Food and Drug Administration Announces Modifications to List of Recognized Standards
Tue, 01/08/2008 - 22:00
(ANSI: New York) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued an updated list of consensus standards for use in evaluating medical devices before they are approved by the agency for market entry. The Food and Drug Administration… Standards to Improve Quality of Water Services
Mon, 01/07/2008 - 22:00
(ISO: Geneva) -- A suite of new ISO standards offers practical tools to address the challenge of effectively managing water resources so as to provide access to safe drinking water and sanitation for the world’s population. ISO recently… Improving Your Business Through Benchmarking Best Practices
Mon, 01/07/2008 - 22:00
(NQI: Toronto) -- Canada’s National Quality Institute will present “Improving Your Business Through Benchmarking Best Practices” on April 23–24, 2008 in Toronto.Participants in this workshop you may expect learn how to plan and conduct… ANSI Seeks Comments on Industrial Furnaces
Mon, 01/07/2008 - 22:00
(ANSI: New York) -- The Japanese Industrial Standards Committee recently submitted a proposal to the International Organization for Standardization for a new field of technical activity on industrial furnaces and associated thermal processing… PowerSteering Announces Strongest Sales Quarter Ever
Thu, 01/03/2008 - 22:00
(PowerSteering: Cambridge, Massachussetts).--PowerSteering, the only on-demand, enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) software used to manage information technology, Six Sigma, product development, and other enterprise initiatives,… CSPI to Sue Over “Whole Grain” White Bread
Wed, 01/02/2008 - 22:00
(CSPI: Washington) -- On several Web sites, the Sara Lee Corp. muses about how consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that many “whole grain” breads are actually more like whole wheat bread than white bread, and chides its competitors for not… Behold, a Better Bug Catcher
Wed, 01/02/2008 - 22:00
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Texas, Arlington, is developing an open-source tool that catches programming errors by… 10th Customer-Experience Conference
Wed, 01/02/2008 - 22:00
(Best Practices: Chapel Hill, North Carolina) -- Many companies believe that they deliver superior customer experience, but far fewer customers agree with this assessment. Because the many elements that add up to the customer experience can have… Toolkits to Help Providers and Patients Implement Safer Health Care Practices
Wed, 12/19/2007 - 22:00
(AHRQ: Rockville, Maryland) -- An array of toolkits designed to help doctors, nurses, hospital managers, patients, and others reduce medical errors was recently released by the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and… Bio/Pharmaceutical and Medical Device QA/QC Process Improvement Summit
Wed, 12/19/2007 - 22:00
(The Center for Business Intelligence: Woburn, Massachusetts) – CBI will host the conference with the theme, “Implement a Strategy for Continuous Quality Systems Improvement in Accordance with ICH Q10 Guidelines,” January 24–25, 2008, in…