When I started at General Motors (GM) in the 1960s, we were the biggest and best company in the United States and most of the world. As a matter of fact, I believe that only a couple of state industries in Russia surpassed the number of people that GM employed.

Before some of you fact checkers write me to explain that locoism is a disease cattle contract by eating loco weed and a malady not inflicted on humans, let me assure you that there are some in our society who dine on this delicacy every day, based on their actions.

TL 9000 is the telecommunication industry’s supplement standard of ISO 9001.

(National Instruments: Austin, TX) -- National Instruments (NI) recently announced four new R Series multifunction reconfigurable input/output (RIO) boa

(Veriteq: Vancouver, BC, Canada) -- Veriteq Instruments recently announced the release of their new viewLinc monitoring and alarming system for regulated controlled environments.

(AIAM: Arlington, VA) -- The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) recently filed comments with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing a waiver request that would allow the ethanol content of gasoline to be increased from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15).

(Marposs Corp.: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs Corp. will introduce the i-Wave, its newest wireless device in the M1 Star bore gauge product line, at Quality Expo 2009 in booth 4739, Sept. 22–24, in Rosemont, Illinois.

(John Wiley & Sons Inc.: Hoboken, NJ) -- The Age of Innovation is here.

(SAE: Detroit) -- In the face of a difficult economy, SAE International will phase out its consulting service, the SAE Automotive Resources Institute (ARi) by the end of 2009.  The phase-out will be conducted in an orderly manner to ensure that all current projects are completed to the satisfact

In a recent post on the Evolving Excellence blog, Bill Waddell tackles one of my pet peeves: activity-based costing, or ABC. Few things do more harm to lean Six Sigma than this method of accounting.