(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Many books and articles have been written on how to identify the “root cause” of a problem. However, the essence of any root cause analysis in our modern quality thinking is to go beyond the actual problem.
You check into a high-end hotel for an exorbitant fee. You are tired, thirsty, and you want a drink of water. Either you find no water or the bottled water costs an additional $5.50.
Fourteen months ago, I changed careers.
(Mettler-Toledo: Greifensee, Switzerland) -- Following its acquisition by Mettler-Toledo, Pharmacontrol Electronic GmbH (PCE), specialists in intelligent vision inspection solutions, is expanding the reach of its track-and-trace technologies in Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Although Quality Digest often has in-depth articles about the nuances of control charts, I’ve found that many beginners are at a loss to figure out how to organize their data, especially in service industries such as health care, hotels, and food.
(ReverseEngineering.com: La Jolla, CA) -- ReverseEngineering.com, developer and marketer of CAD integrated 3-D reverse engineering, scanning, and inspection software, now supports a high-speed, binary database software add-in for point-cloud processing for SolidWorks Standard and SolidWorks Premi
Last month in “Exact Answers to the Wrong Questions” we looked at how we can compute useful limits with as few as six to 10 values.
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent organization that cultivates concepts and knowledge sharing for improving health care worldwide, and the BMJ Group, an organization committed to improving quality and safety in health care, are hosting the 17th
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- On April 18, 2012, MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning technology, will sponsor a one-day continuous improvement conference in Seeheim, Germany for education and networking.
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