Happy Birthday, Six Sigma
Six Sigma was officially launched January 1, 1987, at Motorola, and it took more than nine months to make Six Sigma real.
That’s a Wrap!
Those of us in the acting profession hear those words regularly at the end of a particularly grueling day from a director attempting to extract perfection from a group of actors.
ISO Launches New Award
Trying to raise awareness of and promote standardization, the International Organization for Standardization recently introduced the ISO AwaAccelper Presents ISO Standards Guide
Accelper Consulting recently published ISO 9000:2000: An Implementation Guide (BookSurge Publishing, 2006) to help small to la
EFQM’s Innovation Workshop
EFQM will offer a workshop on May 10–11 designed to allow business, process and quality managers to meet like-minded people, to learn ne
New Baldrige Criteria Published
The 2007 Baldrige criteria for performance excellence in education and health care, and in business and nonprofit organizations, wer
Sikorsky Settles Quality Issue
In November 2006, the Pentagon sent a letter to Sikorsky Aircraft criticizing its management for quality control and delays in the productioClose Encounters of an Electromagnetic Kind
In our increasingly wireless world, the air is chock-full of electromagnetic signals carrying data from one place to another.
Abbott Completes Kos Acquisition
Abbott Laboratories has completed its acquisition of Kos Pharmaceuticals Inc., which specializes in treatments for cardiovascular, metabolic and
Poll: Documentation Practices Are Inefficient
Three out of four life sciences companies polled in a recent survey said that their current documentation practices are inefficient.