How a country copes with a brutal economy depends in no small part on how well its people maintain their confidence in their own personal financial future. Will consumers be confident enough to spend? Will investors be confident enough to buy?

After years of focusing on the pharmaceutical industry and establishing better controls for reviewing the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products prior to approval, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now directing its attention to the medical device in

A management system is the framework of processes and procedures used to ensure that an organization can fulfill all tasks required to achieve its objectives.

The following words of an anonymous poet as he (or she) immortalized the lessons from Deming’s funnel experiment.

“Tamper, tamper is the game, try to make all the same. Squeak and tweak it every day, off we go to the Milky Way.” 

(J.D. Power and Associates: Westlake Village, CA) -- For those who thought things in the automotive world couldn’t get any wilder, a look at recent headlines about Toyota and other auto manufacturers’ woes suggests that turmoil and change may be the industry’s only constants, going forward.

(J.D. Power and Associates: Westlake Village, CA) -- For those who thought things in the automotive world couldn’t get any wilder, a look at recent headlines about Toyota and other auto manufacturers’ woes suggests that turmoil and change may be the industry’s only constants, going forward.

(CSA Standards: Cleveland) -- CSA Standards, a developer of standards, codes, and personnel certification programs, announces the first graduating class of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory quantifiers certified under its new Greenhouse Gas Personnel Certification program.

(OGP: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products Inc. (OGP) offers an innovative, high-accuracy dimensional measurement system—SmartScope Quest 300.

A mechanical engineering firm was contracted to install new cooling equipment in a municipal ice rink’s mechanical room.

“Our corporate mission is to deliver the ‘Best Value in Energy and Related Services,’” according to a large Midwestern electric and gas utility company.