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QMI - SAI Global
(QMI-SAI Global: Cleveland, OH) -- QMI-SAI Global announces a complimentary webinar You Are Closer Than You Think to ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 Registration. This webinar is developed for ISO 9001-registered companies that have a structured quality management system (QMS) already in place and want…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The methods and concepts presented in the bestselling first edition of Practical Lean Accounting revolutionized the approach to the management and control of lean companies. Enhanced with extensive end-of-chapter exercises and a CD-ROM with lean accounting…
CEESI
(CEESI: Nunn, CO) -- The Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc. (CEESI), provider of calibration services, specialty testing, research, and engineering services, has announced the 2011 Flow Measurement Training Series in Loveland, Colorado. Expand your educational opportunities with…
Thomas R. Cutler
Process requirements for catalog and online fulfillment centers are quite distinguishable from brick-and-mortar retailers. Even catalog companies such as Oriental Trading Co., Cornerstone Brands, and Augusta Sportswear face unique challenges, and each of them has turned to voice-picking…
FDA
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law by President Obama in January 2011, has been called “historic” because it puts the focus of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on prevention—working to ensure that unsafe foods are not distributed in the first place.
FDA commissioner…
Newport Corp.
(Newport Corp.: Irvine, CA) -- Newport Corp., a worldwide leader in lasers and photonics solutions that make, manage, and measure light, announces the LAKIT Series, a new family of laser power alignment tuning kits. Ideal for laser tuning and alignment in research setups, the kit includes the new…
TÜV Rheinland of North America
(TÜV Rheinland: Boxborough, MA) -- TÜV Rheinland, one of only three organizations authorized to test products for compliance to ZigBee standards, has developed a proprietary software-based testing system that is faster and more flexible than previous testing environments.
ZigBee is the…
InfinityQS
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International Inc., a leading provider of real-time quality control solutions, has announced the release of ProFicient 4.4, the latest upgrade to its statistical process control (SPC) software. The new version includes enhancements to allow manufacturers…
Steven Ouellette
Let's face it—many industrial researchers, including Six Sigma Black Belts, do a terrible job of planning the research they need to do to perform their jobs efficiently. See that guy over there? Yeah, he is the one I am talking about, so you should read this article so you can help the poor…
Olympus
(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Olympus America Inc., a leader in designing and delivering optics, electronics, and precision engineering in industrial, medical, and consumer markets, has released a new high-resolution digital color camera for microscopy. The DP26 incorporates a 5-…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a leading global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning support technologies, and the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University have set the dates for the upcoming fall and winter live sessions for their joint…
(UNITRON: Commack, NY) -- UNITRON Ltd. has introduced its new EXAMET-4 Series of microscopes. This all-new design of the EXAMET microscope is an industrial metallurgical microscope designed for production lines, material science applications, metal manufacturing, metallurgy, and a variety of…
Michael Lowenstein
There is a strong recognition that customer service is especially important in the branded experience. Service is one of the few times that companies will personally interact with their customers. This interaction helps the company understand customers’ needs while, at the same time, it shapes…
Kaltman Creations
(Kaltman Creations: Suwanee,
GA) -- Kaltman Creation LLC will now be offering a new line of products with the name RF Sensitive Solutions (www.RFSensitiveSolutions.com). It features affordable, easy to use test and measurement equipment for radio frequency (RF) sensitivity and related…
American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI
(ACSI: Ann Arbor) -- A customer satisfaction resurgence for international car makers puts Detroit’s fledgling recovery in jeopardy, according to a report released today by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The report covers customer satisfaction with an array of nameplates…
Kistler
(Kistler: Novi, MI) -- Kistler, a worldwide supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has introduced the Type 8781A50, a PiezoStar (IEPE-type) piezoelectric accelerometer with center-hole mounting. This…
NVision Inc.
Engineers from NVision Inc., using the company's HandHeld scanner, were able to quickly reverse engineer a large impeller for a major hydroelectric facility, sparing the facility what would have been an extended shutdown had they needed to produce a replacement impeller from scratch. In less than…
Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- Now that the harm, cost, and prevalence of medical errors and defects in health care are getting the attention they deserve, improving patient safety and reliability has become a top priority in health care. And with the recent changes in reimbursement, maintaining a…
Michael Lowenstein
The word “advocate” has French and Latin origins. It has multiple applications, including legal, political, social care, and marketplace. It is the marketplace applications where the business, academic marketing, and management consulting communities have focused. Essentially, advocacy can be…
Kistler
(Kistler: Novi, MI) -- Kistler, a worldwide supplier of precision sensors, systems and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has introduced the Type 6190, a high-precision transducer designed to offer combined measurements of both cavity…
Bill Kalmar
It seems that you can't pick up a newspaper today (yes, I still get one) without reading a story about the sorry state of education in the United States. Why has the quality of our educational system slipped? Why can't Johnny read? Here are my thoughts inspired by the proliferation of back-to-…
Paul Naysmith
In the mid 1970s to mid 1980s the Punk movement was an intensely bright burning star that fizzled out just as quickly as it came in. As I understand it, the Punk movement was the antidote to the excessive color and pageantry of the Glam Rock scene. Punk music was stripped back, rockin’ in your…
(APEC: Singapore) -- On September 13-14, 2011, San Francisco will play host to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference on Implementation of Energy Management Standardization. The event will bring together up to 150 participants from the 21 Asia-Pacific member economies to…
Renishaw
(Renishaw: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, is announcing more new products that will be demonstrated at the EMO Hannover exhibition taking place in Germany, September 19–24. These include touch probes and software systems that will aid process…
Bearing Specialists Association BSA
(Bearing Specialists Association: Glen Ellyn, IL) -- The Bearing Specialists Association (BSA) has identified “Axis of Rotation Metrology” as the second educational publication in its series of Bearing Briefs of the Month. Bearing Briefs are just one of a variety of education and training…