(DeFelsko Corp.: Ogdensburg, NY) --  DeFelsko recently announced the addition of Bluetooth Wireless Technology to the popular PosiTector 6000 Coating Thickness Gauge.

Long before Six Sigma; long before SPC; long before ISO, TQM, TQC, ZD, and Mil-Q-9858A there were quality products. Quality meaning both goodness and defect-free. Look at furniture made around the time of the America Revolution. It was excellent.

(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal will be featuring its new MMQ 200 cylindricity measuring machine at Quality Expo 2009, Sept. 22–24, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, at booth No. 4725.

The New Yorker magazine featured a cartoon showing a discussion between a salesman and his sales manager. The despondent salesman asked, “I know you’re always telling us to sell the sizzle and not the steak, Mr.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Miniature devices for trapping ions (electrically charged atoms) are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research.

You have a carefully crafted clay prototype made by a top design artist.

(AHRQ: Rockville, MD) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) annual release of state-by-state quality data continues to give mixed reviews for the quality of care that states provide.

Mike Micklewright's pun of the month (we can only hope there is just one)

Question: When Potsie and Fonzie tried to trick Richie into handing over his date to Ralph Malph in exchange for a better looking girl, what did they call the deal?

This is further information on the story released on July 1, 2009: http://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/quality-insider-news/iatf-releases-revised-version-isots-16949.html.

As I listened to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford struggle through tears and sobs as he described his sordid, illicit affair with a woman from Argentina, I concluded that he must have been listening to the new Kenny Chesney song “Out Last Night” with these openi