(QuEst Forum: Dallas) -- QuEST Forum unveiled its inaugural report on the state of quality in the telecommunications industry at the 2009 Asia Pacific Best Practices Conference, which was held Oct. 20–22 in Shanghai.

I was flipping through some Japanese books on sayings and speeches given by Taiichi Ohno looking for inspiration for a new article when I found the following passage:

(SGS: Rutherford, NJ) -- SGS announced that it is the first registrar in the world to be accredited to The Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS) and The Responsible Recycling Standard (R2) by ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB).

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Eligibility and application forms for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award are now available on the Baldrige web site.

(MFG.com: Atlanta) -- More than one-third of North American manufacturers responding to MFG.com’s most recent MFGWatch survey say they’ve experienced a significant supply chain disruption in the past three months, and more than 70 percent indicate they plan to maintain or increa

(Spectronics Corp.: Westbury, NY) -- Spectronics Corp. has introduced the

If you are buying two or three complex assemblies per month from a contract manufacturer, it would be reasonable to check every one carefully; there’s a lot that could go wrong.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name.

The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) posted a notice of draft guidance that will require all medical device adverse-event reports to be submitted electronically.