Toyota has launched a national program to donate its Toyota Production System expertise to help schools, hospitals, and nonprofits improve their operations, extend their reach, and increase their impact.

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(Medline Industries: Mundelein, IL) -- Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Dr.

(Edmund Optics: Barrington, NJ) -- Edmund Optics (EO), a provider of optical components, introduces its TECHSPEC Goniometers. These instruments allow for precise angular adjustment of an object about a fixed point located above the center of the mounting surface.

(ZweigWhite: Fayetteville, AR) -- With the economic challenges that architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firms have faced in recent years, effective project management skills remain a crucial element to business success.

(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- Norman Bodek, author of several best-selling books, including How to do Kaizen: A new path to innovation—Empo

(Phenom-World BV: Eindhoven, Netherlands) -- Phenom-World extends the usability of its Phenom G2 desktop scanning electron microscopes (SEM) with its Temperature-Controlled Sample Holder and an improved Fibermetric.

(Reuters: London) -- The volume of research papers published in the field of materials science is currently being driven by Asia, and in particular China, which has overtaken the United States and Japan to become the largest single-country producer in the world, according to a study released by T

(ISO: Geneva) -- ISO international standards offer benefits for just about everyone, and what the standards can achieve is becoming an increasingly useful component of general knowledge.

Standard: “A document, established by consensus and approved by a recognized body, that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of ord