Seven Best Practices for Humidity Measurement
Humidity is a tough measurement. It’s very hard to get a repeatable measurement with low uncertainty. This post discusses seven best practices that will help you make a more accurate, repeatable, and reliable humidity measurement.
A Week in the Life of a Sales Professional
Sales professionals, according to some circles at least, aren’t all that different from us quality professionals. I once believed they were two-faced liars, because they’d sell their mother to get that precious sales commission.
Units of Merry Measurement
The following puns come from the Measurement Nightmares Project for 2011 at the Harbor Lights Middle Schoo
World Metrology Week and You
This has been a fun week for us at Quality Digest, as we’ve had a chance to support World Metrology Week and one of our long-standing partners, the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS). As many of you know, the CMS is the organization behind the annual Coordi
Study: $20 Billion in Health Care Incentives May Be Wasted
(ZS Associates: Evanston, IL) -- While incentives can be an effective motivator in health care, a new study from global consulting firm ZS Associates suggests that more than 75 percent of incentives are so small or poorly communicated that they go unnoticed by providers.
Call for Proposals to Create Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On May 9, 2012, the U.S.
ANSI Seeks Comments on Proposed ISO Standard on Consumer Contact Centers
(ANSI: New York) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Committee on Consumer Policy (COPOLCO) has submitted a proposal to ISO for a new ISO standard on guidelines for consumer contact centers. As the U.S.
<em>Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma</em>
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Lean Six Sigma (LSS), design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and value engineering (VE) have a proven track record of success for solving problems and improving efficiency.