In one of my recent Quality Digest published articles, “Why Root Cause Analysis Sucks in Ame

(L-A-B and NACLA: Indian Rocks Beach, FL) -- The Laboratory Accreditation Bureau (L-A-B) and the National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA) are sponsoring another affordable public training class, ISO/IEC 17025 Training, to be held Dec. 1–2.

(Instron: Norwood, MA) --  Instron announces its newest line of universal materials testing equipment.

(Performance Review Institute: Warrendale, PA) -- The fourth biennial Global Aerospace Nadcap Supplier Survey was conducted by the Performance Review Institute (PRI) in 2009. The preliminary results were announced at the Nadcap meeting in Pittsburgh, last week.

(IPC: Bannockburn, IL) -- Focused solely on implementation for electronics manufacturing and featuring actual case studies from industry leaders, the IPC Lean Sigma Conference for Electronics Manufacturing will be held Nov. 17–19, in Phoenix, Arizona.

(NCQA: Washington) -- “The State of Health Care Quality 2009,” an annual report, now in its 13th year, provided by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), finds that the quality of U.S.

(USC: Overland Park, KS) -- In the business world, demand is good—unless you’re struggling to meet it.

(Spectronics Corp.: Westbury, NY) — Spectronics Corp.

(Toshiba Teli America Inc.: Irvine, CA) -- Designed for vision applications requiring speed and resistance to blooming, the CSGV90BCS GiantDragon monochrome camera from Toshiba Teli runs 90 frames per second, uncompressed images at VGA resolution over the GigE Vision standard Gigabit Ethernet in

A joint project of NCMS called Volumetric Accuracy for Large Machine Tools (VALMT), partnering Automated Precision, Boeing, Siemens and Mag Cincinnati, has pioneered an innovative process and established new methodology in volumetric error compensation for large mac