The Latest in Lean: Training Within Industry
Donnelly Custom Manufacturing of Alexandria, Minnesota, a short-run injection molding company, knows that proper training is vital to productivity and quality.
Visual Thinking
Since one of the pillars of lean thinking is the visual workplace, why hasn’t problem solving in the workplace been taken to the visual level?
American Management
In the 1990s the theme seemed to be, “Don’t compete against your competitors, buy them and compete with
2008 EFQM Excellence Award Finalists
(EFQM: Brussels) -- EFQM, a nonprofit membership foundation headquartered in Brussels, has announced the 11 finalists of the EFQM Excellence Award 2008.
ASQ Awards 2008 Freund Scholarship
(ASQ: Milwaukee, Wisconsin) -- The American Society for Quality recently awarded its 2008 Richard A. Freund International Scholarship to Amar Thiraviam, in Daytona Beach, Florida.
ANSI 2008 Leadership and Service Awards
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute recently announced the recipients of its 2008 Leadership and Service Awards, who have been recognized for significant contributions to national and international standardization activities, as well as an ongoing commitment to their indust
Quality Compass Details Health Plans' Performance
(NCQA: Washington) -- Data on clinical performance and patient experience for more than 85 million Americans enrolled in more than 400 commercial health plans are now available from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
New IT and Software Standard
(ISO: Geneva) -- Organizations wishing to apply the quality management requirements of ISO 9001 to the acquisition, supply, development, operation, and maintenance of IT systems and related support services now have a valuable tool in ISO/IEC TR 90005, “Systems engineering—Guidelines for the applica
Surgical Errors Cost Nearly $1.5 Billion Annually
(AHRQ: Rockville, Maryland) -- Potentially preventable medical errors that occur during or after surgery may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to new estimates by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Medicare Quality Reporting
(CMS: Baltimore, Maryland) -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced payment of more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the more than 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality information to Medicare under the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting In