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NIST
Physicists at JILA, a joint venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have created the first “frequency comb” in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength. Laser-…
Stephen F. DeAngelis
Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, is paying increasing attention to climate change, according to Carol Matlack, author of the special report “How Munich Re Assesses Risk,” published in the Dec. 2, 2010 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
“The company [Munich Re] has the world’s most…
Davis Balestracci
Twenty years ago at a great conference, I learned a wonderfully simple model summarizing the personal change process. It complements the “ABC” model—which stands for activating event, beliefs, and consequential behavior, leading to results (R)—that I described in part one.
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Mitutoyo Corp.
(Mitutoyo: Aurora, IL) Mitutoyo America Corp. has released its new, High-Accuracy Digimatic Digital Micrometer, the first micrometer to offer 0.1 μm resolution measurement. Now high-accuracy measurement can be had in a convenient, handheld tool.
The High-Accuracy Digimatic Micrometer uses the…
Jim Frost
Story update 2/2/2012: We inadvertently used the wrong graphic for the Third Estimates. This has been fixed.
This is part three in a series where we assess what information we can obtain from the various estimates of quarterly GDP growth using statistical analysis and a control chart. Read part one…
InfinityQS
(Infinity: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, has announced that six of the 10 2011 IndustryWeek (IW) Best Plants use its ProFicient statistical process control (SPC) platform for quality control and operational…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- An emerging trend in laser scanning and building information modeling (BIM) comes from the adoption of repetitive scanning or ongoing project scanning. Here scans are taken at the very inception of the project, integrated into the model, and are continually taken to update…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- While teens rank some STEM-related (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers as offering the best chance of getting a job in the future, 67 percent of youth in grades 6–12 who are interested in pursuing a career in STEM say they are concerned about the obstacles they…
Juran
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- Juran Institute Inc. has announced the acquisition of Baldrige.com into its family of quality solutions and services. The site is not the same as the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Baldrige Performance Excellence Program site, which can be…
Boulder Imaging Inc.
(Boulder Imaging: Louisville, CO) -- Boulder Imaging, a leading imaging solutions company for machine vision applications, is releasing a new version of its Benchmark in- or off-line optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM).
Benchmark provides precise micron-level part measurement and…
Bruce Hamilton
Last week, a drive by a 99¢ Store (see photo) reminded me of my first real job in an industrial marketing department. During the 1970s, one function of this department was to set prices, a task simplified in the early going by the market’s acceptance of whatever surcharges we added each year.
In…
Jonathan Chowdhury
BusinessAssurance.com, the world’s first online management systems community, which is sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Inc., brings to you an interview with Mike Toffel, a leading management systems expert and an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business…
Uson
(Uson: Houston) -- Quality engineers seeking leak-detection equipment that can be custom-configured to their unique test application requirements can now obtain a competitively priced and first-of-a-kind leak and flow tester from Uson, the Optima vT leak and flow tester.
Uson’s Optima vT includes…
Plex Systems Inc.
(Plex: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, has added functionality to support complex assembly processes at manufacturing facilities.
The new options in Plex Online allow manufacturers to improve productivity and increase visibility into…
Allow me to come straight to the point. I am providing a limited number of full and partial scholarships for the MindPro Lean Six Sigma Online Training and Certification Program. The scholarships are being provided as a part of my working philanthropy initiative, which has now been extended due to…
Chartered Quality Institute
(CQI: London) -- The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) and Chartered Management Institute (CMI) are joining forces to investigate the use of quality management systems (QMS) and their return on investment.
As the United Kingdom embarks on another year of economic uncertainty, employers and…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has announced the speaker line-up for the RAPID 2012 Conference and Exposition to be held May 22–25, 2012, in Atlanta. Keynote presentations, conference sessions, technical briefings, workshops, tours, the 3-D printing art gallery…
RheoSense Inc.
(RheoSense: San Ramon, CA) -- RheoSense Inc., designer and manufacturer of analytical instruments and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor technology, has developed a viscosity test protocol for its m‑VROC viscometer that achieves viscosity measurement using only 20 µl (microliter) of…
Fluke Corp.
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Calibration, a leader in precision calibration instrumentation and software, has introduced version 8.0 of its MET/CAL Plus calibration management software, the latest edition of the application suite for calibration professionals who need to automate the calibration…
Paul Naysmith
The menu has folded out into four sections. Each page has a picture next to the delicious option; however, I know the server will be taking the menu away from me after I’ve placed my order. I’m pondering how I can confirm that my order is the same as the picture. Perhaps I should ask if they have a…
Newage Testing Instruments
(Newage Testing Instruments: Feasterville, PA) -- All Brinell optical scanning system (BOSS) units from Newage Testing Instruments now feature a USB connection as standard. This addition allows the field-proven units to be used with any desktop, laptop, or tablet-style PC while maintaining the…
Bill Kalmar
Novelist Rose Tremain is quoted as saying, “Life is not a dress rehearsal.” Accordingly, there are no second rounds. We get one chance—one moment—and there is no looking back at what could have been. Sounds pretty depressing, doesn’t it? But what if you could go back with the knowledge of what went…
Jeremy Kingsley
Lack of loyalty is a serious problem in organizations everywhere today. No longer do people join a company and devote the rest of their working lives to it. But neither are companies exactly known for offering up 30 or 40 years of employment, along with a gold watch and pension plan.
Times have…
Tripp Babbitt
I don’t know how much is spent on the benchmarking industry, but companies and governments seem to spend an awful lot on it. The idea of benchmarking seems plausible enough—compare your organization against competitors, and voilá… you can provide many years’ worth of projects and plans to bridge…
Jossey-Bass
(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Attend this online conference series of five interactive sessions and find out how to drive organizational value by transforming the practice of management and the role of the manager. Presenters include London Business School professor Julian Birkinshaw, University…
