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Satya S. Chakravorty
The fact that companies are unable to reap the full benefits of innovation has little to do with specific process improvement programs such as lean or Six Sigma. Instead, the problem lies with how a new process improvement initiative interacts with the physical, economic, social, and…
Michelle LaBrosse
Imagine you are sitting in your car, wondering, “What shall I do for dinner? Shall I pick up Chinese food to go, meet my friend Sally, or go home and cook dinner myself while watching American Idol?” All of a sudden you’re sitting there, frozen in time, unable to make a decision about what to…
Bill Kalmar
This is one of those stories that defies logic and common sense. It is a story that stretches the lines of poor customer service and transcends into the annals of, “How to Disenfranchise Customers Over a Piece of Cheese.” Additionally, it is one of those episodes where you look around for a…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, has launched the laboratory information management system (LIMS) SampleManager LIMS 10.0, a solution that delivers significant new time- and cost-savings for scientists and lab managers…
European Space Agency ESA
A key technical challenge of the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) LISA mission has been solved: how to maintain precise pointing of a laser beam across 5 million km of space (figure 1).
The next-decade Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington) -- The Internet as we know it is about to max out. Within the next 12 to 18 months, every one of the 4.3 billion internet protocol (IP) addresses will have been exhausted.
When the Internet was created more than 30 years ago, 4.3 billion unique addresses seemed…
Tripp Babbitt
The real battle for quality doesn’t lie in processes; it lies in thinking. The recent rift in the state of Wisconsin and other places caused in part by increasing government costs leads one to ask: “Who is responsible? Is it management or labor?”
Gov. Scott Walker’s actions in Wisconsin…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam.com LLC: Lewis Center, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, announces its 2011 Master Black Belt (MBB) spring webcast series, which will be offered in April and May 2011. In this series of free, one-…
Larson Electronics MagnaLight
(Larson Electronics LLC: Kemp, TX) -- Magnalight.com has added the EPL-16C-1MLED-100 cart-mounted, explosion-proof LED tank light to its explosion-proof lighting inventory. This tank light is approved for use in enclosed spaces and produces 10,000 lumens of light in a wide flood pattern.…
AIA
(Automated Imaging Association: Ann Arbor, MI) -- New certification programs for robotics and machine vision system integrators will be explained at the Automate 2011 show scheduled for March 21–24, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
The robotics integrator program will be formally announced during…
NVision Inc.
(NVision Inc: Coppell, TX) -- NVision’s handheld laser scanner is being used by Lockheed Martin engineers at its Missiles and Fire Control division to ensure that the fit of accessories to aircraft exteriors and interiors is positioned perfectly the first time.
The NVision handheld scanner is a…
BSI
(BSI: London) -- In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the number of organizations offering services to inventors and other originators and developers of ideas. These include commercial companies, universities that specialize in invention and product design, and inventors’…
Extensible CAD Technologies
(Extensible CAD Technologies: Raleigh, NC) -- In response to Rand Worldwide’s recent announcement that it will no longer sell or support its functional tolerance and annotation (FT&A) and first-article inspection (FAI) tools, Extensible CAD Technologies is offering support for CATIA v. 5…
Lennox Hill Ltd.
(Lennox Hill Ltd.: London) -- Lennox Hill Ltd. has included system specification language (SSL) encryption to its isoTracker document control and quality management software. isoTracker is an online hosted platform, also known as cloud software or software as a service, that provides document…
3D Professional Association 3DPA
(3-D Professional Association: Chandler, AZ) -- The world is going 3-D… and now there’s an association to support the education, promotion, and development of those working within the 3-D world: the 3-D Professional Association (3dPA).
The mission of this nonprofit association is to share…
Aegis Industrial Software Corp.
(Aegis Software: Horsham, PA) -- Aegis Industrial Software Corp. is partnering with MetricStream Inc., a market leader in enterprisewide governance, risk, compliance (GRC), and quality management solutions, to deliver a comprehensive solution for total quality management (TQM) across a…
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) may possess the secret to baking perfect buns every time. Its researchers have developed a production-line system that automatically inspects the quality of sandwich buns exiting the oven and adjusts oven temperatures if it detects unacceptable buns…
ARTEL
(Artel: Westbrook, ME) -- Artel, a global leader in liquid-handling quality assurance, recently launched version 3.3 of its Pipette Tracker software. Tightly integrated with the Artel PCS (pipette calibration system), Pipette Tracker provides a total management system for quality…
FDA
(U.S. FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that a consent decree of permanent injunction has been filed against McNeil-PPC and two of its officers for failing to comply with current Good Manufacturing Practices’ (cGMP) requirements as required by…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
During the last couple of decades we have seen huge advances in laser trackers, portable arms, structured light scanners, laser scanners, photogrammetry devices, and other 3-D measurement technologies that have made accurate 3-D shop floor measurement more feasible than ever before. Each of…
Bruce McDuffee
If you’re in the business of manufacturing drugs, medical devices, nutraceuticals, or manufacturing or importing any product in the United States that falls under current Good Manufacturing Processes (cGMP) regulations, your facility will be inspected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- January U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $371.41 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S.…
Newton Research Labs
(Newton Research Labs: Newton, WA) -- Time-efficient surveys and precise measurements of larger underwater facilities, from bridge and pier substructures to smaller, submerged piping and valve assemblies, are now possible with a new underwater laser scanner, the M300UW, developed…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo Inc: Columbus, OH) -- With new WMC weigh modules, in-process control and embedded weighing is now possible in any critical instrument or system operation. These weigh modules feature the highest degree of miniaturization that support single or multisensor integration…
Numerical Algorithms Group
(The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd: Oxford, UK) -- Quality engineers, many of whom are already contending with slower performance of legacy applications originally developed for 32-bit processors that are now operating in 64-bit systems or supercomputer-level resources, can obtain a white…
