, but there are b

I recently read an article on the Quality Digest website titled, “Deming, Systems Thinking, and the Future,” by Tripp Babbitt, who specializes in systems thinking.