None of us, I suspect, are fond of visiting our physician, making an unexpected trip to the hospital emergency room, or undergoing an operation.

(InfinityQS: Chantilly, Virginia) -- ProFicient 4 includes new enhancements and features to further help you improve quality and drive down costs.

(Quality Solutions: Cleveland, Ohio) -- Not a day goes by that we don’t hear about thousands of layoffs, plant closings, shrinking sales, and evaporated profit margins.

(Quality Digest: May 29, 2009) -- The first Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University Medal was awarded to H.

(IBS: Lexington, Massachusetts) -- IBS, the global leader in enterprise quality and compliance solutions, today announced the latest release of CompliantPro, its web-based quality management software.

(AMETEK: Largo, Florida) -- The JOFRA DTI-050 digital temperature indicator from AMETEK Calibration Instruments offers a measurement accuracy to +0.012˚C (+0.021˚F).

(AIAG: Southfield, Michigan) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) has been granted the rights to distribute the IATF Auditor Guide for ISO/TS 16949 to companies worldwide.

Last month we showed the X chart in figure 1. The four lowest values and the three highest values were seen to be “outliers” when we looked at the histogram.

Many of us in the aerospace community have come to know the value of data in the Online Aerospace Supplier Information System (OASIS), a reliable resource for aerospace supplier certification and registration data housed and maintained by SAE International.

Throughout all levels of the California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE), a single organization shines at the gold level—Feather River Hospital—the only recipient of the gold-level Eureka Award for 2008.