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It seemed like a good idea at the time to Jon Shupenus, U.S. Army Forces Command’s process improvement specialist and lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Shupenus was attending a Department of Defense performance management seminar in 2010 when Kirk Nicholas, director of the Army’s continuous process…
Process Excellence Network PEX
(Pex Network: Orlando FL) -- PEX Network, a division of IQPC, announced the fusion of its two largest U.S. summits—the 13th Annual Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit, and the Business Process Management Summit. The two summits, which ran simultaneously last January under separate…
Microscan
(Microscan: Renton, WA) -- Microscan, a global leader in barcode, machine vision, and lighting solutions, has introduced the AutoVISION family of machine vision products. The product line includes the HAWK and Vision MINI smart cameras, as well as the new AutoVISION machine vision software…
Analog Devices
(Analog Devices) -- Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) released for general availability the ADIS16407 iSensorIMU, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that integrates a triaxial gyroscope, triaxial accelerometer, triaxial magnetometer, and a pressure sensor into a single package. Each sensor combines ADI’…
DEKRA
(DEKRA Certification Inc.: Chalfont, PA) -- DEKRA Certification Inc., a leading certification body and provider of professional quality management auditing and certification services, has launched its ISO 50001 certification service.
ISO 50001—from the International Organization for…
(Micronas: Freiburg, Germany) -- Micronas, a leading supplier of sensor and IC system solutions for automotive and industrial electronics, presents a new generation of Hall sensors for linear position measurement with their HAL 38xy family.
The HAL 38xy family is based on the 3-D Hall…
Bruce Hamilton
The following is a true story that occurred during a nine-month period.Paul had been with a machine shop for 32 years. At the time he held the position of a shift supervisor, and keeping the work schedules was his job. His manager, Bob, related this to me: “Paul is a hard worker who has held…
Georgia Institute of Technology
When working with others in the office, most know it is better to approach a colleague who is relaxed and drinking a cup of coffee versus a frazzled co-worker buried under a pile of paperwork.
Unfortunately, e-mail doesn’t offer users the same social cues—until now.
Eric Gilbert, an assistant…
Jack Thornton
Just What Is Immersive Engineering, Anyway?
Immersive engineering is a digital technology, engineering practice, and methodology, all in one, for solving multifaceted engineering problems in the design, assembly, and maintenance of large, complicated structures (e.g., automobiles…
http://www.micronas.com/en/pressroom/press_releases/articles/pr1105_en/index.html?back=%2Fen%2Fhome%2Findex.html(Micronas:Freiburg, Germany) -- Micronas (SIX Swiss Exchange: MASN), a leading supplier of cutting-edge sensor and IC system solutions for automotive and industrial electronics,…
The Conference Board
(The Conference Board: New York) -- The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) declined for the second month in a row in May 2011 to 99.7, down from April’s revised figure of 100.1. The May figure is up 5.3 percent from a year ago.
“Declines as we’ve seen in the Employment Trends Index…
Matthew R. Philip and Lori Cross
A whole-team approach is an agile practice in which an entire team works as a unit of generalists to share the responsibility for producing high-quality deliverables. It’s a kind of “glue” that holds a lot of other agile practices together. Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, co-authors of Agile…
AMETEK
(AMETEK: Largo, FL) -- AMETEK Test & Calibration Instruments works continually to improve the performance, accuracy, convenience, and functionality of its line of advanced dry-block calibrators. Its latest addition—the JOFRA Professional Temperature Calibrators (PTC) Series—offers a range…
James Robertson
Delivering high-value decision support information is the reason why decision makers implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. In fact, precision configuration to support the delivery of decision support information is critical to a successful ERP. There are numerous reasons why.…
Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI
The free, on-demand presentation, “An Introduction to the Model for Improvement,” from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a simple yet powerful approach to achieving rapid and significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes. It has been used successfully by hundreds of…
InfinityQS
(Infinity QS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, has announced the commercial availability of its ProFicient on Demand solution. The web-based version of the company’s flagship product, ProFicient, will extend the same…
LRQA Business Assurance
(LRQA: Houston) -- The Foundation for Food Safety Certification, the owners of the Food Safety System Certification 22000 scheme (FSSC 22000) and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles, held its first-ever webinar on May 24, 2011. Fons Schmid, chairman of the board, and…
Tracker Handbook by Art Kietlinski
Back in the early 1990s, before the laser tracker—the portable measurement system that relies on a laser beam to measure and inspect—had the reputation it has now, it was viewed simply as an inspection tool. As part of a quality control group, I would check dimensional and geometrical accuracies…
Edward D. Hess
For many, achieving the American Dream means taking control of their destiny, quitting their 9 to 5, and opening the doors to their very own business. These brave entrepreneurial souls have shaped American enterprise, and today, they're playing the critical role of helping to drive…
Stewart Anderson
Not all customers are equally profitable. Different customers have different needs, and hence different costs to serve. The overall profitability of a business is a function of the profitability of individual customers and customer groups.
Many businesses measure customer satisfaction but they…
SAE International
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- SAE International recently released its “Engineer Employment Study for Mobility Industries, 2011–2016,” which discusses the employment and career outlook for mobility professionals in the automotive, aerospace, and commercial vehicle industries.
In order to complete…
International Accreditation Forum IAF
(IAF: Cherrybrook, NSW, Australia) -- June 9, 2011, will mark World Accreditation Day, a global initiative jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation-…
Southern New Hampshire University
(Southern New Hampshire University: Manchester, NH) -- Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is now offering an MBA with a concentration in Six Sigma quality. Six Sigma is one of the most widely used quality management approaches in the business world, utilized to gain production and…
Win a TomTom GPS (a rather befitting prize for this devilish challenge). When you’re lost in an unfamiliar area, do you ask for directions from the local folk? If so, how well do you listen? How well do you follow directions?
Beginning with the Quality Digest article title, “Top Ten Reasons to…
British Assessment Bureau BAB
According to data from The British Assessment Bureau’s (BAB) independent 2011 Client Satisfaction Survey, 44 percent of respondents said that they had won business as a result of becoming certified to ISO 9001, the quality management system standard from the International…
