Building a Company on Values
Jerry, the president of a company that manufactured precision machine parts, noticed that the business environment had changed dramatically during the past four years.
Geomagic Freeform Helps Rebuild and Restore Facial Features
(Geomagic: Morrisville, NC) -- Geomagic, a global company providing 3D technology for digital reality, showcased innovative, digitally designed facial prostheses, implants, and surgical guides at the International Congress on Maxillofacial Rehabilitation recently held in in Baltimore, Maryland.
Princeton/NIST Collaboration Puts Wheels on the Quantum Bus
In yet another step toward the realization of a practical quantum computer, scientists working at Princeton and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have shown how a major hurdle in transferring information from one quantum bit, or qubit, to another might be overcome.
What’s Driving EQMS Adoption?
Enterprise quality management software (EQMS) can play a vital role in both analyzing and reducing the cost of qualit
QIF Interoperability Demonstrations at IMTS 2012: Impressive
(DMSC: Arlington, TX) -- At the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2012 in Chicago, Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) Inc., a standards developing body for dimensional metrology, successfully demonstrated the exchange of quality data via the emerging Quality Inform
SFP1 Probe Option for REVO Measurement System
(Renishaw: New Mills UK) -- Renishaw’s new SFP1 probe option for the REVO five-axis measurement system is the first to allow surface finish inspection to be fully integrated within coordinate measurement routines.
Finally—My Phone Will No Longer Ring
Well, it’s finally happened. The late-night unsolicited phone calls, the lawn signs, the brochures that clogged our mailboxes, and the interminable television and radio commercials have come to an end.
Roll and Web Alignment With a Laser Microgage
Many manufacturing facilities use equipment that contain rollers, idlers, press drums, and web-handling systems, and their alignment has a major effect on their efficacy.
Integration: What Questions Should We Ask Equipment Vendors?
Integration is a broad term used in quality circles to describe anything from manually merging data output from two different systems, such as material requirements planning (MRP) and statistical process control (SPC), to commanding programmable logic controllers (PL
Another Strategy for Determining Common Cause
Remember the early days of TQM? When I present to healthcare audiences, all I have to do is mention “lab turnaround time” to get a collective groan and smile.
